Arts & Entertainment
Opening This Week — For Movies Opening March 8
BIG BUDGET FILMS
Dead Man Down (R for
sexuality, violence and per-
vasive profanity) Multilay-
ered whodunit, set in NYC,
about a couple of grieving
neighbors (Colin Farrell
and Noomi Rapace) who
flirt before bonding because
of a mutual passion for
revenge. A-list cast includes
F.
Murray
Abraham,
Isabelle Huppert, Terrance
Howard, Dominic Cooper
and Armand Assante.
Oz the Great and Pow-
erful (PG-13 for action,
scary images and brief mild
epithets) James Franco stars
in this prequel to The Wiz-
ard of Oz as a shady circus
magician who gets a shot at
redemption after being
Dead Man Down
K AM ’ S
C APSULES
Movie
Reviews
by Kam
Williams
swept by a tornado from
Kansas to an enchanting,
faraway
land.
With
Michelle Williams, Mila
Kunis, Rachel Weisz, Bill
Cobbs and Zach Braff.
INDEPENDENT &
FOREIGN FILMS
The ABCs of Death
(Unrated) A to Z horror
flick, shot by 26 directors,
with each one’s segment
titled by a different letter of
the alphabet and illustrating
a unique way to die. Star-
ring Dallas Malloy, Lee
Hardcastle
and
Lucy
Clements.
Emperor (PG-13 for vio-
lence, smoking and brief
profanity) Romance drama
set in postwar Japan where a
U.S. General (Matthew
Fox) searches for an ex-girl-
friend
(Eriko Hatsune)
while deciding the fate of
Emperor Hirohito. With
Tommy Lee Jones, Aaron
Jackson and Kaori Momoi.
(In English and Japanese
with subtitles)
artists and working-class
families living in the com-
munity.
The Girl (PG-13 for pro-
fanity, violence, disturbing
images, smoking and
mature themes) Dysfunc-
tional family drama, set in
Texas, about a struggling
single-mother (Abbie Cor-
nish) who loses custody of
her son (Austin Wayne
West) to the foster care sys-
tem only to have things go
from bad to worse when she
gets caught trying to make
some easy money by smug-
gling an undocumented
alien across the border. With
Geoffrey Rivas, Austin
West and Will Patton.
Language of a Broken
Heart (Unrated) Romantic
comedy about a just-jilted,
love guru (Juddy Talt) who
abandons NYC for his
hometown of Rockford, Illi-
nois where he finds himself
falling for a free-spirited
bookseller (Julie White).
With Kate French, Oscar
Nunez and Lara Pulver.
Greedy Lying Bastards
(PG-13 for brief profanity)
Eco-documentary exposing
the corporate interests
thwarting scientists’ efforts
to inform the public that the
upsurge in droughts, wild-
fires, tornados, glacier loss
and wildfires are the result
of
man-made
climate
change. (In English and
Spanish with subtitles)
Gut Renovation (Unrat-
ed) Gentrification docu-
mentary chronicling the
erection of luxury condos in
the Williamsburg section of
Brooklyn by real estate
developers following the
eviction of the struggling
The Other Side of the
Ice (Unrated) Atlantic and
Pacific documentary chron-
icling a family’s attempt to
sail from Newport, Rhode
Island to Seattle, Washing-
ton by way of the treacher-
ous Northwest Passage.
The Silence (Unrated)
Copycat crime thriller about
a 13 year-old (Anna Lena
Klenke) who vanishes from
the same spot where another
little girl (Melina Fabian)
was raped and murdered
decades earlier by a handy-
man (Ulrich Thomsen)
never brought to justice.
With Wotan Wilke Mohring,
Katrin Sasz and Sebastian
Blomberg. (In German with
Oz the Great and Powerful
subtitles)
Somebody Up There
Likes Me (Unrated) Buddy
comedy about best friends
(Keith Poulson and Nick
Offerman) who are both in
love with the same woman
(Jess Wexler). Cast includes
Kevin Corrigan, Megan
Mullally and Stephanie
Hunt.
The We and the I (Unrat-
ed) Day-in-the-life drama
revolving
around
the
exploits of a group of
Bronx teens boarding a bus
at the start of their summer
vacation. Starring Joe Mele,
Meghan Murphy, Alex Raul
Barrios, Michael Brodie
and Teresa Lynn.
The We and the I
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