Thursday, June 25, 2009

Summer Movie Releases - 6/26/09

The Hurt Locker

One the best reviewed films of the year apparently has director Kathryn Bigelow at the top of her game. She's easily the best female action director ever (Point Break, Blue Steel). Some unknowns (Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty) are members of a bomb dismantling team in Iraq. It's said to be extremely tense. Guy Pearce, David Morse, and Ralph Fiennes turn in supporting roles.

Cheri

Dangerous Liaisons, Michelle Pfeiffer's first (and last) film with director Stephen Frears remains exciting and involving even 21 years later. It also gave John Malkovich and Uma Thurman careers that remain valid today. Here's hoping Frears regains some of that magic. Or if not as great as that film or The Grifters, I'll settle for High Fidelity or The Queen level goodness.


My Sister's Keeper

It looks like Alec Baldwin and Cameron Diaz play a married couple with 2 daughters, one of which gets cancer. Tensions and tough decisions arise and everyone is tested. Sounds like a lifetime movie with A-list stars. If there's one thing that challenges my faith in a deity, it's kids with cancer.

1 comment:

Lawyer said...

MSK looks like the worst movie in the world. Some things don't need to be put into fiction - they happen enough in real life. My eldest daughter asked me why God made tornadoes last week....nice how the little people get right at the heart of the matter so quickly.

I'm in for Hurt Locker - cool director and cast - and somebody other than David O. Russell has to be able to produce a good and intelligent Iraqi war film.