{"id":33539,"date":"2014-05-08T23:59:23","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T03:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=33539"},"modified":"2014-05-08T22:25:12","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T02:25:12","slug":"new-releases-may-9-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/08\/new-releases-may-9-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"New Releases: May 9, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Neighborsposter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-33546\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Neighborsposter-189x300.jpg\" alt=\"Neighborsposter\" width=\"189\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Neighborsposter-189x300.jpg 189w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Neighborsposter.jpg 525w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/><\/a>1. Neighbors (Universal, 3,279 Theaters, 96 Minutes, Rated R):\u00a0 <\/strong>Back in 1981, John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd co-starred in a film called <strong>Neighbors. <\/strong>That film featured a suburban man whose peaceful life was interrupted when a wild neighbor moved in (In a reversal of type, Aykroyd played the wild card, Belushi played the nebbish suburbanite). Audienceswere expecting a wild and ribald film from the pair. What they got was a weird and creepy big budget art film.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s looks like that audience might be getting what they expected out of this version. The plots are similar, only this time, it&#8217;s a frat house that&#8217;s moving into suburbia. Seth Rogen plays a new father who must battle with a fraternity led by Zac Efron that has moved in next door.<\/p>\n<p>It does provide an interesting take on the whole battling neighbors genre. But would a frat house really move into the suburbs? And wouldn&#8217;t Rogen be partially to blame for living so close to a university?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/v.traileraddict.com\/82305\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/legendofozposter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-33544\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/legendofozposter-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"legendofozposter\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>2. Legends of Oz: Dorothy&#8217;s Return (Clarius Entertainment, 2,641 Theaters, 88 Minutes, Rated PG): <\/strong>Speaking of Belushi and Aykroyd, here is Dan partnered with John&#8217;s brother Jim&#8211;in an animated film. Would this have been John Belushi&#8217;s fate if he lived? Gawd, I hope not.<\/p>\n<p>So, this is yet another Wizard of Oz themed film, one of many that might be coming after the success of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/01\/01\/2013-in-review-what-the-top-ten-grossers-say-about-the-state-of-cinema\/\">Oz, the Great and Powerf<\/a>ul <\/strong>last year. The film is a sequel to that film, in a way, as Dorothy has to return to Oz to save it and her friends from an evil jester.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a big fan of the Oz books, but I don&#8217;t think that plot was in one. That just adds to the low-rent feel of the film, starting with the studio to the cast to the plot and, well, there are other, higher-rent options out there. So. we&#8217;ll see if this dies a quick death or draws in some people this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/v.traileraddict.com\/61530\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/momsnightoutposter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-33543\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/momsnightoutposter-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"momsnightoutposter\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/momsnightoutposter-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/momsnightoutposter.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a>3. Mom&#8217;s Night Out (TriStar, 1,044 Theaters,98 Minutes, Rated PG): <\/strong>I am always fascinated when movie I have heard of somehow gets a wide release. You know, I do write for a film site. I keep up on things.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the poorly photoshopped poster doesn&#8217;t really tell us much (seriously, are any two of those people even in the same room when the picture was taken?), except that it might be a distaff version of <strong>The Hangover.<\/strong> Although, the most famous names (and they aren&#8217;t all that famous) are relegated to second billing and in the background of the poster lends itslef to a vanity project.<\/p>\n<p>However, a little digging shows this is the latest entry in the religious film genre, which is giving us about one film a month (and they say that there are too many superhero films). The film follows a bunch of church-going mothers who try to have a night out of a nice dinner at a fancy restaurant away from their kids.\u00a0 Of course, things don&#8217;t go the way they plan.<\/p>\n<p>If this was a normal movie, that would result in drunken debauchery and more than one member of the group being passed out. Instead,we get a stolen minivan and a husband on the way to the hospital. I think they were going to have the women get dessert, but feared a PG-13 rating too much.<\/p>\n<p>I guess there is a Christian message in there somewhere. But I don&#8217;t like the &#8220;Trojan Horse&#8221; approach of putting it out there under the radar on Mother&#8217;s Day weekend. I&#8217;m sure there might be some moms out there who spent their own &#8220;Mom&#8217;s Night Out &#8221; on this film without knowing what their getting going in.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/v.traileraddict.com\/86698\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Calling this weekend a mixed bag would be an understatement.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/08\/new-releases-may-9-2014\/\" title=\"New Releases: May 9, 2014\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":33543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[7260,1652,2539,6949,7261,7040,519,3708,287,2991],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-clarius-entertainment","9":"tag-dan-aykroyd","10":"tag-john-belushi","11":"tag-legends-of-oz-dorothys-return","12":"tag-moms-night-out","13":"tag-neighbors","14":"tag-seth-rogen","15":"tag-tristar","16":"tag-universal","17":"tag-zac-efron"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33539"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=33539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}