Angels & Demons
If I could describe The Da Vinci Code in one word it'd be: mediocre. Not awful. Not awful. Just kinda there. The book was such an engaging, exciting, thought provoking read while the film just kinda feels chopped to smithereens. Angels and Demons, while in the novelizations is a prequel to Code, the film version is being played up as a sequel. I already don't like that idea. I didn't read the book this time around, so maybe I'll be more receptive this time around. It certainly looks like a darker, more action-oriented plot than the previous film was. I hope they explain why Sophie, played by the beautiful Audrey Tatou, isn't in this one. I miss her already.
Management
Jennifer Aniston appears to be trying to recapture the indie cred she once had after The Good Girl. Honestly, I think this movie looks like a turd. She's a traveling saleswoman(huh? Her?) who has a hook up with some loser motel employee over a bottle of complimentary wine(courtesy of the "Management"), and he basically stalks her cross country trying to get back with her. Everything from the lousy billboard, showing Steve Zahn with his hand on Aniston's ass, to the bland unfunny trailer tells me this will stink. I've heard some people trying to say that this will be the indie darling of the summer. Those people are wrong. And yet I'll see it, and hope I'll come away surprised.
The Limits of Control
I should've seen this already, but I've been disheartened by the abysmal reviews of Jim Jarmusch's latest travelogue/crime caper. I'm a huge Jarmusch fan, but even I have to admit that this film looks boring, despite the crazy talented cast at it's disposal. Tilda Swinton, Bill Murray, Gael Garcia Bernal. It should be fantastic. However the painful experience I had at Jarmusch's equally star-studded Broken Flowers a couple of years ago is still fresh in my mind.
Other movies on my list include Rudo y Cursi, featuring the reunion of Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna. It's the first time the two have paired up since Y tu Mama Tambien. This is the story of two very different Mexican siblings who become rivals in the world of professional soccer. Probably worth seeing just on the acting and production talent alone(it's directed by Carlos Cuaron). And if opportunity permits(it won't) I'll finally get around to seeing Goodbye Solo, but I've been trying to do that for weeks now with no success.
The Brothers Bloom, the most anticipated movie of the year for me as everyone probably already knows, is in limited release as of today but is not due to hit the DC area for another couple of agonizing weeks! Please let there be a screening!
