This Week in Independent Film

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In this dark comedy written and directed by David Ross a teenage babysitter (Katherine Waterston) becomes a madam arranging dates between her friends and the the married fathers of the neighborhood.  John Leguizamo, Cynthia Nixon, Lauren Birkell, Louisa Krause, Halley Wegryn Gross, Alexandra Daddario, and Andi Potamkin also star.  The girls get put to work in limited release in select cities on Friday.  Larger trailer available in the Full Diagnosis.

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Ellen Page stars as young Tracey who, while searching for her brother (Zie Souwand), finds herself trapped on a bus during a blizzard.  Ari Cohen, Ryan Cooley, and Kate Todd also star.  Adapted from the novel of the same name.  Check out the official site.  The film opens in limited release in select cities on Friday.  Larger trailer available in the Full Diagnosis.

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Iron Man

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  • Title: Iron Man
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“I want to protect the people I put in harm’s way.”

The film follows the life-changing events of weapons manufacturer and wealthy industrialist Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.).  After performing a weapons demonstration in the Middle East Stark is captured by terrorists and forced to design new weapons for their use.  In a last-ditch effort to save his life, Stark creates a armored suit, powered by the small power source keeping him alive, to escape and make his way home.

On arriving back in the states Stark proceeds to shut down the weapons manufacturing part of Stark Industries (which is most of the company), to the displeasure of longtime friend and business parter Obadiah Stone (Jeff Bridges), and begins a new project – one which will eventually be tabbed by local media as Iron Man.

Directed by Jon Favreau, who also has a small role casting himself as Happy Hogan, the film mixes action, state of the art special effects, humor, and drama to give us one of the better comic book films ever made.  This is a fanboy’s wet dream come to life.

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My Other Best Friend’s Wedding

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  • Title: Made of Honor
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“I want you to be my maid of honor.”
 
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After realizing he loves his best friend, Tom (Patrick Dempsey) decides to pledge his love.  The only trouble is Hannah (Michelle Monaghan) has just gotten engaged to a Scottish noble (Kevin McKidd) and has asked Tom to be her maid of honor.  Of course he accepts (leading to mayhem) and tries to win her for himself (leading to mischief).

What follows is exactly what you’d expect.  Tom struggles with his duties as maid of honor and his inability to stop the wedding and tell Hannah his true feelings.

Although the film isn’t awful, it lacks any spark or reason for us to care about these people.  Hannah doesn’t seem better off with Tom or Colin than she would be on her own.  And Tom’s sudden need to express his feelings reeks more of desperation than true love.

Monaghan and Dempsey are fine in the leads, but they come off more as good friends than characters who the audience should be rooting to get together.

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Free Comic Book Day

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Hey folks, this is just a friendly reminder from you RF pals that this Saturday (being the first Saturday in May) once again marks one of the coolest yearly events – Free Comic Book Day!  The annual event takes the awesomeness of comics and merges it with the greatness of all things free!  That’s right, show up at a comic shop and they give you free comics!  It’s that easy.

For more on the event, including a list of comics available and a search tool to find the nearest comic shop to your location, check out the official site.

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