I’m restating the obvious, but yesterday’s “Not-So-Bad Summer” piece reminded me what an unusual late July-early August we’ll be seeing this year. Four audacious, high-calibre films from a cluster of heavyweight older-guy directors — Michael Mann, Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson, Oliver Stone — opening within a three-week period (7.28 to 8.11). Mann’s Miami Vice on 7.28, Eastwood’s Flags of our Fathers and Gibson’s Apocalypto on 8.4, and Stone’s World Trade Center on 8.11.

April 3, 2006by Jeffrey Wells1 Comment