The 2003 Summer Movie Preview
will headline the caper flick The Italian Job, which I'm afraid may fall through the cracks. And then of course we do have the smaller films in May which may be worth finding. Buffalo Soldiers is a military satire about U.S. soldiers in 1989 Berlin, and boasts a great looking cast ... Joaquin Phoenix, Anna Paquin, Scott Glenn, and Ed Harris.
Director Neil LaBute has a new film coming out, a twisted romance called The Shape of Things. John Malkovich makes his directorial debut with The Dancer Upstairs, which has already garnered rave reviews, and previews are certainly getting the word out about this Latin themed thriller. Philip Seymour Hoffman stars with Minnie Driver and John Hurt in the independent production Owning Mahowney. And an interesting documentary is scheduled to come out in May ... 70's filmmaking giants like Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, and others are interviewed for A Decade Under The Influence.
OSCAR OUTLOOK FOR MAY: Only technical nominations here, although Down With Love could maybe come up with something more if it surprises us. Definitely expect numerous technical nods for The Matrix Reloaded, unless it's forgotten by November when the final Matrix film comes out. X2 might have a shot at technical nods, but may be dwarfed by other blockbusters this year.
And that brings us to June. Probably the biggest event picture of June will be the long awaited big screen incarnation of The Hulk, another comic book brought to movie life. Relative unknown Eric Bana takes on the role of Bruce Banner in this film version directed by Ang Lee, a surprising choice to direct a comic book blockbuster. As some of you may know, the actual Hulk is computer animated, and many are worried whether it can be pulled off. I just saw the trailer the other day, and I'm not sure it's going to work. Computer animated characters still are not quite perfect ... Gollum in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers was our best achievement yet in computer animated characters in live action films, but I'm afraid The Hulk has to carry a film, and it doesn't look to me, right now anyway, that the computer generated Hulk will work, but we'll see ... it's still bound to do great business. Jennifer Connelly and Nick Nolte co-star.
Of course, June will be filled with more sequels. Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, and Lucy Liu will be
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