about $4,000. Movie ticket: maybe ten
bucks? You do the math.
THE EXPENDABLES
;August 13
Sylvester Stallone, Jet Li, Dolph
Lundgren, Mickey Rourke
What’s the shelf life of testosterone?
We’ll find out when cowriter-director
Stallone arrives with his middle-aged
wrecking crew, including Li (still
ageless), Lundgren (still buff), and
Rourke (still, um, scary), starring as a
team of mercenaries wreaking havoc
in South America. Bonus: Bruce Willis
makes a cameo; so does soon-to-retire
governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, in
his return to action movies.
NANNY MCPHEE
RETURNS;August 20
Emma Thompson, Maggie Gyllen-haal, Ralph Fiennes, Maggie Smith
Thompson (who also cowrote the
screenplay) reprises the snaggle-toothed nanny who magically makes
everything right for a troubled family—
this time a British mother (
Gyllen-haal), her three children, and their two
spoiled cousins—as they struggle to
run their farm while Dad’s off fighting
World War II. Meanwhile, the sublime Maggie Smith threatens to steal
the movie with her small, delightful
turn as a scatterbrained shopkeeper.
The sequel promises the original’s enchanting, unapologetic determination
to convey equal helpings of humor,
fantasy, and McPhee-ish tough love.
THE AMERICAN;September 1
George Clooney
Hey, George, what’re you doing with
that high-powered rifle? Gee, you
seem awfully serious—where’s that
mischievous smirk of yours? Wait a
minute, you’re playing a hit man this
time, aren’t you? Pulling one last job,
hiding out in an Italian village, one eye
scoping a beautiful local woman (Irina
Björklund) and the other scanning for
your human target. Well, okay. Oscar
snubbed you last year for being yourself in Up in the Air, your best movie in
years. So go ahead: give ’em a dose of
Dangerous George. ;
