With Star Trek, the summer movie season arrived with a bang and so, naturally, The DC Film Society hosts their Coming Attractions Trailer Night at E Street Cinema TONIGHT (May 19th!!) @ 7 PM. Tickets are $5 for members and $8 for everyone else (which is probably you). You’ll see the trailers from all the summer blockbusters, hear film critics dissect the trailers, and you get to help the Hollywood marketing machine by voting for your favorite and least favorite trailers. Your ballots will be sent to the big studios! Your opinion will matter! Psych!

We can never make it to these but we enjoy trailers (and especially big, shiny, expensive ones) so we alway try and offer some help as to what WE feel will be worth your 10 dollars in ticket money + 50 bucks in concessions this summer.

K?
K.

Presumably funny movies:

BRUNO

In which Sascha Baron Cohen takes his lovable, lost Borat character on another trip through the US.
Oh wait-that was SO 2006.
It is 2009 now so we must make fun of lovable, lost gay italian fashion correspondents named Bruno on their FIRST trip through the US.

verdict: you've seen this before but if you thought it was funny the first time maybe you'll think it is funny the 100th time too?

HANGOVER
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Kind of like "Very Bad Things" but with babies and Zach Galifanakis.

verdict: AWESOME

MY LIFE IN RUINS

Nia Vardalos returns to milking her "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" heritage joke. Here she plays Georgia, who returns to Greece to find her "KEFI" (Greek for MOJO!). Kind of like a "How stella got her groove back" for middle aged, white women.but for middle class Caucasian women.

verdict: almost as embarassing as "Mamma mia". You're buying your Mom this for Christmas though, because she will think it is so "funny and kooky".

I LOVE YOU BETH COOPER

The high school valedictorian (small in stature, big nose...all the movie nerd pre-req's are present) is in love with Beth Cooper (or, should I say-cheerleader from Heroes) and announces so during the graduation speech. Now it is the night AFTER Graduation and it is going to be a night neither one of them (or her beefy, older, military boyfriend) will ever forget. That actually sounds kind of wrong.

verdict: wants to be at least as good as "Can't hardly wait" but looks like its slipping into "Girl Next Door" territory. I'll pass.

Movies you think will be funny BUT....

FUNNY PEOPLE
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Its the new Apatow movie. Seth Rogen is in it. Jason Schwartzman is in it. Adam Sandler is in it. Leslie Mann is in it. Doctors with German accents are in it. HOW COULD THIS NOT BE FUNNY? (Adam Sandler aside, naturally). But it actually looks like a heartwarming dramedy about people who ARE funny that is NOT necessarily funny. HOW META.

verdict: sure? why not? maybe see it on netflix?

SEQUELS:

This year brings us: Transformers 2, Terminator 2076, Harry Potter the final frontier and the 2nd Night at the Museum. Against better judgement I really do want to see them all. You do too, don't even try to deny it:

TOKEN HORROR MOVIE:

DRAG ME TO HELL:

Alison Lohman is finally going to pay for being in "White Oleander". The movie involves a hex, accents, burning in hell for eternity and Sam Raimi is directing.

verdict: I will watch this through a loosely knit scarf and love every second of it

FUCKING AMAZING PIXAR MOVIE:
UP

A grumpy old man and a teeny, over eager boy scout go on an adventure. In a floating house.

verdict: I am so excited to see this the anticipation is killing me. If there is one movie you see in the movie theatres this summer-let it be this. Promise? PROMISE!

AND THE BEST MOVIE OF THE SUMMER:

PUBLIC ENEMIES

Michael Mann directs Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, Billy Crudup and everyone else you ever wanted to see in a movie in a story of John Dillinger and what it took to catch him or not catch him.Otis Taylor provides the soundtrack. I swoon for 2.34 minutes non-stop (official trailer is not embeddable, btw, but you can enjoy it here)

verdict:Orderly line starts here.

Excited yet?