Arts & Entertainment
Kam’s Kapsules: Movies Opening July 26
BIG BUDGET
FILMS
The Wolverine (PG-13
for sexuality, profanity and
intense violence) Sixth
installment in Marvel
Comics’ X-Men franchise,
set in Japan, finds Wolver-
ine
(Hugh
Jackman)
stripped of his invincibility
and locked in a life or death
battle with a mysterious fig-
ure from his past (Hiroyuki
Sanada) whose daughter
(Tao Okamoto) is his cur-
rent love interest. With
Famke Janssen, Will Yun
Lee and Brian Tee.
The To Do List (R for
profanity, graphic dialogue,
pervasive sexuality, crude
humor, and teen alcohol and
drug abuse) Aubrey Plaza
stars in this coming-of-age
comedy about a Miss
Goody Two-Shoes who
decides to lose her virginity
over the summer before she
goes off to college. Cast
includes Bill Hader, Andy
Samberg and Christopher
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by Kam
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INDEPENDENT &
FOREIGN FILMS
Blue Jasmine (PG-13 for
profanity, sexuality and
mature
themes)
Cate
Blanchett stars in the title
role of this dysfunctional
family drama, directed by
Woody Allen, about a neu-
rotic, New York City
socialite prompted by a life
crisis to travel from New
York to San Francisco to
reconnect with her long-
estranged sister (Sally
Hawkins). Ensemble cast
includes Alec Baldwin,
Andrew Dice Clay, Louis
C.K., Peter Sarsgaard and
Bobby Cannavale.
Breaking the Girls
(Unrated)
Complicated
crime thriller about a couple
of college coeds (Madeline
Zima and Agnes Bruckner)
who enter a pact to murder
each other’s enemies. Fea-
turing Sam Anderson,
Shawn Ashmore and Shan-
na Collins.
Drug War (Unrated)
Explosive crime thriller, set
in Tianjin, China, about a
convicted meth dealer
(Louis Koo) who fingers
members of his former drug
cartel in order to avoid the
death penalty. With Sun
Honglei, Haung Yi and Li
Jing. (In Mandarin with
subtitles)
Frankenstein’s Army (R
for profanity, graphic vio-
lence and grisly images)
Found footage horror flick
about a battalion of Russian
soldiers assaulted by an
army of Nazi zombies creat-
Frankenstein’s Army
ed in a lab by a mad scien-
tist (Karel Roden) and
unleashed by Hitler in a last
gasp to win World War II.
Co-starring Joshua Sasse,
Robert Gwilym and Alexan-
der Mercury.
Neander-Jin (Unrated)
Screwball comedy with a
Freudian twist about a
young woman (Sarah Muel-
hause) whose search for the
perfect mate ends when she
crosses paths with a 10,000
year-old Neanderthal Man
(Jon Chardiet). Supporting
cast features Milton Welsh,
Rick Zieff and Norbert
Alich.
The Time Being (Unrat-
ed) Suspense drama revolv-
ing around a struggling
artist (Wes Bentley) who
tries to save his marriage by
taking job doing surveil-
lance work for a reclusive
millionaire (Frank Langel-
la) with a hidden agenda.
Cast includes Sarah Paul-
son, Corey Stoll and Ahna
O’Reilly.
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