(Brian O’Halloran and Jeff Anderson in Clerks II) If someone woke up from a coma and looked at a listing of movies opening this week, they’d likely know right away that it’s Summer. We’ve got the effects-laden Ivan Reitman film with current hot actors playing broad comedy: My Super Ex-Girlfriend. We’ve got the computer animated [...]

(William H. Macy in Edmond) We’re becoming convinced that the Wayans brothers have invented some contraption that connects their toilet directly to projectors all over the world. How else do you explain crap like Little Man showing up on screens everywhere this week? Unfortunately, though, there’s not a whole lot else to look forward to. [...]

(Two NYC Documentaries) Pirates, pirates, pirates. We never really bought into the first one as the cultural phenomenon it was supposed to be, so we can’t claim to have very high expectations for — or even much interest in — Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. Johnny Depp is likely entertaining as usual, but, [...]

(Still from Superman Returns) There’s this little film called Superman Returns opening this week. We hear it’s about a man who can fly — and you’ll believe it. Really, though, do you think Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster ever imagined that nearly seventy years after they created their immigrant-who-makes-good-in-America hero for DC Comics, the world [...]

(Still from The Road To Guantanamo) It’s probably safe to assume that Click will rule the box office this weekend, but we’re really much more interested in Michael Winterbottom’s The Road To Guantanamo. The film — part documentary and part drama — is the story of the Tipton Three, three British Muslims who were detained [...]

   First up, a couple of sequels we won’t be touching with the tent poles the studios so desperately wish these films to be: The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift and Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties. Pure “sequel equals money” summer fodder, those two. Next, a couple of projects that look to be [...]

The Omen opened yesterday — an awkward Tuesday release — on 06.06.06. How utterly clever, eh? Well, we can’t claim to care much at all about a remake of a mediocre horror movie, especially when there’s a good number of quality-looking films opening. Pixar has a good track record of crafting amazingly-rendered animation that relies [...]

(Specialist Mike Moriarity in The War Tapes) We feel like we’ve been seeing trailers and other promotions for The Break-Up for about a year and a half now. And we still can’t say we have much desire to see it. We actually think that the Luc Besson-produced 13the District looks quite a bit more interesting, [...]

Memorial Day weekend means the Summer movie onslaught will now kick into high gear, opening salvos having already being fired by Mission Impossible III, Poseidon, and The Da Vinci Code. The highest profile release this week is X-Men: The Last Stand, supposedly the last in the X-Men franchise — not including possible Magneto and Wolverine [...]

A little film called The Da Vinci Code happens to open on Friday. Perhaps you’ve heard of it? The controversial, surely soon-to-be blockbuster is the highest profile release of the week, but for all you Opus Dei members out there boycotting the film, fret not: there are other options. Dreamworks’ Over The Hedge looks as [...]