The Tag Project
Here at CityBeat, we have a conflicted relationship with the films of summer. As good yupsters deep into art, culture and drinking, we should be totally into the art-house fare that gracefully graces our city between May and September.
We’re the sort that should lean up against the nearest bar and simply mock the hell out of the massive Hollywood blockbusters.
But we can’t.
Look, we just can’t help ourselves. We love seeing shit get blow’d up in new and expensive ways, by good-looking people with incredible bodies and awesome skin. It gets our motor running. So we’re taking a close look at the big summer movies, judging them in precisely the same way we examine a conga line of sorority girls drunkenly staggering home after a kegger, in what is really the only metric that counts: “Hot” or “Not.”
Now, don’t get us wrong; we know the popcorn movies have been focus-grouped and test-audienced for the lowest common denominator in hopes of maximizing the overseas box-office returns, so we’ve included a serious run-down of this summer’s other films, the indies, the documentaries and the foreign films. And we managed to get some famous and not-so-famous people on the phone to talk about their movies, too. Corey Feldman, who stars in a straight-to-DVD sequel to Lost Boys in July, spurned our advances, but directors Chris Carter (The X-Files: I Want to Believe) and Errol Morris (Standard Operating Procedure) were good enough to take our calls, as was Danny McBride, who is about to be really, really famous.
Um, who?
Read and see.
Our guide to the movies of summer
A list of upcoming films you may or may not want to miss
by Anders Wright
by Anders Wright
by Anders Wright
by Anders Wright
