Happy 4th of July! July is going to be a slow month with only two movies in my top picks of movies to see and both of them being ones I have seen at festivals in the last year. But that’s ok because I have alot of catch up to do with movies released in the last couple of months (See: Must Watch List (April - June)). Feel free to check out what I thought for these two great movies - one being a light comedy from one of the best comedic actresses today and the other the frontrunner for my best movie of 2013.
[July 19]
Girl Most Likely (formerly Imogene): What does a Kristen Wiig film project post-Bridesmaids look like? This. Here she plays a woman failing in her professional life who stages a suicide attempt to get alittle attention from her ex only to have it put her on track to confront everything she has avoided and to regain her life back. Sounds serious but don’t worry, it’s not. And Annette Bening who plays her gambling-addicted mother is so funny.
–> Toronto International Film Festival [Day 2]: “Imogene”
[June 26]

Fruitvale Station (formerly Fruitvale): It’s the movie that will put Michael B Jordan on the map as a big Hollywood actor, solidify Octavia Spencer as a remarkable serious actress, and introduce Ryan Coolger as not only the next best black writer/director but one of the best new filmmakers period. Focused on the injustice of the recent death of Oscar Grant, this movie is certainly one of the best films of the year.
–> Fruitvale Station trailer and my review from Sundance 2013, where I was one of the first to see it