Two more movies not screened for critics?

For what it’s worth, I have received official word that Epic Movie, which opens this Friday, will not be screened in advance of its release date at all. Ordinarily, I would shrug my shoulders and say who cares, but this particular parody takes aim at some of the franchises that I have been paying close attention to lately, so I kind of feel obliged to see it in a way that I never felt obliged to see Date Movie, Not Another Teen Movie (2001) or even the Scary Movies (2000-2006). I just don’t want to pay to do so.

Meanwhile, the werewolf romance Blood and Chocolate is also opening this Friday, and it looks like this will be one of those flicks that is shown to critics at the last possible minute, i.e. Thursday night, so that the critics can’t file their reviews in time for the Friday morning papers. But I could be wrong about that; perhaps reviewers in other cities will get a more generous offer.