> May 5 - Mission: Impossible III

Pay me the estimated box office gross for this and I might go see it. Also, Tom Cruise is a nutcase!

> May 19 - The Da Vinci Code

> Dan Brown's heretical book became the most
> popular adult book of all time when it sold six > skillion copies -- nearly a thirtieth of what
> Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince sold the > first day. ... Don't care.

Funny, I couldn't care much less about this one myself.

> June 9 - A Prairie Home Companion

I will catch this at some point, just not sure if it will be in the theatre.

> June 16 - Sssslither
>
> Speaking of hack horror...

'Nuff said: I'll catch it on video.


> June 16 - The Lake House
>
> Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock reunite, this time in a metaphysical romance of sorts, something like the chick-flick version of "Frequency." On a scale of -10 to 10, the casting averages out to a 1 for me.

Averages to a -1.5 for me, but it's a matter of taste.


> June 30 - Click
>
> Adam Sandler ...
-CLICK!-


> July 7 - A Scanner Darkly
>
> Funny thing about this -- I like NONE of the cast (Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Robert Downey Jr., and Woody Harrelson) but the movie looks, if nothing else, intriguing. It's a rotoscope-animated adaptation of the Philip K. Dick novel, by director Richard Linklater, whose filmography is almost as hilariously diverse (Dazed and Confused, The Newton Boys, School of Rock, Before Sunset, Waking Life, Bad News Bears) as Ang Lee's. Philip K. Dick has been poorly served by film, but this one has a good shot of reversing the trend.

I agree with Sam on this one. In fact, this is probably one of the few I'll actually go to the theatre for.



> July 21 - Lady In the Water
>
M. Night Shyamalan does have style. In fact, I've wondered what would happen if he directed a Philip Dick story, since with Dick you're never quite sure what's real and what's not until the end (and not always then).



> July 28 - Scoop
>
> Woody Allen ...is an unusual filmmaker, where his movies all have a signature style and continually return to the same key broad-based themes but rarely cover the same territory in quite the same way. You can't, for example, pick a single Woody Allen movie and call that representative of his work. ... So who knows what this is, and small wonder studio execs are nervous around him.

I'd be nervous around him too; he's creepy. (talented, but creepy)


> August 18 - Snakes On a Plane
>
> The title says it all, really, doesn't it?

Yes, yes it does.