Friday film roundup: no wild bores this week
This week’s film roundup from Past the Popcorn:
Top boxoffice be dogged… sometimes films are just bad. This week, though, there’s nary a howler in the bunch, dog days of the cinematic calendar though it be. Jeff Walls had a dandy week, catching the eye candy that is 300, the entertaining morality tale that is The Ultimate Gift, and the amusing if gender-bending Gray Matters (clearly not everyone’s cup of tea, but fairly well made nonetheless). And he ranked them in just about that order.
Jenn Wright also raves about the documentary Maxed Out–for its financial lessons, if not for its occasional spin. Kathy Bledsoe also liked the re-release of 1939’s The Rules of the Game, and Mike Smith was pleasantly tweaked by The Host, a Hong Kong monster flick.
Finally, Greg Wright interviewed Steve Stockman, the director of Two Weeks, who had some interesting thoughts about the interplay of business and art.
