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Summer Movie Preview: August

Our picks for August’s must-see movies

AUGUST 21

 

INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (pictured above)

Why does Quentin Tarantino misspell Inglourious Basterds? Because he can. He’s Quentin Tarantino. Actually, the quirky director explained to Empire magazine, “Basterds, that’s just the way you say it.” But he remained mysteriously tight-lipped about what’s with the extra ‘u’ in Inglourious.

 

Tarantino’s WWII spaghetti western, which has been on his “to do” list for years, stars Brad Pitt as Lt. Aldo Raine, a southern redneck who assembles a band of Jewish soldiers — his basterds — to go out and kill as many Nazis as they can. And after they kill them, they take their scalps (Tarantino warns viewers to prepare for heaps and heaps of bloody gore).


The film is divided into five chapters — each of which has a different look, tone and feel — and revolves around the guerrilla basterds teaming with a German movie star (Diane Kruger) and a French resistance fighter (Melanie Laurent) to carry out a final act of vengeance against the Nazis.

 

JULIE & JULIA

Doubt co-stars Meryl Streep and Amy Adams reunite for this light-hearted film adaptation of Julie Powell’s book Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen. Adams plays Powell, who decides to spend one year replicating every recipe in Julia Child’s (Streep) legendary cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, using her small apartment kitchen as her cooking headquarters.

Release date: August 7

  

G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA

Transformers proved people would watch a movie featuring characters based on hard plastic toys. Hasbro’s G.I. Joe is the granddaddy of all action toys, although according to the movie’s director, Stephen Sommers (The Mummy), the film takes most of its cues from the G.I. Joe comic book. Dennis Quaid stars as Hawk, the commander of the Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity, a team of military operatives whose members include the studly Duke (Channing Tatum) and brainy Scarlett (Rachel Nichols). It’s their job to take down the evil organization known as Cobra.

Release date: August 7   

 


Jeremy Piven in The Goods: Live Hard,
Sell Hard

THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE

The long-awaited adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger’s bestseller stars Eric Bana as a Chicago librarian born with a genetic disorder that causes him to involuntarily travel through time, and many of his trips bring him into contact with his wife (Rachel McAdams) at different stages of her life.

Release date: August 14   

 

THE GOODS: LIVE HARD, SELL HARD

Jeremy Piven plays an eccentric salesman who’s brought in to help a used car lot sell its cars over the July Fourth long weekend. Look for an uncredited appearance from the film’s producer, Will Ferrell.   

Release date: August 14   

 

DISTRICT 9

Set in Joburg, South Africa, this futuristic flick sees aliens land in Africa only to be turned into slaves for the Multi-National United Company. Known as “non-humans,” the aliens plot to overthrow their human oppressors.

Release date: August 14   

 

 

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