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Reel Talk The Room
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Swearnet
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Ghostbusters
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As Above So Below
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The Dog
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People just can’t get enough of The Trailer Park Boys. (I can’t front; I still find the shows and movies mostly hilarious. Oh rural Canadian upbringing…) The gang’s latest movie Swearnet isn’t a Trailer Park Boys entry per se – this one gets all meta with the boys playing themselves. There’s also some sort of plot probably not that it’ll really matter – a movie called Swearnet will be filled with swearing which is a shortcut to comedy gold.
If you haven’t seen Ghostbusters enough to last a lifetime (and who has?) the action comedy classic is returning to theatres in a new 4K restoration. This is probably the best the film will ever look and to see it you’ll have to hit the theatre. (Nerd aside: the 4K blu-ray hits home video in a couple of weeks yes but the image gets compressed unless you have a TV to support it. So see it on the big screen instead.)
It feels like we haven’t had a slick forgettable shaky-cam horror flick in ages. So I’ll be at the theatre this weekend watching As Above So Below.
The Globe has two great looking docs opening this weekend. Ease your social conscience with HBO’s The Case Against 8 about the fight to overturn California’s proposition banning gay marriage then check out this weekend’s best bet The Dog about John Wojtowicz the would-be bank robber and real life character behind Sidney Lumet’s shaggy ’70s classic Dog Day Afternoon.
If you haven’t seen space ghoul Tommy Wiseau’s transcendentally hilarious and insane vanity project The Room by now well… you should. It’s like The Rocky Horror Picture Show of our generation. (At least you’ll know what everyone’s talking about.) The Fifth Reel presents the flick tomorrow night at The Plaza along with a performance by The Cable Knits. The interactive shows aren’t necessarily the best way to experience the flick for the first time – the movie is so hilarious and weird on its own that you’ll miss it with everyone yelling at the screen and throwing shit everywhere. Otherwise you know what you’re in for.
