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-
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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’
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