Coming Soon

Coming soon

Scheduled to open in area theaters next weekend (June 6) are:- Kung Fu Panda, this summer’s animated offering from the house that “Shrek” built (DreamWorks Animation) has a title that pretty much says it all – it’s about a panda named Po who leaves the family noodle shop to study alongside a quintet called the Furious Five and their guru Master Shifu. The bears’ baleful nemesis is a vengeful snow leopard up to no good. Behind the CGI fur are the voices of Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan, Lucy Liu and Seth Rogen.- You Don’t Mess With the Zohan, for better or worse, the latest offering from the “I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry” brain-trust of director Dennis Dugan and star-producer Adam Sandler, this time armed with a script co-authored (with Sandler) by one-man- yucks factory Judd (“Knocked Up”) Apatow. Sandler plays an Israeli commando who fakes his own death, all the better to pursue his lifelong dream of becoming a hair stylist in New York. Expect his commando past and his hair-blowing present to intersect before it’s all over. Alex Luria, Emmanuelle Chriqui and Ron Schneider head up the support team.

Film clipsJune at the Normal: June offerings at the Normal Theater range from the classic to the contemporary. On tap are 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days (2007), the Romanian abortion drama that won the Palme d’Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, 6/5-8; 3:10 to Yuma (1957), the much superior original version of the taught western drama, starring Glenn Ford and Van Heflin, 6/12-13; The Cowboy and the Lady (1938), a western comedy with Gary Cooper and Merle Oberon, 6/14-15; The Counterfeiters (2007), this year’s Best Foreign Film Oscar winner about the Nazi-era counterfeiting ring, 6/19-22; Clash By Night (1952), Clifford Odets’ moody noir drama with Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan and Marilyn Monroe; and The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), the classic original version of James M. Cain’s masterpiece, starring Lana Turner and John Garfield.

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