(500) Days of Summer

This past week, I revisited the Back to the Future trilogy, directed by Robert Zemeckis. These films essentially laid the groundwork for Michael J. Fox’s career — the man is synonymous with Marty McFly. The movies are a mad dash, guaranteed to raise your stress level and blood pressure no matter how many times you see them. I swear, I always think Dr. Emmett Brown and Marty are going to miss their one lighting quick chance to send Marty back to the future in the first film, despite watching it happen probably hundreds of times.
They got me thinking though — do we have any young actors like Fox in these films, frantic but cool, likeable but authoritative? Do any young guys have a role that’s so synonymous with their name that they’ll never be able to part from it?
Shia LeBeouf, for example, is probably most closely associated with the Transformers movies. »
- John Cooper

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After years of speculation and attempted pairings, Zooey and Emily Deschanel will join forces on a December episode of Fox's "Bones."   The "500 Days of Summer" star had been previously wooed to make a "Bones" guest appearance on multiple occasions, only to have scheduling conflicts prevent the reunion.    On Wednesday (Oct. 28), though, "Bones" creator Hart Hanson tweeted, "The Deschanel sisters working it together! We may have hit our quotient for fun and amusing. They obviously adore each other."   And then on Thursday morning, Fox announced that Zooey's "Bones" episode will air on Dec. 10.   Titled "The... »
- Daniel Fienberg

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In the handful of cities where it was launched this weekend, (500) Days of Summer far outshone the latest Harry Potter movie both in terms of cash receipts (it took in nearly twice as much as Harry on a per-theater basis) and in critical praise. Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times greeted it with a rare four-star review, writing that it's the rare romantic comedy that does not play by "the Hollywood rules," thereby causing audiences to "perk up" as they realize that "anything could happen." Indeed, A.O. Scott in the New York Times described it as "a fairly pointed response to the sorry state of romantic comedy in Hollywood, which runs the gamut from gauzily implausible fantasy to blatant and fatuous dishonesty, with an occasional detour into raunchy humor." This "winsome, accessible movie," he observed, "has a novelty and a measure of bravery working in its favor." Claudia Puig in USA Today raved: "It's hard to imagine a more delightful, witty, well-acted and inventive comedy hitting screens this year." Joe Neumaier in the New York Daily News described it as "the rare romantic comedy that feels like real life." »

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