arts & entertainment
kam’s kapsules: Weekly Big Screen Previews
Arthur Christmas (PG for rude
humor) Animated, 3-D adventure
revolving around the effort of Santa
Claus’ (Hugh Laurie) kind-hearted,
clumsy son (James McAvoy) to deliv-
er a bicycle to a little girl (Ramona
Marquez) his father accidentally for-
got to leave any presents. Voice cast
includes Bill Nighy, Joan Cusack, Jim
Broadbent and Imelda Staunton.
Hugo (PG for mature themes, action,
peril and smoking) Martin Scorsese
directed this 3-D fantasy, set in the
Thirties, about a 12 year-old orphan
(Asa Butterfield) befriended by a toy-
maker (Ben Kingsley) and a fellow
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by Kam
Williams
(Jason Segel, Amy Adams and Peter
Linz) in order to save their old theater
from a greedy oil tycoon’s (Chris
Cooper) wrecking ball. Cast includes
Dr. Ken Jeong, Rashida Jones, Zach
Galifianakis and Alan Arkin.
Here’s a roundup of big-screen
movies opening Thanksgiving Day
street urchin (Chloe Grace Moretz)
while living in the walls of a Paris
train station. With Sacha Baron Cohen,
Jude Law, Christopher Lee and
Richard Griffiths.
The Muppets (PG for mild crude
humor) Miss Piggy (Eric Jacobson)
and her puppet pals reunite to stage a
telethon with the help of three fans
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The Artist (PG-13 for a crude ges-
ture and a disturbing image) Black &
white film, set in Hollywood in 1927,
chronicling the contrasting fortunes of
a fading, silent movie star (Jean
Dujardin) and an emerg-
ing ingénue (Berenice
Bejo) positioned to lever-
age her big break in the
talkies.
With
John
Goodman,
James
Cromwell,
Malcolm
McDowell and Penelope
Ann Miller.
A Dangerous Method (R
for sexuality and brief pro-
fanity) Historical drama
highlighting how psychia-
trist Carl Jung’s (Michael
Fassbender) iconoclastic
protégé Sigmund Freud’s
(Viggo
Mortensen)
unorthodox approach to
treatment of a troubled “The Muppets” are back with a film aimed at adults
young woman (Keira
as well as kids
Knightley) led to both a
complicated love triangle
12-step comedy about a painfully-shy chocolatier (Benoit
and the birth of psychoanalysis. With
Poelvoorde) who falls in love with a new assistant (Isabelle
Vincent Cassel, Sarah Gadon and
Carre) suffering from the same affliction. Support cast
Andre Hennicke.
includes Swann Arlaud, Pierre Niney and Lise Lametrie.
House of Tolerance (Unrated)
My Week with Marilyn (R for profanity) Strange bedfel-
Atmospheric adventure set in a bordel-
lows adventure about the unlikely set romance which blos-
lo and revolving around a passive
somed between newlywed Marilyn Monroe (Michelle
prostitute (Alice Barnole) who lets
Williams) and a star-struck crew member (Eddie
herself be disfigured by a regular
Redmayne) during the filming of The Prince and the
client (Laurent Lacotte). With Hafsia
Showgirl in September of 1956. With Kenneth Branagh as
Herzi, Celine Sallette and Jasmine
Sir Laurence Olivier, Julia Ormond as Vivien Leigh and
Trinca. (In French with subtitles)
Dougray Scott as Arthur Miller.
Romantics Anonymous (Unrated)
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