(opening dates are tentative)
Hello Herman, not rated In a not-so-distant future, a 16-year-old e-mails clips of himself shooting up his suburban school (killing 39 students, two teachers and a police officer) to his idol, a famous journalist, asking to tell his story on the air. With Norman Reedus, Garrett Backstrom, Martha Higareda, Rob Estes, Sabrina Debler; directed by Michelle Danner. June 7
The Internship, PG-13 Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson play salesmen with careers torpedoed by the digital world who, trying to prove they are not obsolete, talk their way into a coveted internship at Google, where they must compete with tech-savvy geniuses half their age. With Max Minghella, Rose Byrne, John Goodman, Dylan O’Brien, Will Ferrell; directed by Shawn Levy. June 7
The Purge, R In a putative future America where the government has sanctioned an annual 12-hour period in which any and all criminal activity -including murder - becomes legal, a resident of a gated community (Ethan Hawke) and his family must make it through the night without turning into the monsters from whom they hide. With Lena Headey, Adelaide Kane, Max Burkholder; directed by James DeMonaco. June 7
Renoir, R Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, in declining health at age 74 on the French Riviera in the summer of 1915, gains a new, wholly unexpected energy when a young girl miraculously enters his world and becomes his last model and the fixation for his son, recuperating after being wounded in World War I. With Michel Bouquet, Vincent Rottiers, Christa Theret, Thomas Doret, Michele Gleizer; directed by Gilles Bourdos. June 7
MovieStyle, Pages 37 on 05/31/2013