This weekend the box office is zipping right through a dose of nitrous oxide into the world of the dead to bring you some folks who are retired but extremely dangerous.

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Turbo — PG

To be honest, this film doesn’t look great to me. Dreamworks has always been a bit hit or miss for me, and especially in the the past they’ve tended to be a bit copy cat like with some of their films.

But, I do have it on good authority that this film is better than one might expect so I’ll have to see it and form my own opinion.

Turbo (Ryan Reynolds) is a speed-obsessed snail with an…

To find out whether we survive the monster apocalypse coming sometime in the near future, you’ll need to see Guillermo del Toro’s newest film, Pacific Rim. I’m not going to spoil it too much for you, but let’s just say that there are monsters and robots and lots of big stupid summer action.

New This Weekend

Pacific Rim — PG-13

I was a little worried about this film at first. It looked for all the world during the first phase of the promotional campaign like a big stupid action movie — all fluff and no substance. The tide of the campaign slowly began to turn more toward the human…

Gather your minions and hide the moon! This weekend Gru is back baby! Of course, also in theaters, Captain Jack Sparrow will be playing an indian named Tonto who aids a ranger, a lone ranger no less, who must wear a mask to serve justice, or some such thing. Whatever, one thing is for sure, the film is not really about the lone ranger or Armie Hammer, it’s about Captain Jack Sparrow! Duh!

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Despicable Me 2 — PG

I’m not sure whether I’m going to see this or The Long Ranger tonight. They are both equally tied for the “meh” classification in my mind. I saw the first one…

This weekend the box office will really be “heating” things up and taking the “white house down” while vampires live their secret lives. Let’s take a look, shall we?

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The Heat - R

I’m kind of looking forward to this film but I have this nagging feeling that I’m going to be disappointed. Still, seems like there should be some good laughs in it, right? (surely there will be).

Uptight and straight-laced, FBI Special Agent Sarah Ashburn (Sandra Bullock) is a methodical investigator with a reputation for excellence—and hyper-arrogance. Shannon Mullins (Melissa…

I have a sad. I still don’t get to see Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing. It’s infuriating, but it’s not playing anywhere around the Nashville area. I even opened up Fandango’s search parameters to within 100 miles. Nothing. I want to see it! This sort of thing makes it hard for me to know whether I should include it on my what to see list. I’ll just say that if it’s playing in your area you may want to see it.

Of course, with Monsters University and World War Z opening this weekend, it’s not like we lack anything to watch anyway, so carry on.

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Monsters University -…