When I sat down with The Kings of Summer director Jordan Vogt-Roberts to discuss his movie I expected to have the typical fifteen to twenty-minute block of time. We ended up talking for far longer than that. As a result, our Q&A turned into more of a talk than an interview. I'm not going to…
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Briefly: Hey, LA, if you haven't seen the very entertaining film The Kings of Summer, from director Jordan Vogt-Roberts, tonight might be the best night to catch it. At 7:40 this evening, at the Landmark Los Angeles at 10850 West Pico Blvd, Doug Benson will be hosting a special edition of the 'Doug Loves Movies' podcast, with the…
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Audiences love a good coming of age story, and Jordan Vogt-Roberts' film The Kings of Summer is a great one. It tells the story of three boys (Nick Robinson, Gabriel Basso, Moises Aries) who decide to run away from home and build their own house in the woods. The Sundance hit opens in New York…
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There's a lot to like in the coming of age comedy The Kings of Summer, which opens on May 31. The Stand By Me meets Superbad story of three boys who run away from home to make their own house in the woods creates an entertaining and relatable microcosm of teenage life thanks to the…
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This new red-band trailer for The Kings of Summer, from Jordan Vogt-Roberts, does a much better job of capturing the movie's character, humor, and adolescent unease than the first trailer did. In fact, this is the look at the film that audiences should have had in the first place. Nick Robinson, Gabriel Basso, and Moises Arias play three kids…
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Joe is sick of dealing with his depressed father after the death of Joe's mother; Patrick's cloying parents are getting him down, too. Sounds like the beginning of a typical teen comedy, but The Kings of Summer (which debuted at Sundance as Toy's House) isn't quite that. This is a coming of age story that…
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One of the hottest films at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival was a little movie called Toy's House, which got purchased by CBS Films. The distributor has retitled the film to the less confusing The Kings of Summer, and slotted it for release May 31. That's coming up quick, so a teaser trailer is out…
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Update: Toy's House was renamed The Kings of Summer, so I've changed the title in this review. Coming of age stories are a dime a dozen. Good ones are one in a million and The Kings of Summer, written by Chris Galletta and directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts, is definitely the latter. It’s the story of Joe…
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