{"id":29468,"date":"2013-07-18T23:21:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T03:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=29468"},"modified":"2018-12-08T22:17:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T03:17:41","slug":"new-releases-july-19-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/07\/18\/new-releases-july-19-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"New Releases: July 19, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Turbo<\/a>1. Turbo (Opened Wednesday, Fox\/ Dreamworks, <\/strong>3,806 Theaters, <\/strong>96 Minutes, Rated PG): <\/strong>So, the summer of CGI animated fare continues with this film, the latest from Dreamworks.<\/p>\n

The film centers on a garden snail with the biggest dream of all–to race in the Indianapolis 500. This is hard to do consider it takes him the better part of a day to move across the sidewalk. Luckily, a freak accident occurs and he develops superspeed. His dream has gotten that much closer, but can he grab it in time?<\/p>\n

Dreamworks has built up quite a good track record as a quality alternative to Pixar. But there are a lot of CGI animated kiddie flicks coming out. With Planes <\/strong>in the pipeline, logic dictates that one of them has to bomb at the box office. And this is a crowded weekend….<\/p>\n

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\n\"red2\"<\/a>2. Red 2 (Lionsgate\/Summit Entertainment, 3,016 Theaters, 116 Minutes, Rated PG-13): <\/strong>The first of two comic book themed films opening this weekend. I don’t know if that is a sign of the comic book film’s health, the high point that comes before the inevitable fall, or just savvy marketing for the weekend of San Diego Comic-Con.<\/p>\n

The first Red<\/strong> was based on a Wildstorm comic book written by Warren Ellis and drawn by Cully Hamner. That series never got a sequel, but the film did. This one reunited the Retired, Extremely Dangerous team who must clear their name and find a missing nuclear device in Russia.<\/p>\n

I do like how this series is shaping up to be a high-rent Expendables<\/strong>. I mean, this film loses an Oscar Winner (Morgan Freeman) from the last one but picks up two more (Anthony Hopkins & Catherine Zeta-Jones). I wish more action films had that pedigree.<\/p>\n

And yes, I know that Mary-Louise Parker is the fourth-billed cast member. But I was having a hard time finding a poster that worked on the site and it’s Mary-Louise Parker. Get over it!<\/p>\n

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\"the-conjuring\"<\/a>3. The Conjuring (Warner Brothers, 2,903 Theaters, 112 Minutes, Rated R): <\/strong>If every true story actually resembled the film based on it, I’d say the population of the world would be halved and fear of a nuclear Armageddon would take a backseat to fear of what is in the barn in the back of the house.<\/p>\n

And it’s what’s in that barn that troubles the team of paranormal investigators (Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson). Based on the case files from the 1970’s of a real pair of parapsychologists, the husband and wife duo investigate a haunting in a barn. What they find is an entity so evil and so powerful that they might finally have met their match.<\/p>\n

The film reunites Wilson with his Insidious <\/strong>director James Wan, and has been getting a fair amount of buzz. And it is rated are as all good horror films should be. Maybe the fact that it provides a different form of entertainment than what is already in theaters will make it a success?<\/p>\n

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\"RIPD-poster2\"<\/a>4. R.I.P.D. (Universal, 2,852 Theaters, 96 Minutes, Rated Pg-13): <\/strong>Okay, I just realized something. Mary-Louise Parker has a role in both the comic book films released this weekend. It’s like the fates got together and created a film weekend just for me!
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This film has gotten tagged due to its similarities with Men in Black<\/strong>. While I called Pacific Rim <\/strong>being compared with Transformers <\/strong>unfair, this time the comparison is valid.<\/p>\n

Both films were adapted from obscure comics published by independent publishers (Although Dark Horse is much bigger than Aircel). Both feature a cocky, street wise cop (Ryan Reynolds in the Will Smith role), who discovers a hidden crime-fighting organization with a predominantly white color scheme. He is partnered with an older partner played by an Oscar-winning actor (Jeff Bridges instead of Tommy Lee Jones) to patrol the Earth and keep it safe from unearthly menaces with powers greater than the human.<\/p>\n

Of course, instead being cops who use alien technology to hunt aliens, they are dead cops who hunt spirits and other undead things.<\/p>\n

The film still seems like a hoot, but it is the low film on the totem pole in a very crowded week. I see it getting lost in the shuffle.<\/p>\n

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Two comic book movies? Opening the same weekend? Both starring Mary-Louise Parker? What is this world coming to!?!<\/div>\n

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