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Arts & Entertainment Kam’s Kapsules: Movies Opening This Friday, July 31 BIG BUDGET FILMS Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (PG-13 for action, violence and brief partial nudity) Fifth install- ment of the espionage fran- chise finds Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) reassembling his crack team of spies to take out the international syn- dicate of deadly assassins targeting IMF agents. Cast includes Jeremy Renner, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Alec Baldwin and Rebecca Ferguson. Vacation (R for brief male frontal nudity, sexuality, crude humor and pervasive profanity) Seventh install- ment in the National Lam- poon franchise revolving around now-grown Rusty Griswold’s (Ed Helms) nos- talgic, cross-country road trip back to Walley World amusement park, family in tow. Featuring Christina Ap- plegate, Skyler Gisondo and Steele Stebbins, with Chris Hemsworth, Leslie Mann, Regina Hall, Keegan-Mi- chael Key and Michael Pena in support roles, as well as cameo appearances by orig- inal cast members Chevy Chase and Beverly D’An- gelo. Kam’s Capsules Movie Reviews by Kam Williams INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Best of Enemies (R for sexuality, nudity and pro- fanity) File footage docu- mentary featuring the series of nine, nationally-tele- vised, live-TV debates be- tween liberal Gore Vidal and arch-conservative Wil- liam F. Buckley covering such hot-button topics as politics, religion and sexual- ity, which degenerated into name-calling affairs where the pair referred to each oth- er as a “crypto-Nazi” and a “queer.” Includes commen- tary by Dick Cavett, Kelsey Grammer, Noam Chomsky, John Lithgow and the late Christopher Hitchens. The End of the Tour (R for profanity and some sex- ual references) Road flick revolving around the five- day interview conducted by Rolling Stone reporter Da- Tom Cruise and Rebecca Ferguson in “Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation,” which opens this Friday. vid Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) with the late David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel) while the troubled scribe was on a book tour for his inscruta- ble, 1,000-page best-seller, “Infinite Jest.” With Ron Livingston, Anna Chumsky and Joan Cusack. rated) Reverential retro- spective about the life of the late comedian from his meteoric rise to an early demise. Featuring reminis- engagement. Ensemble cast includes Grace Gummer, Alexis Bledel and Matthew Metzger. I Am Chris Farley (Un- The Pilgrim: Paulo Coelho’s Best Story (Un- rated) Against-the-odds bi- opic tracing the Brazilian writer’s (Julio Andrade) rise from humble roots and mental illness to best-selling author of”The Alchemist” and dozens of other novels. (In Portuguese and Spanish with subtitles) Katherine Heigl and Alexis Bledel as engaged couple Jenny and Kitty in Jenny’s Wedding cences by colleagues like Adam Sandler, Mike Myers, Dan Aykroyd, David Spade, Bob Saget, Molly Shannon and Jon Lovitz. Jenny’s Wedding (PG- 13 for mature themes and a crude sexual reference) Katherine Heigl plays the title character in this out- of-the-closet comedy about a lesbian who only informs her homophobic parents (Linda Emond and Tom Wilkinson) that she’s gay the day she and her longtime “roommate” announce their The Kindergarten Teacher (Unrated) Coming- of-age drama, set in Jeru- salem and Tel Aviv, revolv- ing around a kindergarten teacher (Sarit Larry) who takes a special interest in a precocious, five year-old poet (Avi Shnaidman). With Lior Raz, Jil Ben David and Ester Rada. (In Hebrew with subtitles) A LEGO Brickumentary (G) More than a toy docu- mentary, narrated by Jason Bateman, examining LEGO as a cultural phenomenon. Audition Notice PassinArt: A Theater Company is holding open au- ditions for its upcoming Fall Production of Tommy J. & Sally by Mark Medoff Saturday August 8, 11am – 3pm at PassinArt’s office, 825 NE 20th Lower Level Conference Room. The company is seeking 2 actors one male and fe- male, between 23-35 years. Please bring a headshot, or current photo (if you do not have one, one will be take the day of the audition) resume. Please be pre- pared to read. Sides from the play will be provided. To schedule an audition, please call 503-235.8079 and leave your name and number or email your infor- mation to passinart@yahoo.com. Page 6 July 29, 2015 The Portland and Seattle Skanner Listen to Me Marlon (Unrated) Vanity biop- ic chronicling the life and times of Marlon Brando from the late screen icon’s own perspective as pre- served in his personal ar- chive of home videos and audio recordings. The Seventh Dwarf (Un- rated) Animated variation of the Snow White fairytale finds the seven dwarfs em- barking on a perilous adven- ture in search of a prince to revive a sleeping princess (Peyton List) with a kiss and thereby awaken the somno- lent kingdom from a centu- ry-long slumber. Voice cast includes Nina Hagen, Cam- eron Elvin and Norm Mac- Donald. Staten Island Summer (R for sexuality, nudity, crude humor, drug use, teen partying and pervasive pro- fanity) Raunchy teensploita- tion flick revolving around a couple of recent high school grads (Graham Phillips and Zack Pearlman) who take summer jobs as lifeguards while trying to decide what to do next with their lives. With Kate McKinnon, Bob- by Moynihan, Will Forte, Method Man, Fred Armisen, Cecily Strong and Jim Gaf- figan. That Sugar Film (Un- rated) Super Size Me-style expose’ written and directed by Damon Gameau in which the Aussie actor conducts an experiment on his own body to illustrate the deleterious effects of a high-sugar diet.
