JULYFILM RELEASES
03 July Te Amazing SpidermanIt’s the other superhero film out this month, although don’t be expecting anything other than the formulaic from this one. Go see only if you are seduced by the 3D special effects.
05 July Katy Perry: Part of Me 3DOther than allowing schoolboys to snigger over which part of Katy they’d like to see in 3D the most, this looks awful. I wonder what else is on, is that new Batman film out yet?
13 July Ice Age: Continental Drift4th time out now, & this feels like a tired franchise for anyone other than the most committed of children. Hey, you know what else looks good?Te Dark Knight Rises. Go see that!
27 July Dr Seuss’ the LoraxTe Lorax returns to clean the streets of Gotham once more as a masked terrorist madman brings the city to its knees. Unless someone like Batman cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not!
DVDOF THE MONTH 21 JUMP STREET
Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum star in this action comedy based on the 80s TV show of the same name, and written by Hill and Michael Bacall (Scott Pilgrim Vs the World). Tey play officers Schmidt and Jenko who are members of the police’s Jump Street unit where officers with a youthful exterior are sent in undercover to the local high school, only to discover that dealing with criminals is nothing compared to reliving high school all over again as they struggle to infiltrate the local drug ring. Cue a series of proudly juvenile comedy set pieces that somehow gel together to create a film that is more than the sum of its parts as the two main characters find their roles inverted. Hill is as good as ever as the socially inept nerd
JULYDVD RELEASES
02 July John Carter Brilliant looking but overlong sci-fi epic about a man on Mars. Aliens fight and actors talk shite as the story goes from the inane to the preposterous. Sadly this is rubbish.
09 July God Bless AmericaBobcat Goldthwaite’s viciously hilarious critique of American culture is a must see. Tis movie peels back the layers of society like an onion to reveal its rotten core in a fantastically dark style.
23 July Bel AmiPeriod drama starring Robert Pattinson as a returning soldier who sleeps his way through the wealthy women of Paris in a film let down by its acting. Tis film lacks elegance and feels more like a trashy soap opera.
30 July Project X A film about a party that, much like this movie, seems like a good idea on paper but is sadly disappointing in reality.
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Schmidt, and Tatum provides him with the perfect straight man as smooth- yet-stupid ex-jock Jenko.Te duo works well, as together as they try to solve their own crisis of character as well as the case.Te script is funny and full of smart, knowing glances to 80s television that are amusing but not overplayed.Te supporting cast provide some great characters including Ice Cube as the classic shouty police captain and Ellie Kemper as a sex-starved chemistry teacher. Tere’s even the odd Depp shaped cameo from members of the original show. Tis reboot is handled with an air of genuine affection towards the kind of 80s action films and trash TV, whilst simultaneously poking fun at it.
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