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Science Fiction/PG-13

Men in Black

Tommy Lee Jones
Will Smith
Linda Fiorentino
Vincent D'Onofrio
Rip Torn
Written by Ed Solomon
Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld
Released by Sony Pictures
Produced by W. Parkes and Laurie McDonald

If you are a 10 or 12 year old male, you will probably think this is the best movie you've ever seen. If you're not, well...the plotline will probably leave you a little cold, since there isn't much of one. However, if you really love wisecracks and special effects, you might still enjoy yourself (unless you have an aversion to really creepy giant-sized cockroach-type things). In my opinion, the best part was the flying bug at the very beginning.

Stephen Spielberg was in the credits... his touch is evident.

Tommy Lee Jones (very tongue in-cheek) and Will Smith (he's a pistol) are intergalactic immigration officers who oversee aliens living on our planet. Enough said!

My Best Friend's Wedding

Julia Roberts as "Jules"
Photo by Suzanne Tenner/Columbia TriStar

Produced by Jerry Zucker & Ronald Bass
Written by Ronald Bass
Exec. Prod. Gil Netter & Patricia Whitcher
Directed by P. J. Hogan
Cinematography by Laszlo Kovacs

This is the romantic comedy must-see this summer! The Jean Cocteau theater in Santa Fe has been so packed every evening since this film was introduced, that we just barely managed to squeeze in to review it. The beautiful Julia Roberts plays Julianne Potter ("Jules"), a fast-lane food critic; the opener finds Jules having lunch with her editor, George (the dashingly handsome - but gay - Rupert Everett). Jules explains to George that her best friend, Michael (the adorably cute Dermot Mulroney), her love interest for the past nine years, has been trying to reach her. She relates to George how she and Michael pledged to marry one another in the event that neither one of them is otherwise hitched by the ripe old age of 28, and since her birthday is right around the corner... Later she returns Michael's call, only to be invited to his wedding! Not only is the love of her life getting married to someone else, he's marrying Kimmy (Cameron Diaz), a 20-year-old blonde preppy with a silver spoon in her mouth. So what does Jules do? Her best to break them up, of course!

I liked this upbeat film a lot. The characters were interesting and funny, ridiculous and sweet. And everything turns out the way it ought to in the end.