film by brad hart
FOUr MOre NOT TO MISS THIS MONTH
Public Enemies
Based on Brian Burrough’s nonfiction book, Public Enemies is the new crime
thriller from director Michael Mann. It’s set during the great crime wave of
1933 and 1934, when the government’s attempts to stop Depression-era
criminal legends such as John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy
Floyd transformed J. edgar Hoover’s FBI into the country’s first federal police
force. Johnny Depp portrays John Dillinger, the charismatic bank robber
whose lightning raids made him the most wanted man in the country. Public
Enemies’ star-studded cast also includes Channing Tatum, Stephen Dorff,
Giovanni ribisi and Christian Bale as Melvin Purvis, the FBI agent chosen by J.
edgar Hoover to lead a manhunt to catch Dillinger.
Public Enemies is rated R and arrives in theatres on July 1.
The Big Bruno Brouhaha
Sasha Baron Cohen is accustomed to pushing boundaries. In his last hit film,
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,
the writer and actor orchestrated outrageous real-life situations that challenged
anti-Semitic and other stereotypes.
In his new movie, Bruno, Baron Cohen goes even further as he travels across the
country posing as a flamboyantly gay Austrian model on a quest to find himself.
Along the way he attempts to expose and sicken homophobes, embarrasses
celebrities, oh and names his new adopted black baby O.J.
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
However, questions and controversy have been raised about the film. Many are
The sub-zero heroes from the worldwide blockbusters Ice Age and Ice Age:
wondering whether Bruno is good or bad for gays and who the joke will actu-
The Meltdown are back, and once again on an incredible adventure. Ice Age:
ally be on—the homophobes or the homosexuals? Some gay rights groups have
Dawn of the Dinosaurs, is the latest installment for the hit franchise, which
begun a campaign against the upcoming comedy and worry that the Bruno char-
has grossed more than $1.2 billion around the world. The new film was fully
acter isn’t so much debunking the stereotypes of gay people as it is just making it
produced in 3-D, which is currently all the rage in animation. And as the title
easier, more appropriate, for people to laugh at them. There is much concern that
suggests, it introduces a new elements into the Ice Age world—dinosaurs.
a movie like Bruno reinforces an idea that gay men are silly, frivolous, outrageous
However, they will exist only in a mythical realm, which will help explain how
mincers who are vain and shallow at best and sex-crazed and oblivious at worst.
they could still be around during a period in time that many believe caused
Furthermore, several people strongly feel that Sacha Baron Cohen and Universal
their extinction. The Oscar-nominated Carlos Saldanha directed the picture
Pictures have a responsibility to remind the viewing public that this is intended to
that includes the voices of ray romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Simon
expose homophobia and not exploit it.
Pegg and Queen Latifah.
Bruno is rated R and arrives in theatres on July 10.
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs is rated PG and arrives in theatres on July 1.
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