Arts & Entertainment
Kam’s Capsules: For Movies Opening Aug. 16
BIG BUDGET
FILMS
Jobs (PG-13 for drug use
and brief profanity) Ashton
Kutcher portrays Steve Jobs
in this reverential biopic
revisiting the early years in
the incomparable career of
the visionary entrepreneur
and Apple founder. Sup-
porting cast includes J.K.
Simmons,
Matthew
Modine, Lesley Ann Warren
and Dermot Mulroney.
Kick Ass-2 (R for sexual-
ity, graphic violence, crude
humor, pervasive profanity,
and brief nudity) Two-fisted
sequel finds the original’s
crime-fighting, pint-sized
heroine (Chloe Moretz)
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Hemsworth) who finds
himself caught in the mid-
dle of a deadly game of cat-
and-mouse being played by
a couple of rival billionaire
CEOs (Gary Oldman and
Harrison Ford). With
Richard Dreyfuss, Amber
Heard and Lucas Till.
INDEPENDENT &
FOREIGN FILMS
nic slurs, mature themes and
disturbing images) Forest
Whitaker stars in the title
role of this father-son saga,
set against the backdrop of
the African-American strug-
gle for Civil Rights,
recounting the real-life story
of a butler who served in the
White House under eight
presidents. A-list cast
Ain’t Them Bodies
Saints (Unrated) Fugitive
drama about an outlaw
(Casey Affleck) who makes
a daring escape from a
Texas prison in order to be
with his gun moll (Rooney
Mara) and the young daugh-
ter (Kennadie Smith) he’s
never met. With Ben Foster,
Keith Carradine and Nate
Parker.
Austenland (PG-13 for
sexual innuendo) Keri Rus-
sell stars in this romantic
comedy about an eligible
“Pride and Prejudice” fanat-
ic who travels to a Jane
Austen theme park in search
of Mr. Right. With Jennifer
Coolidge, Jane Seymour
and Bret McKenzie.
Cutie and Boxer (R for
nude images) Spousal abuse
biopic chronicling the
stormy, 40-year marriage of
eccentric NYC artists Ushio
and Noriko Shinohara.
The Patience Stone
forming a new team of
masked vigilantes to take on
an ally-turned-super villain
(Christopher Mintz-Plasse).
With Jim Carrey, Aaron
Johnson, Clark Duke, Don-
ald Faison and John
Leguizamo.
Lee Daniels’ The Butler
(PG-13 for violence, sexual-
ity, smoking, profanity, eth-
includes
Oscar-winners
Whitaker, Cuba Gooding,
Jr., Jane Fonda, Vanessa
Redgrave, Robin Williams
and Melissa Leo, as well as
nominees Terrence Howard
and Oprah Winfrey
Paranoia (PG-13 for pro-
fanity, sexuality and vio-
lence) Espionage thriller
about a rising corporate
superstar
(Liam
The Happy Sad (Unrat-
ed) Bifurcated Brooklyn
drama about two young
couples, one, black and gay
(Leroy McClain and Charlie
Barnett), the other, white
and heterosexual (Cameron
Scoggins and Sorel Carra-
dine), whose lives serendip-
itously intertwine as they
explore their sexual identity.
Lenny Kravitz, in “Lee Daniels’ The Butler”
Featuring Maria Dizzia,
Jamie Harrold and Sue Jean
Kim.
The Patience Stone (R
for profanity, sexuality and
violence) Female empower-
ment flick, set in war-torn
Afghanistan,
revolving
around a woman (Gol-
shifteh Farahani) who final-
ly summons up the courage
to share a lifetime’s worth
of frustrations with a hus-
band (Hamid Djavadan) left
paralyzed and in a vegeta-
tive state by a bullet in the
neck. With Hassina Burgan,
Massi Mrowat and Faiz
Fazli. (In Persian with subti-
tles)
Spark: A Burning Man
Story (Unrated) Back-to-
nature documentary offers a
revealing peek at the chal-
lenges involved in staging
an annual, week-long gath-
ering of 60,000 free-spirited
hippies in a temporary city
erected on a windswept
Nevada desert.
Standing Up (PG for bul-
lying, brief smoking, mild
epithets and mature themes)
Screen adaptation of “The
Goats,” Brock Cole’s young
adult novel about two kids
(Chandler Canterbury and
Annalise Basso) forced to
fend for themselves after
being stripped naked and
stranded on an island by fel-
low summer campers. With
Val Kilmer, Radha Mitchell
and Keith Flippen.
This Is Martin Bonner
(Unrated) Paul Eenhoorn
stars as the title character of
this unlikely-buddies drama
about a newcomer to Reno,
Nevada who forges a friend-
ship with a recent parolee
(Richmond Arquette) he
helps while volunteering at
a non-profit charity. With
Sam Buchanan, Robert
Longstreet and Demtrius
Grosse.
The Happy Sad
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