OK, you caught us: Houstonist has a secret wish to fufill all your entertainment needs. In that vein, we're instituting a movie calander! You can just call us "entertainment guru". Here's what's opening on your local silver screen this weekend....
Miami Vice, starring Colin Farrell and Oscar winner Jaime Foxx (Ray), headlines this week's openings, directed by Michael Mann (Heat, Collateral), who was the guiding light behind the 80s TV series. Mann is known for the gritty performances that he brings out of pretty-boy actors (Tom Cruise in Collateral , Val Kilmer in Heat.) Reviews for this violent, stylish neo-noir have been strong so far: Newsweek says it "delivers the thrills, atmosphere, and romance it promises".....
If something a bit lighter is more your speed, check out Little Miss Sunshine, which boasts a fine ensemble cast including Greg Kinnear and Toni Collette (The Sixth Sense), and is about a diverse and dysfunctional family on a roadtrip to enter the youngest member (Abigail Breslin, the little girl from Signs) in a pageant. Though it may sound family friendly, keep the kids away--this one's full of raunchy humor but has received strong reviews--it's supposed to be one of Oscar-nom Collette's finest performances and manages to walk to line between just-affecting-enough and too sentimental with ease......
While you watch one of the above flicks, your teenager will be standing in line to see John Tucker Must Die, in which a group of girls (including Mean Girls' Brittany Snow and singer Ashanti) team up to get revenge on their cheating mutual boyfriend (played by Desperate Housewives heartthrob Jesse Metcalf). Though it hasn't been screened for critics (Danger, Will Robinson! Bad sign!) the previews look like fun--a return, perhaps, to the mediocre-but-amusing teen comedies of the late nineties.....For the youngest family members, Ant Bully, which loks to us like Warner Brother's attempt to remake the superior Antz, will beckon. It's the story of a boy who..um...becomes an ant...and learns about togetherness and the values of teamwork and conformity. We're thinking Communist plot, ourselves......One final option is Woody Allen's latest, Scoop , a comedy being dismissed as trifling but amusing by critics and starring the lovely Scarlett Johansson and Hugh Jackman (minus, we assume, his Wolverine-style claws.)
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