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I forgot to mention last week that Who\u2019s Your Caddy?<\/a><\/i> was not screened for critics<\/a> prior to its release. I probably overlooked the film because it hasn\u2019t been released at all<\/i> in Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, it is beginning to look like Underdog<\/a><\/i>, which opens this Friday, is also giving critics the cold shoulder. The only local screening that I know of is on Thursday night \u2014 and as we all know, night-before-release-date screenings \u201cdon\u2019t count\u201d. I also know of at least one major American city where at least some critics are being told that there won\u2019t be any<\/i> screenings of this film.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, I have been curious lately as to how some Christians might react to this film\u2019s \u201cOne Nation\u2026 Under Dog\u201d tagline, which might strike some as a tad sacrilegious. (See also the \u201cJohn 6:27\u201d tagline in some of the Live Free or Die Hard<\/a><\/i> posters, where \u201cJohn\u201d stood for John McClane and \u201c6:27\u201d stood for the release date. If there were a third example of this sort of thing, we would have a \u201ctrend\u201d and someone could write an article about it.) FWIW, I know of at least one Christian firm that is actually promoting<\/i> this film to the church-based press \u2014 presumably because it\u2019s a \u201cfamily movie\u201d, and not because of any perceived religious content.<\/p>\n

AUG 1 UPDATE: I have just been informed that Thursday night\u2019s preview screening of Underdog<\/i> is a \u201cno press\u201d screening.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"