Arts & Entertainment
Movies Opening This Week — November 2, 2012
BIG BUDGET FILMS
Flight (R for drug and
alcohol abuse, nudity, sexu-
ality and an intense action
sequence) Denzel Washing-
ton stars in this legal thriller
about a hero pilot who tries
to hide his alcohol addiction
with the help of a defense
attorney (Don Cheadle)
after miraculously crash-
landing
a
crippled
co m mercial airliner by fly-
ing the plane upside-down.
With John Goodman, Melis-
sa Leo and Kelly Reilly.
The Man with the Iron
Fists (R for profanity, drug
use, graphic sexuality and
gory violence) Gangsta’
rapper-turned-actor makes
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Reviews
by Kam
Williams
his scriptwriting and direc-
torial debut while starring in
this martial arts saga, set in
19th C. China, about a hum-
ble blacksmith who invents
an assortment of elaborate
weapons for the defense of
his adopted hometown
when the town is invaded by
an army of assassins search-
The Man with the Iron Fists
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ing for a fabled treasure.
With Russell Crowe, Lucy
Liu, Pam Grier, Rick Yune
and Jamie Chung.
Wreck-It Ralph (PG for
crude humor and mild vio-
lence) John C. Reilly plays
the title role in this animat-
ed comedy about a
computer game villain who
makes the most of an
opportunity to play a good
guy after escaping to a
neighboring video arcade
game. Voice cast includes
Sarah Silverman, Jane
Lynch, Dennis Haysbert,
Mindy Kaling, Ed O’Neill
and
Adam
Carolla.
INDEPENDENT &
FOREIGN FILMS
The Bay (R for profanity,
bloody images and disturb-
ing violence) Oscar-winner
Barry Levinson (Rain Man)
directed this gruesome hor-
ror flick about the chaos
which erupts in a quaint
Maryland town in the wake
of an ecological disaster.
Featuring Kristen Connelly,
Jane McNeill, Christopher
Denham and Michael
Beasley.
Bones Brigade (Unrated)
Skateboarding retrospective
recounting the Eighties
exploits of a half-dozen Cal-
ifornia
teens
who
transformed the sport from a
horizontal to an omni-direc-
tional endeavor. With Stacy
Peralta, Tony Alva, Ben
Harper and Tony Hawk.
Vamps (PG-13 for vio-
lence, sexuality, profanity
and drug use. Alicia Silver-
stone and Krysten Ritter
co-star in this horror come-
dy about a couple of
club-addicted party girls
who have to hide the fact
that they’re vampires while
dating up a storm around
Manhattan. Cast includes
Richard Lewis, Sigourney
Weaver, Malcolm McDow-
ell, Marilu Henner and
Wallace Shawn.
This Must Be the Place
(Unrated) Sean Penn stars in
this revenge flick as a
retired rock star living off
his royalties in Ireland who
crisscrosses the American
heartland to track down the
Nazi war criminal (Heinz
Lieven) that had tortured his
recently-deceased father at
Auschwitz. With Frances
McDormand, Judd Hirsch
and David Byrne. (In Eng-
lish and Hebrew with
subtitles)
Café de Flore (Unrated)
Double-stranded meditation
on love, one, set in present-
day Montreal, the other, in
Paris in the Sixties. The for-
mer revolves around a DJ
(Kevin Parent) torn between
a
girlfriend
(Evelyne
Brochu) and his ex-wife
(Helene Florent), while the
latter is about an overpro-
tective
single-mom’s
Vamps
(Vanessa Paradis) devotion
to a son with Down Syn-
drome (Marin Gerrier).
With Alice Dubois, Michel
Dumont and Linda Smith.
(In French with subtitles)
The Details (R for pro-
Washington and Laura Lin-
ney.
Gregory
Crewdson:
Brief Encounters (Unrat-
ed) Shutterbug biopic
chronicling the career of a
photographer famous for
This Must be The Place
fanity, sexuality, drug use
and brief violence) Macabre
comedy about an estranged
couple already in crisis
(Elizabeth Banks and Tobey
Maguire) whose troubles
only escalate when a family
of raccoons invades their
backyard. Supporting cast
includes Ray Liotta, Kerry
taking surreal snapshots of
American suburban life.
High Ground (Unrated)
PTSD documentary about a
team of Iraq and Afghan
War veterans who were led
by a blind guide on a per-
ilous trek to the 20,000
foot-high peak of the
Himalayas