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Arts & Entertainment
Kam’s Kapsules: A Look at Movies Opening Friday, April 8, 2016
professional hit man on
the run from miffed mob-
sters. With Tim Roth,
RZA, Anson Mount and
James Ransone.
Kam
Williams
Kam’s
Kapsules
Movie
Reviews
Vita Activa: The Spirit
of Hannah Arendt (Un-
rated) Thought-provok-
ing documentary revisit-
ing the checkered career
BIG BUDGET FILMS
The Boss (R for sexuali-
ty, profanity and brief
drug use) Melissa McCa-
rthy plays the title char-
acter in this comedy
about a business tycoon
convicted of insider trad-
ing who attempts to re-
brand herself as Ameri-
ca’s sweetheart after her
release from prison. Cast
includes Kathy Bates,
Kristen
Bell,
Cecily
Strong and Peter Din-
klage.
Demolition (R for pro-
fanity, drug use, disturb-
ing behavior and some
sexual references) Bitter-
sweet dramedy about a
recently-widowed
in-
vestment banker (Jake
Gyllenhaal) who finds an
unlikely shoulder to cry
on in a cash-strapped,
customer service rep
(Naomi Watts) with a
company he has a gripe
with. Featuring Heather
Lind, Judah Lewis, Chris
of Hannah Arendt (1906-
1975), the self-hating Jew-
ish philosopher who es-
caped Europe during the
Holocaust only to later
express sympathy for
Nazi war criminals like
Adolph Eichmann. (In
English, Hebrew and
German with subtitles)
FILM REVIEW:
‘Miles Ahead’
Melissa McCarthy stars in ‘The Boss’ opening this week
Cooper and Royce John-
son.
INDEPENDENT &
FOREIGN FILMS
Hardcore Henry (R for
pervasive profanity, in-
cessant mayhem and
graphic violence, sexual-
ity, nudity and drug use)
Revenge thriller, set in
Moscow, about a vigilan-
te’s attempt to rescue his
wife (Haley Bennett)
who’s been kidnapped by
a
Russian
warlord
(Danila Kozlovsky) with
an army of assassins.
Cast includes Sharlto Co-
pley, Tim Roth and Will
Stewart. (In English and
Russian with subtitles)
Havana Motor Club
(Unrated) Classic car
documentary about Cu-
ba’s first, state-sanc-
tioned drag race since
1960. (In Spanish and En-
glish with subtitles)
High Strung (PG for
mature themes and mild
epithets) Romance dra-
ma about a Manhattan
street musician (Nicho-
las Galitzine) and a ballet
student from the Mid-
west (Keenan Kampa)
who fall in love at first
sight upon her arrival in
New York City. With Jane
Seymour, Sonoya Mizu-
no and Paul Freeman.
Look at Us Now, Moth-
er
(Unrated)
Gayle
Kirschenbaum directed
this dysfunctional family
documentary
chroni-
cling her decades-long
challenging relationship
with her mother.
Mr. Right (R for vio-
lence and pervasive pro-
fanity) Romantic comedy
about a woman (Anna
Kendrick) who becomes
smitten with an intrigu-
ing suitor (Sam Rock-
well) unaware that he’s a
Cheadle Channels Legendary Jazz
Great in Warts-and-all Biopic
By Kam Williams
For The Skanner News
I
t’s no secret
that
Don
Cheadle want-
ed to make a
movie
about
Miles Davis (1926-
1991) for over a de-
cade. Well, the
wait is finally
over for jazz fans
eager to see the
warts-and-all bi-
opic chronicling
some of the highs
and lows of the
legendary trum-
Don Cheadle as Miles Davis
peter’s checkered
career.
Cheadle not only produced, directed, and co-
wrote his labor of love, but handles the title
See MILES on page 8