{"id":21813,"date":"2012-08-23T23:30:02","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T03:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=21813"},"modified":"2018-12-08T22:20:55","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T03:20:55","slug":"new-releases-august-24-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/23\/new-releases-august-24-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"New Releases: August 24, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"1. Hit and Run (Opened Wednesday,Open Road Films, 2,870 Theaters, 100 Minutes, Rated R):\u00a0<\/strong>This film is a vanity project. And not a vanity project in the sense that Tom Cruise or Tom Hanks has an important work only their star power can bring to the screen vanity project, but rather a D-list celebrity wants to make a movie with his girlfriend vanity project.<\/p>\n

Upset that I called Dax Shepard, who wrote and co-directed this film, \u00a0a D-list celebrity? Okay, name me one A-list film he’s been in? The closest he’s come has been either\u00a0Zathura\u00a0<\/strong>or\u00a0When in Rome<\/strong> (where he worked with and possibly first met girlfriend Kristen Bell) and neither of those films made any cultural or box office impact.<\/p>\n

This film has a basic plot. Shepard’s character is in the witness protection agency, but goes on a road trip with his girlfriend (Bell). This brings him to the attention of the Feds and his old gang, both who want to catch up with him for different reasons.<\/p>\n

When the “funniest” scenes you put in the trailer, which should be the best scenes film so as to entice the audiences in, include a discussion about a character being raped in prison and a grown man dropping the F-bomb in front of small children, eh, I’m not really sold.<\/p>\n

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\"\"2. Premium Rush (Sony\/Columbia, 2,255 Theaters, 91 Minutes, Rated PG-13):\u00a0<\/strong>2012 is turning out to be the the year of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, or at least the last half of it is. Between this film, last month’s\u00a0The Dark Knight Rises<\/strong>, and the forthcoming\u00a0Looper<\/strong>, he has the makings of a Michael Caine\/Gene Hackman\/Jude Law type of omnipresence at the cineplexes.<\/p>\n

In this film he plays as bike\u00a0messenger\u00a0who gets a envelop he has to deliver across town in less that 90 minutes. Unfortunately, in addition to having to deal with crosstown traffic, he has to deal with a dirty cop who wants to steal the package from him. High-speed chasing ensues.<\/p>\n

Judging by the running time of the film, the action might unfold in “real-time.” That’s fairly interesting.<\/p>\n

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Two films involving chases–one in a car, on on a bike–highlight the begin of the dregs of the summer movie season.<\/div>\n

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