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Summer Movie Preview: June

Our picks for June’s must-see movies

JUNE 19 

 

YEAR ONE (pictured above)

You’d think we’d be frustrated with Michael Cera for falling back on the same sweet, shlubby character he perfected in Arrested Development — and has repeated in every film since — for the biblical comedy Year One. But somehow seeing George Michael dressed in a loincloth and with Metallica hair trying to survive in ancient times just makes the movie that much funnier.


Cera and Jack Black play a couple of bumbling hunters who are kicked out of their village, and then travel through the ancient world coming across such well-known dudes as Cain (Arrested Development’s David Cross) and Abel (Paul Rudd), and Abraham (Hank Azaria) and Isaac (Christopher Mintz-Plasse).


The film, which harkens back to Mel Brooks’ History of the World: Part 1 and Monty Python’s Life of Brian, was co-written and directed by SCTV alum Harold Ramis, whose career has certainly been rejuvenated by his association with the Judd Apatow gang. Ramis had parts in the Apatow-directed Knocked Up and Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, and now holds the top job in this summer blockbuster produced by the current King of Comedy.

 

THE HANGOVER

If you’re making a movie about characters that get really drunk and do something catastrophic they won’t remember the next day, be sure to set it in Vegas. This time, Sin City welcomes soon-to-be-married Doug (Justin Bartha) and his groomsmen (Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis) for one last night of pre-wedding partying. But the next morning the boys wake to find Doug’s missing, there’s a tiger in their bathroom and a baby in their closet.

Release date: June 5


LAND OF THE LOST

In a loose re-do of the 1970s TV series, Will Ferrell is scientist Dr. Rick Marshall, whose belief in time warps makes him a laughing stock. When Marshall, his assistant (Anna Friel) and a survivalist (Danny McBride) are sucked through a “space-time vortex” and spit into an alternate world filled with lizard people, giant crabs and dinosaurs, he’s proven right. But in order to gloat, he’ll have to get home.

Release date: June 5

 

MY LIFE IN RUINS

Nia Vardalos returns to her strength — being Greek — to play Georgia, a romantically challenged travel guide who spends her days showing North American tourists around Greece’s most romantic sites.

Release date: June 5   

 


Denzel Washington in The Taking
of Pelham 1 2 3

IMAGINE THAT

His Oscar-nominated Dreamgirls performance gradually fading from memory, Eddie Murphy once again settles into a family comedy, this time playing an overworked financial exec who all but ignores his daughter (Yara Shahidi) — until he realizes her imaginary friends are full of valuable insider information that’s key to saving his career.

Release date: June 12


THE TAKING OF PELHAM 1 2 3

A remake of the tense as a tripwire 1974 film, this update stars John Travolta as Ryder, an arch criminal (with the goatee to prove it) who hijacks a New York subway train and holds its passengers for ransom. Denzel Washington plays the subway dispatcher forced to play hero when Ryder wants to swap him for all the passengers on the train.

Release date: June 12

 

THE PROPOSAL

Follow closely. American actor Sandra Bullock plays a nasty Canadian book editor working in New York. Her visa is denied and she’s about to  be sent back to Canada, so pretends to be engaged to her American assistant (Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds) in order to stay in the States. Too bad Miss Canada’s been so cold to her poor gopher all these years.

Release date: June 19

 


Cameron Diaz and Sofia Vassilieva in
My Sister's Keeper

TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN

Filming locations ranged from Pennsylvania to Paris to Luxor (the one in Egypt, not the Vegas hotel) for this sequel to 2007’s blow-’em-up action pic Transformers. This time, Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) has information about the Transformers’ ancient origins that puts him in grave danger. But he can take solace in the fact that Decepticon forces need to capture him alive.

Release date: June 24


MY SISTER’S KEEPER

Actor/director Nick Cassavetes (The Notebook) steps behind the lens for this cautionary medical drama that stars Abigail Breslin as Anna, a child conceived to be a donor for her sick sister. But after years of painful procedures, Anna enlists the help of a lawyer (Alec Baldwin) to become emancipated from her parents (Cameron Diaz, Jason Patric) so she can make her own decisions.

Release date: June 26

 

SPECIAL EVENTS ON THE BIG SCREEN


WWE-PAY-PER-VIEW

Extreme Rules

Sun., June 7, 8 p.m. ET


PHEDRE

Helen Mirren stars in this production of the Jean Racine tragedy mounted by the National Theatre U.K.

Thurs., June 25, 7 p.m. local time


THE METROPOLITAN OPERA

The Audition

A feature film documenting the final week of the 2007 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions

Live: Sat., June 6, 1 p.m. ET

Encore: Sat., June 15, 7 p.m. local time


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