Arts & Entertainment
Movie Openings for Friday, June 13
By Kam Williams
For The Skanner News
BIG BUDGET
FILMS
22 Jump Street (R for
sexuality, violence, drug
use, brief nudity and perva-
sive profanity) Jonah Hill
and Channing Tatum reprise
students to crack a narcotics
ring operating on campus.
With Ice Cube, Amber
Stevens and Nick Offerman.
How to Train Your
Dragon 2 (PG for action
and mildly rude humor)
Animated adventure, set
five years after the original,
pits Hiccup (Jay Baruchel)
mon Hounsou) bent on
world domination. Voice
cast
includes
Cate
Blanchett, Jonah Hill, Kris-
ten Wiig, America Ferrara,
Gerard Butler and Craig
Ferguson.
INDEPENDENT &
FOREIGN FILMS
The Amazing Catfish
(Unrated) Strange bedfel-
lows dramedy about a
lonely supermarket clerk
(Ximena Ayala) with appen-
dicitis who finds herself
befriended by her hospital
roommate (Lisa Owen) and
family.
Support
cast
includes (Sonia Franco,
Wendy Guillen and Andrea
Baeza). (In Spanish with
subtitles)
22 Jump Street
their roles as ill-matched
LAPD partners, this time
going undercover as college
and his faithful pet, Tooth-
less, against a diabolical,
cave-dwelling villain (Dji-
Burning Bush (Unrated)
Czech docudrama, set in
1969, chronicling the stu-
dent protests of the Soviet
invasion of Prague launched
by a martyr who set himself
on fire. Starring Tatiana
Pauhofova, Jaroslave Poko-
rna and Petr Stach. (In
Czech with subtitles)
A
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in
Berlin
the Signal
(Unrated)
Tragicomedy
about a just-jilted college
student (Tom Schilling)
who drops out of school
after being cut off financial-
ly by his father (Ulrich
Noethen) only to end up
aimlessly wandering around
the streets of Berlin. With
Katharina
Schuttler,
Andreas Schroders and
Marc Hosemann. (In Ger-
man and English with
subtitles)
Evergreen
(Unrated)
Cannabis
documentary
examining the state of
affairs in Washington after
the legalization of the recre-
ational use of marijuana.
Hellion (Unrated) Dys-
functional family drama
about a juvenile delinquent
(Josh Wiggins), being raised
by an emotionally-distant,
widowed dad (Aaron Paul),
whose anti-social behavior
leads Child Protective Serv-
ices to award custody of his
imperiled little brother
(Deke Garner) to their very
protective aunt (Juliette
Lewis). Supporting cast
includes Augustine Frizzell,
Jonny Mars and Annalee
Jeffries.
I Am I (Unrated) Father-
daughter drama about the
frustrations encountered by
a young woman (Jocelyn
Towne) who belatedly
befriends the brain-dam-
aged dad she’s never known
(Kevin Tighe) when he
shows up unexpectedly at
her mother’s funeral. With
Simon Helberg, Jason Ritter
and James Morrison.
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