The Weekend Warrior: June 10 - 12

06/07/11 ComingSoon.net's The Weekend Warrior offers a preview of the new releases opening on Friday, June 10, including J.J. Abrams' alien invasion movie (of sorts) Super 8 (Paramount) and the family film Judy Moody and the NOT Bummer Summer (Relativity Media) based on the popular kids' books. "The Chosen One" this week is Michael Winterbottom's road comedy The Trip (IFC Films) starring Steve Coogan and ...

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The Trip: Great Impressions

06/10/11 Michael Winterbottom's faux-fake movie provides an immediate and lasting kick as well as the spectacle of two comic combatants at the top of their game.

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On the road again: A cinematic version of The Trip has set the US talking

07/13/11 It should be the sort of thing that fails to translate: a low-key road movie following two British comedians as they joke, bicker and needle each other through a series of meals in restaurants in northern England. But hits can come from the most surprising places, and so it is that Michael Winterbottom's film version of his BBC series The Trip, which cuts the six-part series into just under two ...

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