The To-Do List! 7/24/09

It's Friday which means it's time for the To-Do List, where I take stock of all the movies I intend to see for the week. Why do I do this? It's as much for my benefit as anybody, since it gives me the chance to structure the week's routine. I gotta find a way to wedge in enough time for video games, pro wrestling, drunken hook-ups, and the hours I spend staring blankly at my fantasy football team. Ok, that's a bit of an exaggeration. I don't play that many video games anymore.

With Comic-Con in full swing and most of the biggest movies left on the radar either screening there or previewing, precious little came out this week worth mentioning. The one major film I actually give a crud about, Orphan, I already saw. That leaves me with a couple also-rans, one hilarious looking Brit-com, and not much else. Hopefully I can make my way to a screening or two to fill-in the blanks.



From the first time I saw the extremely vulgar, star-laden trailer for In The Loop, I knew it was gonna be at the top of this list. Based on a British sitcom, The Thick of It, it's a satirical look at the attempts by the United States and the UK to manufacture a war with the Middle East. The trailer was full of whip smart dirty one-liners. If the film is half as brilliant, it's sure to be one of my favorites of the year. In The Loop stars James Gandolfini, Anna Chlumsky(from My Girl! She's all grown up and hot now!), Steve Coogan, and Tom Hollander. You can find In The Loop playing right now at Landmark E Street Cinema in the DC/Metro area.



Romantic comedies like this don't come around that often. I'd like to think my review of 500 Days of Summer says it all. I loved it. I will watch it again and again, and already have it pre-ordered on Amazon. I even got the soundtrack. Tomorrow I'll be hosting my first solo Meetup over at Regal Gallery Place in DC to see it again. If you're interested in joining us, you can do so by clicking right here.

What else is out there?



I had a lot of fun with Orphan, even though it's a fairly run-of-the-mill bad seed flick. I know a couple people who will surely dig it, and I might tag along to make sure I didn't miss anything.

Also out is Gerard Butler and Katherine Heigl hamming it up in The Ugly Truth, which to me looks like everything I resent about the modern romantic comedy. And a bunch of gerbils band together to fight evil in G-Force. No word on whether said evil can be found up Richard Gere's ass.