NEW MOVIES: 5/4

SPIDERMAN 3

I know you've probably already seen this trailer a million times, but it's finally here. Spiderman will face off against Venom, Topher Grace will show off his bad ass side, and Kirsten Dunst will have some competition in the form of Bryce Dallas Howard. Action. Drama. Romance. What more could you ask for?


LUCKY YOU

Okay. So maybe you don't want to see an overgrown man flying through the city in spandex, assisted by string of snot consistency. Maybe you want romance of the more realistic nature. In this film, Eric Bana forgoes the historic drama (Munich), the epic tale (Troy), and the radioactive emotions (Hulk), in order to woo Drew Barrymore. He plays a very lucky professional gambler who'd rather take risks at the poker table than taking them in life. Besides the fact that it romanticizes deadbeats, it seems like an interesting bet.

WAITRESS

I envy Keri Russell. When "Felicity" first aired, I did not agree with her decision to go to NYU just to follow her crush. But, I do admire Russell for trying to scuttle from underneath the weight that was a famous TV character. Topher's trying his hat at it and Sarah Michelle Gellar is still struggling through. But I'm sure that after you see this trailer, let alone this movie, you won't see Felicity anymore. That right there is a southern wife with an asshole for a husband and an accidental pregnancy, who would rather make pies whose names are influenced by her immediate emotions, than deal with her troubles head-on and admit her love for her dreamy doc (Nathan Fillion, "Drive"). She'd rather conform than fight back. But trust me, after those hormones fully kick in, those pies will be filled with arsenic and promptly fed to the nearest asshole.


PARIS JE T'AIME

Let's see. Paris + Love. Yeah, that adds up. You know what else adds up? This indie flick has twenty segments--putting Love Actually to shame—and over 20 directors and writers. And if that isn't impressive enough, it's bursting with amazing actors: Elijah Wood, Natalie Portman, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gena Rowlands, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Emily Mortimer, Steve Buscemi, and Nick Nolte. Oh yeah, the plot. Think of it as Babel for love. It's a kaleidoscope of international perceptions of romance with Paris—being the city of love—as a backdrop.