Top 10 Summer Movies To See
Spider-who? Bat-who? Bourne-who? Forget the summer action blockbusters. This season we’re much more interested in the softer, sassier, saucier flicks. Instead of aliens, action and adventure, sex, love, family and friendship are the big themes with these movies. Women make up a majority of the lead roles (for a change). Most are indie. And for some reason they all come out this month. Guess it makes sense to get your summer love on early.
Spider-who? Bat-who? Bourne-who? Forget the summer action blockbusters. This season we're much more interested in the softer, sassier, saucier flicks. Instead of aliens, action and adventure, sex, love, family and friendship are the big themes with these movies. Women make up a majority of the lead roles (for a change). Most are indie. And for some reason they all come out this month. Guess it makes sense to get your summer love on early.
10. LOLA VERSUS (June 8)
Dumped 3 weeks before her wedding, 29-year-old Lola (played by the lovable Greta Gerwig) embarks on a series of desperate encounters to find her place in the world before hitting the big 3-O.
View the trailer for LOLA VERSUS.
Author: Em & Lo9. SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED (June 8)
They had us at "From the producers of LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE." Aubrey Plaza (PARKS AND RECREATION) plays an intern at a Seattle magazine who goes undercover to investigate the author of a classified ad seeking someone to time travel with ("Must bring your own weapons. Safety not guarateed. I have only done this once before.").
View the trailer for SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED.
Author: Em & Lo8. BEL AMI (June 8)
A hot (but pasty and penniless) soldier (Robert Pattinson) in 19th century France uses his masculine wiles to get ahead/get some head.
View the trailer for BEL AMI.
Author: Em & Lo7. YOUR SISTER'S SISTER (June 15)
What happens when your sister accidentally sleeps with the man you're in love with. We don't want to know. We mean, we want to know, just not personally. Emily Blunt stars with some other indie heavyweights you'll recognize.
View the trailer for YOUR SISTER'S SISTER.
Author: Em & Lo6. BRAVE (June 22)
If you don't count the mom and the sister (who were basically non-entities), Pixar's TOY STORY had only one female character: Bo Peep, the sexy little lamp who's minuscule role was basically as Woody's fluffer. After a whopping 12 films, Pixar -- or should we say Dixar? -- is finally making a movie with a female lead. Let's hope she has a cool female buddy, not just a domineering mother.
View the trailer for BRAVE.
Author: Em & Lo5. TO ROME WITH LOVE (June 22)
This one we're not so sure about. It's Woody Allen rehashing the same old story of grass-is-always greener love in [insert international city here] -- which is always hit or miss (more miss as of late it seems). But thanks to ANNIE HALL and HANNAH AND HER SISTERS and HUSBANDS AND WIVES, we will always give him the benefit of the doubt (especially if Judy Davis is in it).
View the trailer for TO ROME WITH LOVE.
Author: Em & Lo4. SEEKING A FRIEND FOR THE END OF THE WORLD (June 22)
It's hard to buy Keira Knightly as an awkward loner, but we're willing to suspend our disbelief for an end-of-the-world love story. Hopefully it can compete with 1998'S LAST NIGHT
View the trailer for SEEKING A FRIEND FOR THE END OF THE WORLD.
Author: Em & Lo3. TAKE THIS WALTZ (June 29)
Leave it to Michelle Williams to add some gravitas to this list -- even though the film is billed as a dramedy and co-stars Seth Rogan, one of its trailers is a bit art-house heavy (see below). Plus Seth Rogan is slim, a surefire sign of serious acting. But don't take it from us, take it from the official synopsis: "Swelteringly hot, bright and colorful like a bowl of fruit, TAKE THIS WALTZ leads us, laughing, through the familiar, but uncharted question of what long-term relationships do to love, sex, and our images of ourselves." Legitimate question for a film, but is it really like a bowl of fruit?
View the trailer for TAKE THIS WALTZ.
Author: Em & Lo2. BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD (June 29th)
The standout of this year's Sundance and among the best films to play at the festival in two decades," according to The New York Times, this flick will probably be your best bet on this top 10 list.
View the trailer for BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD.
Author: Em & Lo1. MAGIC MIKE (June 29)
Three words for you: The Male Flashdance.
View the trailer for MAGIC MIKE.
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