We have a couple
new releases this weekend that make it really feel like summer.
There's the horror-adventure remake people weren't especially
clamoring for but looks pretty good anyway and an original concept
meant to probably spawn a franchise, featuring one of the biggest
movie stars in the world and some top notch talent behind the camera.
Let's see what we've got in store for us.
Poltergeist
Director: Gil Kenan
Writer: David
Lindsay-Abaire
Starring: Sam
Rockwell, Rosemarie DeWitt, Saxon Sharbino, Kyle Catlett, Kennedi
Clements
The original Steven
Spielberg-produced (and probably directed) Poltergeist is
superb. It's scary, sure, but the Amblin sense of wonder is all over
it, as well. It's rollicking. This new version seems to go harder in
the horror direction, which could pay off as it seeks to distinguish
itself.
There's a lot of
hope that it will carve out its own path, with an especially adept
cast including two of our finest character/lead actors, Sam Rockwell
(Moon) and Rosemarie DeWitt (Mad Men, Kill the
Messenger) as the heads of the Bowen family. Rockwell's easy
charm and DeWitt's ability to appear calm despite every kind of inner
turmoil should pay off well as the supernatural wreaks havoc on their
family.
Tomorrowland
Director: Brad Bird
Writers: Damon
Lindelof, Brad Bird, Jeff Jensen
Starring: Britt
Robertson, George Clooney, Hugh Laurie
Brad Bird has made
some of the finest blockbuster movies of the last two decades, with
The Iron Giant, The Incredibles, and Mission:
Impossible: Ghost Protocol all reaching classic status upon
release. He also worked on the heyday of The Simpsons. He is a
filmmaker who knows how to wow. His writing partners on his newest
project are Damon Lindelof, co-creator of Lost, and Jeff
Jensen, who wrote obsessively intricate Lost
reviews for
Entertainment Weekly.
Despite my “it's the
journey, not the destination” love for the stories of The Island,
these two guys haven't had nearly the success as Bird. The hope is
that his voice shepherds the question asking tendencies of Lindelof
into a place of answers.
Relative
newcomer Britt Robertson heads the cast as a young girl in some sort
of legal trouble who meets George Clooney's genius inventor. Clooney
holds the key to a secret futuristic city called Tomorrowland, and
they go on an adventure there. Sounds pretty cut and dry. Works for
me.
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