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Magic Mike (2012)
A male stripper teaches a younger performer how to party, pick up women, and make easy money.
Director:Steven Soderbergh |
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The Buzz: This is Channing Tatum's year to prove he's a better actor than most of the material he has been handed thus far in his career; two of the five films he has coming out in 2012 are with director Steven Soderbergh, including this story inspired by his brief stint back when he was all abs and no filmography. Also shedding clothing in an attempt for relevancy is Alex Pettyfer, who was at the top of many casting lists before a pair of flops and his reported difficult personality cooled his fire; here, he will play a fictionalized version of young Tatum. Soderbergh completed a finished version of the film in, seriously, like a month.
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Madea's Witness Protection (2012)
A Wall Street investment banker who has been set up as the linchpin of his company's mob-backed Ponzi scheme is relocated with his family to Aunt Madea's southern home.
Director:Tyler Perry |
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The Buzz: After Good Deeds yielded Tyler Perry's second-worst opening weekend to date, his new Madea adventure was immediately slotted as its follow-up (and two Perry-backed projects were pushed to 2013). This is a man who creates his own options. And this cast, which includes Marla Gibbs, John Amos, and Doris Roberts, would make for a great new cycle of "Celebrity Apprentice".
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Ted (2012)
A story centered on a man and his teddy bear, who comes to life as the result of a childhood wish.
Director:Seth MacFarlane |
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The Buzz: I'm interested to see how Seth MacFarlane's humor translates to the big screen for myriad reasons; mainly, he probably isn't relying on à la minute pop culture references that have sustained his TV audience for over a decade. Less of a risk for MacFarlane or Mark Wahlberg, this is a huge gamble for Universal, whose own President and COO raised eyebrows late 2011 for admitting the studio makes some pretty cruddy movies.
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Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) - [6/27 -- limited]
Faced with her father's fading health and environmental changes that release an army of prehistoric creatures called aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy leaves her Delta-community home in search of her mother.
Director:Benh Zeitlin |
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The Buzz: There's something about indie filmmakers and the American South that entrances film festival audiences (David Gordon Green's initial projects and the recent Winter's Bone immediately come to mind). Benh Zeitlin's first film, cradled and caressed at Sundance and handed two awards, plays up the magical fantasy and feels more like a great movie made from inside a child's mindset. I hope to see more from Quvenzhané Wallis, the adorable and startlingly talented star of Zeitlin's triumphant debut.
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Take This Waltz (2011) - [limited]
A happily married woman falls for the artist who lives across the street.
Director:Sarah Polley |
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The Buzz: Another year, another Michelle Williams downer drama, and I mean that in a hotly anticipated way, especially since the notion of her being directed by Sarah Polley in a story inspired in part by a Leonard Cohen song is just plain lovely. Co-star Seth Rogen seems to be taking notes from Will Ferrell by mixing up genre choices when your comedy bits start feeling stale. And underneath Sarah Silverman's bitter and filthy sense of humor (which we love), there's a quite talented actress.
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People Like Us (2012) - [limited]
A man is tasked with delivering $150,000 of his deceased father's fortune to the sister he has never met.
Director:Alex Kurtzman |
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The Buzz: The writing team of Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are perhaps best loved for their Star Trek screenplay and cult TV show Fringe, but they do have their fair share of detractors who take the duo to task for their penchant for reboots and rehashed stories. People Like Us is the team's first straight drama, and Kurtzman makes his directorial debut with a project that seems like it could venture into Alexander Payne/Jason Reitman territory. If you don't quite buy the idea of Chris Pine as a leading man outside of action roles, you can always focus on Elizabeth Banks as his alcoholic sister or Michelle Pfeiffer playing their widowed mother.
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Neil Young Journeys (2011) - [limited]
This past May, Neil Young brought his solo tour to Toronto's Massey Hall, an iconic venue in the city of his birth.
Director:Jonathan DemmeStars:Neil Young |
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The Buzz: Jonathan Demme's fourth cruise-around with Neil Young is released in synch with Young's Americana record, an album of plugged-in folk-standard covers. While the documentary is nowhere as memorable as the Live at Massey Hall record, Young's cranky musings on the gentrification of everything is certainly most welcome in this household.
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