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.
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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.