{"id":968,"date":"2008-08-21T18:59:39","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T22:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=968"},"modified":"2018-12-08T22:56:33","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T03:56:33","slug":"new-releases-august-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/21\/new-releases-august-22\/","title":{"rendered":"New Releases: August 22"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. The House Bunny (2,600+ Theaters, 97 Minutes, Rated PG-13<\/strong>): This film is the story of a former Playboy playmate who is kicked out of the mansion for being too old. She ends up being the house mother at a college sorority where she teaches the geeky, plain-looking\u00a0girls\u00a0how to glam it up a little bit and they teach her, well, how not to be so much of a bimbo, I guess.<\/p>\n

Of course, I love how Hollywood presents these awkward girls. Almost all of them are brunettes\u00a0or auburn-haired, none of them wear makeup, some wear glasses, all wear\u00a0baggy clothes. Wait! Is this supposed to prove to me that these girls are unattractive? These girls, if I wasn’t already married, would be my type.<\/p>\n

So, right there, the movie has lost me. \u00a0I mean, Kat Dennings and Katherine McPhee really don’t need glamming up to be attractive\u00a0(well, no woman does in my opinion) so I kind of think this film is pointless.<\/p>\n

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\u00a02. Death Race (2,400 Theaters, 89 Minutes, Rated R):<\/strong> Was it just me, or was the first thought that popped into your head when you saw this trailer, “Is Joan Allen slumming?”<\/p>\n

Don’t get me wrong, the film seems like a fairly good sci-fi action flick, but Joan Allen has been nominated for an Oscar! Three Times! She should be making period pieces where dukes and duchesses stab each other in the back, not a film where inmates try to kill each other with cars.<\/p>\n

Allen plays the evil warden in this in-name-only remake of the Roger Corman produced and Paul Bartel directed 1975 film, Death Race 2000. <\/strong>Jason Statham plays NASCAR driver Jensen Ames (love that name!) who was framed for killing his wife and is now forced to compete in the underground kill-or-be-killed car race.<\/p>\n

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\u00a03. The Longshots (2,000 Theaters, 94 Minutes, Rated PG<\/strong>): I would like us all to take a step back for a minute. Look at this film. Ice “F@!# the Police” Cube and Fred “It’s All About the Nookie” Durst have made a kids movie. Yes, one of the founding fathers of gangster rap and a man who has a sex-tape are\u00a0doing family fare. If that doesn’t make you feel old, nothing will.<\/p>\n

Durst is directing Cube in this film, based\u00a0on the true story of Jasmine Plummer who, at 11, became the first girl to play Pop Warner Football in its 56-year history.<\/p>\n

Ice Cube has dipped his toes into family fare with Are We There Yet?,<\/strong>but it is totally weird to see\u00a0the\u00a0lead singer of Limp Bizkit directing a major motion picture. I wonder if they are going to collaborate on the soundtrack?<\/p>\n

No trailer to imbed, so if you want to see it, you’ll have to watch it on iFilm<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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