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Thursday, September 24, 2009
What’s opening Friday, Sept. 25?
The last weekend of September brings us two sci-fi movies and a remake of an 80s musical - all of which are uncertain prospects. None of them has much in the way of advance buzz.
Fame: The musical remake is starting to look to me like a High School Musical imitation, so my interest is flagging. I do, however, have the original Alan Parker film at home from Netflix. I’ve never seen it all the way through; I hope to include it in my next What Are You Watching post?
Pandorum:Crew members aboard a spaceship wake up with no knowledge of their mission or their identities. Dennis Quaid is in the cast. I just can’t get a read on this one.
Surrogates: This is the best prospect of this week’s openings. Bruce Willis leads the cast as a man forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of surrogate robots. Jonathan Mostow directs, and I’ve liked his work, which includes Breakdown, U-571 and Terminator 3. My review will post Friday.
At the arthouses
The Neon opens Soul Power, a documentary about an overlooked music festival that took place amid the “Rumble in the Jungle” in the 70s. Neon also hosts the Downtown Dayton LGBT Film Festival. The Little Art opens Inglourious Basterds.
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