Arts & Entertainment
Movies Opening This Week: For June 8
By Kam Williams
Special to The Skanner News
BIG BUDGET FILMS
Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most
Wanted (PG for mild action and
rude humor) Latest adventure in
the animated franchise finds the
anthropomorphic menagerie join-
ing the circus in Monte Carlo to
evade capture by a mean, animal
control officer (Frances McDor-
mand). Voice cast includes Ben
Stiller, Chris Rock, Sacha Baron
Cohen, Jada Pinkett Smith, David
Schwimmer and Cedric the Enter-
tainer.
Prometheus (R for intense vio-
lence and brief profanity) Ridley
Scott directed this sci-fi thriller,
set in the late 21st Century, about
a team of scientists whose
research expedition to outer space
turns into a desperate struggle for
survival when they encounter a
bloodthirsty race of aliens bent on
exterminating all of humanity.
Starring Charlize Theron, Idris
Elba, Noomi Rapace, Michael
Fassbender and Guy Perace.
INDEPENDENT & FOR-
EIGN FILMS
Bel Ami (R for nudity, graphic
sexuality and brief profanity)
Romance drama, set in Paris in the
1890s, about an ambitious young
politician (Robert Pattinson) who
rises to power by seducing the
city’s wealthiest and most-influen-
tial women. With Uma Thurman,
Christina Ricci and Kristin Scott
Thomas.
Corpo Celeste (Unrated) Com-
ing-of-age drama about a 13
year-old (Yle Vianello) who
resists the pressure to practice
Catholicism when her family
‘Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted’
moves back to Italy after living in
Switzerland for a decade. (In Ital-
ian with subtitles)
Dark Horse (Unrated) Todd
Solondz directed this romance
drama about the love which blos-
soms between a couple of
dysfunctional adults still living
with their parents, one (Jordan
Gelber), a toy collector, the other
(Selma Blair), a clinically-
depressed,
aspiring
writer.
Supporting cast includes Christo-
pher Walken, Mia Farrow and
Jusin Bartha.
Knockdown (Unrated) Two-
fisted tale of redemption about a
disgraced boxer (Casey T. Evans),
‘Prometheus’
betrayed by a bookie, who moves
from St. Louis to Bangkok where
he secretly returns to the ring on
the underground circuit until his
past catches up with him when
he’s recognized by a mysterious
fight fan from his hometown.
June 6, 2012 The Portland Skanner Page 7