Get wired this weekend
We’ve looked at books, music, crude drawings of teen girls and band geeks this week, and now let’s turn our attention to the screen with Friday Flicks. We’ll focus mostly on indie movies and what’s coming out the next Tuesday, and maybe even look at the occasional major release. (Some NoVa Poppers may, like me, be all about the animated “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” coming out next week. I’m hoping for a midnight showing on Thursday!)
The stoner comedy “Pineapple Express” has seen decent reviews so far, but no release gets higher this week than “Man on Wire.” The documentary follows the ballsy Frenchman Phillippe Petit, his obsession with the World Trade Center and his ensuing, death-defying act of walking between both towers on an illegally placed wire in 1974. He went from rooftop to rooftop, but what’s almost as impressive is what he had to do to get up there in the first place. The doc, which also makes for a mini-tribute to the grandiosity of those fallen skyscrapers, opens at the Cinema Arts Theatre in Fairfax, as does the psychological French thriller “Tell No One.” And at the AMC Loews Shirlington 7 in Arlington, the drama “Bottle Shock” stars Bill Pullman as an ex-attorney out to make the world’s perfect chardonnay, but in the meantime runs into financial trouble and has to repair the relationship with his estranged son (played by Chris Pine, who is Kirk in J.J. Abrams’ upcoming “Star Trek” film). Alan Rickman’s very bushy moustache may be worth the price of admission alone.
The DVD release list is highlighted by three TV shows on Tuesday: “The Wire – The Complete Fifth Season” wraps up the acclaimed HBO crime series with a focus on the Baltimore Sun, and of course Dominic West’s McNulty straddling the line between good cop and bad cop; “South Park – The Complete Eleventh Season” is the funniest volume yet, with the priceless “Imaginationland” trilogy and the “Guitar Queer-o” episode; and the third season of “Prison Break” hits on standard and Blu-ray DVD with a strike-shortened 13 episodes and Wentworth Miller in the pokey, needing to be broken out.
Have a great weekend! Let us know what’s up - email novapoppin@gmail.com.
August 12th, 2008 at 9:13 am
Oh man, I laughed so hard at the imaginationland Southpark episodes! (I’m the key? Can I not be the key?) That DVD may be a must-purchase item. Also, the Guitar Queer-o episode started a long-running joke with my husband and our friends about playing heroine hero. Now any addictive video game (World of Warcraft, anyone?) is referred to as heroine hero.