(7.5) Heads up — Movies on the Block is scheduled for Friday night this weekend. This week’s installment is the heart-warming, coming-of-age film “Kick-Ass.” The New York Times review describes it thusly.
A story about a teenager who yearns to be a superhero, and a little girl who’s the star of her own splatter-happy head trip, the big-screen comic “Kick-Ass” could not be more calculating, or cynical. Fast, periodically spit-funny and often grotesquely violent, the film at once embraces and satirizes contemporary action-film clichés with Tarantino-esque self-regard — it’s the latest in giggles-and-guts entertainment.
Fans of Downton Abbey will enjoy Elizabeth McGovern as Mrs. Lizewski.
Rated-R, running time 117 minutes.
Free, starts at dusk, Friday, July 5, Grant’s Block, Westminster at Union Street