Weekend Movie Forecast: Taking Woodstock or The Final Destination

We interviewed Big Fan star Patton Oswalt today, and the NY Times' Manhola Dargis thinks the tale of a devoted Giants fan from Staten Island, written and directed by Robert Siegel, scores, "One of the pleasures of this agreeably low-key and modest film is that he isn’t selling a message or trying to wring a grand metaphor out of his humble material: he’s created a somewhat simple story about a man who turns out to be rather less simple than he first appears. Unlike his script for The Wrestler, with its embarrassment of clichés and bucket of tears, the screenplay for “Big Fan” avoids sentimentality without abandoning sentiment. Paul might make you squirm, but Mr. Siegel refuses to sell him out so you can feel more comfortable with his eccentricities, no small thing in contemporary independent cinema."