The Be-All, End-All Guide To Summer Movies
You find time for them all? Fans of the summer blockbuster, you'll be busy with a DC Comics adaptation, a Michael Bay f/x extravaganza, Captain America , a remake of Conan the Barbarian , and yet another Final Destination .Star vehicles abound including the Tom Hanks-Julia Roberts recession buster Larry Crowne , Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford swaggering through Cowboys & Aliens , and James Franco in a Planet of the Apes prequel. Did we mention that Justin Timberlake is having a busy summer?
Indie-minded filmgoers, this summer promises more than you might expect – new films from John Sayles, documentarian Errol Morris, Miranda July, and a debut from Vera Farmiga.
Some promising pics in other categories: a comedy teaming Steve Carrell and Ryan Gosling; Rachel Weisz as a whistleblower; and the super-creepy thriller based on a soldier forced to have surgery so he could become the body double for Uday Hussein.
Here, categorized for easy-reading (we hope), are some of the summer's most notable films. Please note: Release dates are subject to change.
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Green Lantern – What would summer be without a DC Comics superhero? Martin Campbell, who directed the winning Bond classic Casino Royale , helms this highly anticipated flick. The busy Ryan Reynolds plays the green crusader. (June 17)
Transformers — Dark of the Moon – Another inevitability of summer is a special effects mash-up directed by Michael Bay. This third part of a trilogy, in 3D, finds Shia LeBeouf, Josh Duhamel, and Tyrese Gibson re-engaged in robot wars. (July 1)
Captain America: The First Avenger – Every boy's fantasy: Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) is too scrawny for military service, so he volunteers for a scientific experiment that transforms him into Captain America, a six-pack-sporting superhero. His nemesis: Hugo Weaving's Nazi weapons maker. Joe Johnston ( The Wolfman ) directs. (July 22)
Final Destination 5 – Yes, the fifth one. Why keep calling them final ? (August 5)
Conan the Barbarian – Jason Momoa is the latest glowering, second-cousin-of-a-troglydite to bare a well-muscled chest in service to box office grosses. Rose McGowan co-stars in Marcus Nispel's remake.
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they did in 1978 with Superman, where they had [Marlon] Brando and Glenn Ford and Ned Beatty and all these fantastic actors in even small parts', which was an exotic idea for a superhero movie at the time," he told the LA Times earlier this year.
Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, Ned Beatty and Glenn Ford. Donner will also touch on his other films, among them the “Lethal Weapon” movies, “The Goonies” and “The Omen.” The first film will screen at 4 pm The Q&A will be 6:30-7:30 pm.
Star vehicles abound including the Tom Hanks-Julia Roberts recession buster Larry Crowne, Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford swaggering through Cowboys & Aliens, and James Franco in a Planet of the Apes prequel. Did we mention that Justin Timberlake is
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Book review: 'Glenn Ford: A Life,' warts and all | Projections
He was easygoing and charming on camera, but private and reserved off. He was born in Canada but became such an iconic figure on screen that fellow actor Sidney Poitier said of him, “He is a genuine American movie star.”
Glenn Ford might not have gained the lofty status and respect of such Hollywood titans as Clark Gable, James Stewart or Henry Fonda, but in a career that featured roles in such classics as “The Blackboard Jungle,” “Gilda,” “Jubal,” “The Big Heat,” “3:10 to Yuma” and “The Courtship of Eddie’s Father,” he certainly ranks among cinema’s most versatile, durable and endearing leading men.
Now Ford, one of the last old-school leading men of Hollywood’s defunct studio system, gets an intimate insider’s biography, “Glenn Ford: A Life” (University of Wisconsin Press, $24.95), written by the actor’s only child, Peter Ford.
Son of Glenn Ford and dancer Eleanor Powell, Peter Ford writes an expectedly celebratory account of his father’s eventful life and career. But this biography isn’t merely a PR job, as the writer offers up an honest and clear-eyed assessment of his father’s shortcomings, as well as his impressive career.
Drawing on the Ford family collection of diaries, letters, audiotapes, unpublished reminiscences and rare candid photographs – plus interviews with family, friends and professional colleagues – Peter Ford assembles a remarkably frank and revealing portrait of his father as a driven actor, an American patriot and military veteran, a loving family man and a mercurial Hollywood man about town.
While much of the book focuses on Ford’s 60-plus years in movies, his versatile array of roles from westerns to romantic comedies to hardboiled crime pictures and dramas, and his long marriage to tap-dance star Powell, the son doesn’t blink at revealing his father’s wild side and many infidelities.
At various times, Ford was linked to such leading ladies as Joan Crawford, Dinah Shore, Brigitte Bardot, Connie Stevens, Debbie Reynolds, Hope Lang and Judy Garland. The biographer gives special attention to his father’s romantic roundelay with an aggressive and somewhat predatory Bette Davis.
But Ford’s decades-long, on-and-off relationship with “Gilda” co-star Rita Hayworth gets the deepest attention from the author. Apparently, it was a serious, tumultuous and complex relationship that eventually drew the ire of other Hayworth paramours and mentors, including Orson Welles and Columbia’s tyrannical Harry Cohn.
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