This Friday we have The Croods, the cave family working hard to invent civilization as we know it. I enjoyed the various trailers, and think this one should be quite amusing. And let’s face it, I’ll watch anything made by Dreamworks.
The obvious choice would be The Incredible Burt Wonderstone this week, with some great comedians doing an excellent job of showing us exactly how professional magicians deal with the real world. The cast for this flic is amazing, I can not imagine the creators getting all these excellent actors assembled for the project if they didn’t have a story worth telling. But it is not the only offering this time around; Vanishing Waves is in very limited release, but it has already won a ton of awards on the Film Festival circuit. It is about making neuro-enhansed real time contact with a coma patient, and exploring all the ways that might go in a non-physical environment. And then there is Noise Matters, which I swear reminds me of nothing so much as the comically brilliant indi film from Sweden, The Sound Of Noise. The core of both films center around people who take what most folks hear as noise, and weave them into complex musical presentations of scope and beauty. Where the films go from that starting point is radically different, but they do seem to share a bit of an attitude no matter how much they diverge.
There is a new trailer for the movie After Earth, the father/son adventure with Will and Jaden Smith. This one will be on the big screen on June 7th, and looks more interesting with each new trailer they release.
There is really only one choice this weekend: Oz the Great and Powerful. Based on the Oz books of L. Frank Baum, it is a prequel to the 1939 classic Judy Garland film, telling the story that came before. I am so ready for this one, and will definitely be doing the IMAX 3D showing!
Yep, they are doing Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2, and it could be even sillier than the first one, based on the trailer. It should be out come September, and since they don’t seem to have the website on line yet, I just linked back to the first one.
This week’s best bet is Jack the Giant Slayer, which started life as Jack and the Beanstalk but veered off in a new direction pretty quickly. There is also The Frankenstein Theory, which has the interesting premise that Mary Shelly’s book was not a work of fiction. For myself, I will be at Jack, because it looks like a lot more fun.