I Love Moon Sex With Tetro, Inc: This Weekend at the Movies

A scene from Daryl Wein's "Sex Positive." Image courtesy of Regent Releasing.

With Hollywood offering a particularly weak duo - Tony Scott’s mildly received remake of “The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3” and the new addition to Eddie Murphy’s “what if?” family comedy resume - this weekend is the perfect time to find to some alternatives.

The highest profile option comes care of legendary director Francis Ford Coppola’s second recent attempt at a return to form, “Tetro.” Based around the troubles of an Italian-American family living in Argentina, indieWIRE‘s Eric Kohn warns the film is only a “mildly interesting entry in Coppola’s thirty-plus years of work.” Though relative to “Imagine That,” it’s likely to feel like a masterpiece.

Much warmer indieWIRE notices fell upon a trio of other indie releases: Duncan Jones’ sci-fi effort “Moon,” which Kohn says “nails the genre’s original appeal”; Daryl Wein’s doc on groundbreaking writer and safe-sex spokesman Richard Berkowitz, “Sex Positive,” noted by Michael Koresky as “intelligent and engaging”; and Robert Kenner’s food industry expose, “Food, Inc,” which Michael Rowin called an “enlightening if not groundbreaking documentary.”

Two other films - though not reviewed by indieWIRE - Paul Devlin’s “BLAST!” and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi’s “Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love” - are previewed in our calendar, as are the aforementioned.  Each film has its own page, complete with a round up of reviews, links to the extensive coverage we’ve done on the films here, as well as general information on the films, trailers, and - please note - the opportunity for you the reader to rate and comment on each film. Check them out, and choose your Eddie Murphy alternative:

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Paul Devlin’s BLAST! Robert Kenner’s Food, Inc. Duncan Jones’s Moon Daryl Wein’s Sex Positive Francis Ford Coppola’s Tetro Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi’s Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love Loading ... What interests you at the movies this weekend? Oogling Alden Ehrenreich for two hours. Reconsidering your safe sex practices. Reconsidering the food industry. Sam Rockwell, Sam Rockwell, and Kevin Spacey the computer. Youssou Ndour, bringing what he loves. Eddie Murphy getting stock tips from imaginary princesses. Denzel Washington pursuing a scientologist that's executing subway passengers. Seeing "Up" again. Read & React: I Love Moon Sex With Tetro, Inc: This Weekend at the Movies posted on June 12, 2009 |Share