Arts & Entertainment
Kam’s Kapsules: Movies Opening This Friday, July 3
BIG BUDGET FILMS
Kam’s
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Movie
Reviews
by Kam
Williams
fanity) Reboot of the sci-fi
franchise, set in 2029, finds
John Connor (Jason Clarke)
again leading the resistance
in humanity’s ongoing war
with the cyborgs. Cast in-
cludes Arnold Schwarzeneg-
ger, JK Simmons, Emilia
Clarke, Dayo Okeniyi,
Matt Smith, Courtney B.
Vance and Jai Courtney.
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Faith of Our Fathers
(PG-13 for brief violence)
Christian-oriented
drama
about two strangers (Kev-
in Downes and David A.R.
White) who bond while
driving from Mississippi
to Washington, DC with
plans to locate where their
killed-in-action dads’ names
were engraved in the Viet-
nam War Memorial. With
Stephen Baldwin, Candace
Cameron Bure and Rebecca
St. James.
Magic Mike XXL (R for
nudity, drug use, graph-
ic sexuality and pervasive
profanity) Channing Tatum
reprises the title role in this
titillating sequel which finds
what’s left of the Kings of
Tampa reuniting to perform
at the annual strippers con-
vention in Myrtle Beach,
South Carolina. Ensemble
cast includes Jada Pinkett
Smith, Adam Rodriguez,
Amber Heard, Andie Mac-
Dowell, Stephen “tWitch”
Boss, Michael Strahan and
Gabriel Iglesias.
Amy (R for profanity and
drug use) Bittersweet biopic
revisiting the rise and fall
of Grammy-winner Amy
Winehouse who died of
alcohol poising in 2011 at
the age of 27. Featuring ap-
pearances by Tony Bennett,
Mark Ronson and Mos Def.
Stephen Baldwin appears in ‘Faith of Our Fathers,’ opening nationwide this weekend.
Terminator
Genisys
(PG-13 for intense violence,
partial nudity and brief pro-
Cartel Land (Unrated)
Drug wars documentary
chronicling the vigilante up-
In Stereo (Unrated) Ro-
mantic dramedy about the
on-again/off-again
rela-
tionship of a couple of thir-
INDEPENDENT &
FOREIGN FILMS
rising led by a small-town
physician trying to topple
the cartel wreaking havoc
on Michoacan, Mexico. (In
English and Spanish with
subtitles)
ty-somethings (Beau Garrett
and Micah Hauptman) who
take forever to wake up and
realize they were meant for
each other. With Maggie
Geha, Aimee Mullins and
Mario Cantone.
Jackie & Ryan (PG-13
for suggestive material and
brief profanity) Romance
drama revolving around the
unlikely love which blos-
soms between a train-hop-
ping hobo (Ben Barnes) and
a socialite (Katherine Heigl)
embroiled in a nasty, child
custody battle. Support cast
includes Clea DuVall, Sher-
yl Lee and Nathan Stevens.
to the U.S. a decade earli-
er during the “Red Scare.”
With Francis Magee, Aileen
Henry and Simone Kirby.
Mala Mala (Unrated)
Genderbending documen-
tary celebrating the lives
of nine members of Puerto
Rico’s transgender and drag
queen communities. (In
Spanish and English with
subtitles)
Stray Dog (Unrated) Rev-
erential biopic about Ron
Hall, a biker with a heart of
gold who has devoted his
life to helping pet pooches,
Jimmy’s Hall (PG-13 for
profanity and a scene of vio-
lence) Barry Ward plays the
title character in this histor-
ical drama revolving around
the return to Ireland in 1932
of Jimmy Gralton, a Com-
munist organizer deported
friends, family and fellow
Vietnam vets.
Zarafa (Unrated) An-
imated adventure, set in
the 19th Century, about a
10 year-old runaway slave
(Max Renaudin Pratt) who
flees sub-Saharan Africa
across the desert on the back
of a giraffe before sailing
to Paris with the help of a
Greek princess-turned-pi-
rate (Ronit Elkabetz). Voice
cast includes Simon Abkar-
ian, Roger Dumas and Mo-
hamed Fellag. (In French
with subtitles)
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