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Arts & Entertainment
Kam’s Kapsules: For Movies Opening May 23
By Kam Williams
For The Skanner News
BIG BUDGET
FILMS
Blended (PG-13 for pro-
fanity, sexuality and crude
humor) Adam Sandler and
Drew Barrymore reunite for
their third romantic comedy
(after The Wedding Singer
and 50 First Dates), this go-
round as a widower and
divorcee who continue see-
ing each other despite a
disastrous blind date. With
Terry Crews, Kevin Nealon,
Wendi McLendon-Covey,
Dan Patrick and Shaquille
O’Neal.
X-Men: Days of Future
Past (PG-13 for nudity, pro-
fanity, suggestive material
and intense violence) Latest
installment of the Marvel
Comics franchise finds a
confederacy of mutants
traveling back in time to
join forces with their
younger selves in order to
change the past to preserve
the future. Cast includes
Jennifer Lawrence, Halle
Berry, Ellen Page, Anna
Paquin, Hugh Jackman and
Michael Fassbender.
INDEPENDENT &
FOREIGN FILMS
The Angriest Man in
Brooklyn (R for sexuality
and pervasive profanity)
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Robin Williams plays the
title character in this remake
of The 92 Minutes of Mr.
Baum, an Israeli dramedy
about an obnoxious jerk
who tries to make amends
with everyone he’s ever
offended
after
being
informed by his doctor
(Mila Kunis) that he only
has an hour-and-a-half left
to live. With Melissa Leo,
James Earl Jones and Peter
Dinklage.
Cold in July (Unrated)
Crime thriller, set in East
Texas in the Eighties, about
a family man (Michael C.
Hall) worried about the
arrival in town of the
revenge-minded
father
(Sam Shepard) of the bur-
glar he shot to death during
a home invasion. With Don
Johnson, Vinessa Shaw and
Wyatt Russell.
The Dance of Reality
(Unrated) Auto-biopic writ-
ten, produced and directed
by Renaissance Man Ale-
jandro
Jodorowsky,
revisiting his own child-
hood in Chile, and featuring
Jeremias Herskovits as his
boyhood self. Co-starring
Brontis Jodorowsky, Adan
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Korengal
Jodorowsky and Axel
Jodorowsky, courtesy of
nepotism-inspired casting.
(In Spanish with subtitles)
Gore Vidal: The United
States of Amnesia (Unrat-
ed)
Reverential
retrospective about Gore
Vidal (1925-2012), featur-
ing archival footage of the
best-selling novelist, politi-
cal essayist and gay gadfly
bemoaning the triumph of
conservatism and corpora-
tions over liberalism and
humanistic values.
Grand Depart (Unrated)
Sibling rivalry drama about
two brothers (Jeremie Elka-
im and Pio Marmai) whose
lives are thrown into turmoil
by their father’s declining
health (Eddy Mitchell).
With Chantal Lauby, Zoe
Felix and Benjamin Rol-
land. (In French with
subtitles)
Korengal (Unrated)
Sequel to the Oscar-nomi-
nated
documentary
Restrepo, directed by
Sebastian Junger (A Perfect
Storm), serves up another
slice of the War in
Afghanistan from the point
of view of a decimated pla-
toon of American soldiers
stationed in a very vulnera-
ble valley surrounded by
Taliban fighters on a suicide
mission.
Lila, Lila (Unrated)
Screen adaptation of the
Martin Suter novel of the
same name about a waiter
(Daniel Bruhl) desperate to
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