This week’s Madison film events are a bit of a Noisy Cricket.
With early releases in The Lone Ranger and Despicable Me 2 opening on Wednesday for Independence Day festivities, this week’s Madison offerings are a tad on the puny side.
Seriously, I feel like I’m gonna break this damn thing.
Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain (AMC Star)
Last week’s rundown had an error, and that’s the omission of comedian Kevin Hart’s comedy tour film, Let Me Explain, which has been screening at AMC Star in Fitchburg since Wednesday. I feel terrible, but if Hart’s comedy film is any bit as hilarious as his tête-à-tête with Romany Malco in The 40 Year Old Virgin, I could definitely see us repping the same Smart Tech.
All freakin’ weekend
Jefferson’s Highway 18 Drive-In begins its double feature of Despicable Me 2 and Fast & Furious 6, a perfectly awkward pairing for the thrill-seeking tween. The box office opens at 6:30p on Friday and Saturday and 8:00p Sunday through Thursday.
Monday
Men in Black (9:00p — Memorial Union Terrace)
For my 10th birthday, my parents bought me Men in Black: The Game for our highfalutin HP Pavilion desktop (Windows 98, dawg), a game which I very well wasted dozens of hours trying and failing to finish. Admittedly, I was rather mediocre with Will Smith’s hand-to-hand fighting system. Not to mention the game’s polished arsenal of Series 4 De-Atomizers and Reverberating Carbonizers (with mutate capacity) was always more fun to look at than use. I think that deep down even my 10 year old self understood the game never captured that blend of science fiction and humor Barry Sonnenfeld nailed in his 1997 action/comedy about a cocky New York cop joining an anonymous organization of galaxy-spanning peace keepers. One would think discovering Men in Black: The Game in hindsight was just a poorly-designed promotional product would raise my self-esteem. One would think.
WUD Film kicks off its intergalactic kegger at 9:00pm at the Memorial Union Terrace.
AMC Summer Nights: The Amazing Spider-man (10:00p — AMC Star)
Monday through Wednesday, AMC Theatres is showing 10:00p screenings of The Amazing Spider-man for $3 and donating all proceeds to Autism Society of America in its Summer Nights series. This time, your money goes to a great cause instead of lining the pockets of Sony executives quick to reboot a comic book franchise out of contractual obligation. I’m not bitter.
Wednesday
Sundance Classics: Grease (1:15p, 7:10p — Sundance)
Speaking of “Summer Nights,” part of me feels like Sundance started its next round of Summer Classics with Grease just so I could make such a slick transition. Peachy keen, jellybean!