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I drove up to Boston Wednesday afternoon for a 24-hour or so rush through three screenings and three meetings. Things got off to a terrific start when—silly me—I assumed there was only one Jordan's Furniture IMAX theater within a half-hour radius of Boston. This turned out not to be the case, and as a result I missed my last chance to see The Dark Knight (Warner Brothers, 7/18, trailer) before its opening weekend (which is apparently tracking to be a record-shatterer). C'est la vie. Anyway, tomorrow morning, I am going to stop by and observe a very successful summer camp for young actors from the Boston area that is being run by a friend of mine, and then head downtown for press screenings of Oscar-possibility Vicky Cristina Barcelona (The Weinstein Company, 8/15, trailer)—my second attempt—and Oscar-impossibility Step Brothers (Columbia, 7/25, trailer). I should have more on those for you tomorrow night.

UPDATE (7/17, 10:04pm): Today, I got my theaters straightened out, but not my expectations. I'm going to withhold comment on Vicky Cristina Barcelona for a little while, as there is still about a month to go before it hits theaters; I will, however, share some general reactions to Step Brothers, since that opens nationwide a week from tomorrow, and since I was so pleasantly surprised by it: aside from the other Judd Apatow production, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, it's easily the funniest movie of the year so far, offering more laugh-out-loud moments than any other in which Will Ferrell has starred. He and co-star John C. Reilly were sporadically funny in their one previous collaboration, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby—which, like this film, was directed by Adam McKay—but, to me at least, it didn't quite click; this time, it does. Sure, it's infantile, crude, vulgar, and everything else that the usual haters of Ferrell/Sandler/Vaughn/Wilson/Carrey/Black/Rogen/et. al. despise... but it's also wildly amusing escapism that only a complete stiff would not chuckle at. (It's also important to remember that silly big movies like Step Brothers pay the bills for great character actors like Richard Jenkins, allowing them to make serious little movies like The Visitor, which is reason enough to tolerate them!)

For whatever reason, a couple of videos destined for viral greatness hit the net this weekend. The first features Will Ferrell, who was at CNBC to record an interview with John McEnroe, bursting onto the set of another show as it was airing live. The female co-host seems to be in on the joke, but the male co-host is obviously bewildered and unaware of the identity of his guest...

The second clip comes (via Hollywood-Elsewhere) from Jimmy Kimmel Live in which the eponymous host's wife is a guest and surprises him with the news that she has been having an affair with Matt Damon, who gamely participates in the joke...