Kathryn Bigelow’s latest film, The Hurt Locker, certainly has caught my eye, but I’m still not sure if this film will be as good as it appears it will be. She’s made good films like Point Break and Strange Days, but also terrible films like Blue Steel and K-19: The Widowmaker. And the fanboys will hate me for this, but Near Dark is totally overrated. Hopefully, though, this ends up being another one of her good films.
Interest level: Rising
The Hurt Locker will open exclusively on July 10th at the Minneapolis Uptown Theatre.
It is hard for me to focus on movie recommendations this week. You see I found out last week that a local theater will be showing a 70mm print of 2001: A Space Odyssey and I’m having a bit of a problem getting that out of my mind. Sure it’s not for another month, but still, this is a 70mm print we are talking about. The Holy Grail of cinemaphiles and now I will finally have a chance to see it. Go me.
So as you can see DVD releases seem a little dry to me this week, especially with the rather distasteful Juno coming out. Me, I like my rom-com’s sweet, innocent, and with a side of sex toys which is why I am recommending Lars and the Real Girl. A Frank Capra film if ever their was one, only not by Capra nor do I think he’d like the comparison because he was a Fascist. No he was not, that was a lie.
As for theaters I’m less then impressed by the mainstream films coming out. Street Kings headlines which stars Keanu Reeves as a police detective. Maybe if his name was Johnny Utah I’d be intrigued by this premise but really, who the hell cares? What you should care about is break dancing. Excuse me, B-boying/B-girling. For this week marks the release of Planet B-Boy, a documentary on the awesomeness that is the Electric Boogaloo at the 2005 Battle of the Year. Need I say more?
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