Jul 23 2009 It's Coming Attractions Time!
What film will you see with your significant other this weekend, prolonging your dying relationship with two more hours of mutual silence? Here are some options:
G-Force
Director: Hoyt Yeatman
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Steve Buscemi, Zach Galifianakis, Tracy Morgan, Will Arnett, Bill Nighy, Sam Rockwell--in other words, people who, besides Nic Cage, you'd wish better for.
Good if you want to see: talking guinea pigs as spies, for whatever reason.
Orphan
Director: Jaume Collet-Sera
Starring: Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, and introducing Isabelle Fuhrman as Orphan
Good if you want to see: a convoluted argument against adoption; an ending that, from what I've heard, will leave you somewhat confused and unfulfilled
The Ugly Truth
Director: Robert Luketic
Starring: Gerard Butler, Katherine Heigl
Good if you want to see: Romance! Comedy! Misogyny!
Answer Man
Director: John Hindman
Starring: Jeff Daniels, Lauren Graham
Good if you want to see: Romance! Comedy! Jeff Daniels as the eponymous answerer who actually doesn't have all the answers!
In the Loop
Director: Armando Iannucci
Starring: Peter Capaldi, Tom Hollander, Gina McKee, James Gandolfini, Anna "MY GIRL Chlumsky
Good if you want to see: a Middle East war comedy of errors, of sorts.
May 1 2008 'My Girl' Starring in New, Non-'My Girl' Movie
Around 1991, I couldn't have been the only one with a massive crush on My Girl star Anna Chlumsky. Someone is with me on this, right? Looking back at pictures of the then ten-year-old, I'm not entirely sure what I saw in that gap-toothed grin (aside from someone closer to my age than Debbie Gibson and Vanna White, and someone willing to kiss Macauley Culkin's all-too-familiar nebbish, bee-phobic character), but we were definitely in love. And it was real.
Anyway, after a nearly ten-year hiatus, it seems she's back, looking again crush-worthy and getting bit parts on various NBC series. And now she's starring in BBC Films' In the Loop with James Gandolfini and Steve Coogan. It's not quite My Girl 3: Remembering the Bee Attack, but it's something:
Gandolfini will play a U.S. general in the unofficial adaptation of the BBC series "The Thick of It," which parodies the inner workings of U.S. and British government agencies and their international relations in a tale of war-hungry politicians. Chlumsky plays a State Department assistant and Rache ("United 93") is an undersecretary of state, and Coogan ("Hamlet 2") plays a disgruntled U.S. citizen.
Look below the cut for the original My Girl trailer, and let Chlumsky remind you why you fell in love with her as she seductively sashays across her porch. Warning: it will make you feel sort of dirty if you're no longer nine.
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