SFist Watches: Movies This Weekend
This has been a long week for SFist, and we're in the mood for some mindless escapism, something where hilarity ensues. No, not Guess Who, the horrifying-looking reimagining of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, with Ashton Kutcher in the Sidney Poitier role, as if you haven't seen the relentless advertising. Needless to say, LaSalle loved it, so y'all know to run away.
But you know what we are kind of into? D.E.B.S. Check out this plot summary:
Hidden within the S.A.T. is a secret test that studies not a girl's reading or mathematics skill, but her potential to perform duties within the realm of espionage, like deception, physical combat and if needed, murder. Those who score high enough on this secret scale are recruited to join a secret academy where they will be trained to become spies in a paramilitary group they call... D.E.B.S. This film focuses on four of these plaid skirted debutantes as they're recruited and engage in their first mission, which is an effort to rescue one of their cohorts who has been kidnapped by the D.E.B.S. lesbian nemesis who calls herself Lucy in the Sky...
Dealing with the hot topic of standardized testing and the even hotter topic of Devon Aoki in a teeny skirt, how can D.E.B.S. be anything other than our Big Budget pick of the week? You can catch it at the Landmark's Embarcadero Theater, so you can still get that indie feeling while watching Jordana Brewster beat up a bunch of chicks.
6ixtynin9 poster from Heroic Cinema
Fine, smarty. You're too good for D.E.B.S., so what can you go see?
What about The Red Vic's Friday and Saturday screenings of Down By Law? See Roberto Benigni before he was climbing all over the damn furniture, as he's joined by John Lurie and Tom Waits as his cellmates in a New Orleans prison. Needless to say, dark hilarity ensues.
Of course, there's also the Spring Asian Film Festival continuing at the 4 Star with 6ixtynin9 (this is your cue, Londonist Mike), a movie about a broke woman who finds a box of money on her stoop and decides to keep it. Would you be surprised to hear that violent hilarity ensues? Of course you're not.
How about you? Share your film plans, big or small, in the comments!