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Arts & Entertainment Opening This Week — For Movies Opening Aug. 3 BIG BUDGET FILMS Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (PG for rude humor) Third installment in the underdog-friendly fran- chise finds hapless protagonist Greg (Zachary Gordon) hanging out with his portly pal Rowley (Robert Capron) and pre- tending to be employed at a country club after all his summer vacation plans fall through. With Steve Zahn, Devon Bostick and Rachael Harris. Total Recall (PG-13 for profanity, sexuality, brief nudity and intense violence) Colin Farrell stars in this remake of the Schwarzeneg- ger, sci-fi classic as a factory worker plagued by disturbing nightmares who ends up on the run from the brain police accompanied by a member of the resist- K AM ’ S C APSULES Movie Reviews by Kam Williams ance (Jessica Biel) of corpo- rate mind control. Co-starring Ethan Hawke, Bill Nighy, Kate Beckin- sale, John Cho and Bokeem Woodbine. INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS 360 (R for sexuality, nudi- ty and profanity) Screen adaptation of La Ronde, Arthur Schnitzler’s class- conscious play exploring the sexual mores of a peri- patetic jet set spread out over Vienna, Paris, London, ‘Total Recall’ Denver, Phoenix, Rio de Janeiro and Bratislava. Ensemble includes Anthony Hopkins, Ben Foster, Jude Law and Rachel Weisz. while simultaneously pursu- ing new relationships. Cast includes Elijah Wood, Emma Roberts, Ari Graynor and Eric Christian Olsen. Assassin’s Bullet (R for violence) International thriller about a U.S. Ambas- sador stationed in Europe (Donald Sutherland) who enlists the assistance of a former FBI Agent (Christ- ian Slater) in order to track down the vigilante killing terrorists on America’s 10 Most Wanted list. With Elika Portnoy, Timothy Spall and Marian Valev. You’ve Been Trumped (Unrated) David and Goliath documentary about the legal battle mounted in Scotland by locals to block Donald Trump’s application for a zoning variance that would allow the smug bil- lionaire to turn a picturesque seaside village into a luxury golf resort. The Babymakers (Unrat- ed) Biological clock comedy about a sterile, wannabe daddy (Paul Schneider) who recruits his buddies and an East Indian mobster (Jay Chan- drasekhar) to steal the sperm he sold to a fertility clinic years ago so that he might still impregnate his miserably-childless wife (Olivia Munn). With Aisha Tyler, Wood Harris and Noureen DeWulf. Celeste and Jesse For- ever (R for profanity, sexuality and drug use) On the rocks dramedy revolv- ing around the effort of an almost-divorced couple (Rashida Jones and Andy Samberg) to remain friends Dreams of a Life (Unrat- ed) Maudlin post mortem revisiting the unnoticed demise of Joyce Vincent (Zawe Ashton), a British woman of Caribbean extrac- tion whose body wasn’t discovered until several years after she passed away of natural causes while iron- ically wrapping Christmas presents for family and friends. With Neelam Bak- shi, Jonathan Harden and Lee Colley. Mosquita y Mari (Unrat- ed) Coming-of-age drama, set in Southern California, about a 15 year-old Latina ‘The Babymakers’ (Fenessa Pineda) who bonds with a new neighbor (Venecia Troncoso) her age only to be surprised when their friendship blossoms into a lesbian relationship. Support cast includes Joaquin Garrido, Laura Patalano and Dulce Maria Solis. (In Spanish and Eng- lish with subtitles) ‘You’ve Been Trumped’ August 1, 2012 The Portland Skanner Page 7 f A w e t i m S ( V C R M ( m o y b i c o
