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HANCOCK
dir. Peter Berg
Starring: Will Smith, Jason Bateman

Hancock looks to be the blockbuster of the week, though the jury is still out on how well this will actually do. The film is about a made-up superhero named Hancock, who doesn’t want to use his powers to help anyone, he wants to be left alone in his drunken stuper to do whatever he wants. Early reviewers are suggesting that this film is something of a flop, trying to do to many things at once. It will surely break the top ten this week, but I don’t know that there are really any guarantees for Hancock.

PICK OF THE WEEK:

THE WACKNESS (limited)
dir. Jonathan Levine
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Famke Janssen

It’s early 90s New York, and the city is changing as is the life of the lead character, a high school student with trouble fitting in. He sells pot on the side to try and improve his reputation and begins selling it to his shrink (Ben Kingsley). The word from the festival circuit is that this is going to be one of the best independent films of the summer. I think the trailer is looking pretty stellar.

KABLUEY (limited)
dir. Scott Prendergast
Starring: Lisa Kudrow, Scott Prendergast

DIMINISHED CAPACITY
dir. Terry Kinney
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Alan Alda

GONZO: THE LIFE AND WORK OF HUNTER S. THOMPSON (limited)
dir. Alex Gibney

Gibney is one of the great modern documentarians, here he teams up with Johnny Depp to bring some insight into the life of one of the 20th century’s greatest journalists. This is sure to be one of the bigger docs of the summer (in a summer that has seen some steep declines in the number of people attending documentary’s in the theater).

HOLDING TREVOR (limited)
dir. Rosser Goodman
Starring: Brent Gorski, Jay Brannan

TELL NO ONE (limited)
dir. Guillame Canet
Starring: Francois Cluzet, Kristen Scott Thomas

Last Week’s Top Ten

1. WALL-E
2. Wanted
3. Get Smart
4. Kung-Fu Panda
5. The Incredible Hulk
6. The Love Guru
7. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
8. The Happening
9. Sex & the City
10. You Don’t Mess with the Zohan

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