Technically, Summer begins with Memorial Day for me, some of us never get over the ebb and flow of the seasons from when we were in school.
Although I’m late on my finale to Karl Marx’s 200th birthday and I haven’t even started watching She’s Having a Baby, I changed the art to one of 1998’s most overlooked movies, Out of Sight. It’s a Dark Comedy and Action film centered around a heist the George Clooney character had been planning after meeting Albert Brooks’ version of Charles Keating while they were both in prison. There’s also Don Cheadle, Luis Guzman, Katherine Keener and Ving Rhames turning in great performances. The weakest link is obviously Jennifer Lopez for me. It’s not her worst attempt at acting but I found her character implausible because Lopez is outclassed by the others. If you’ve seen Jackie Brown, you’ll appreciate one of the two cameos.
Sight was a personal favorite film 20 years ago when I was a projectionist in Cary, NC, saving up for the day I would return to Austin. The theater even let me keep the official poster. Today it’s somewhere in a tube. The design was so simple and the color choices were perfect, I had to emulate this for June 2018. Lastly, I believe it’s a great story thanks to its source material, one of Elmore Leonard’s numerous novels.