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Arts & Entertainment
Kam’s Kapsules: A Look at Movies Opening Friday, April 15, 2016
BIG BUDGET FILMS
Barbershop: The Next
Cut (PG-13 for profanity
and sexuality) Third in-
stallment of the urban
comedy franchise finds
Calvin (Ice Cube) and
company caught up in a
lighthearted battle of the
sexes when not fretting
over the gang violence
claiming so many lives
on Chicago’s South Side.
Ensemble cast includes
Regina Hall, Cedric the
Entertainer, Eve, Regi-
Kam
Williams
Jones, Ryan Reynolds,
Alice Eve and Gary Old-
man.
Kam’s
Kapsules
Movie
Reviews
The Jungle Book (PG
for scenes of peril and
scary action) Live-action/
CGI remake of the Disney
animated classic revolv-
ing around an orphan
(Neel Sethi) raised in the
forest by a panther (Ben
Kingsley), a bear (Bill
Murray) and a couple of
wolves (Lupita Nyong’o
and Giancarlo Esposi-
to). Cast includes Idris
Elba, Scarlett Johansson,
Christopher Walken and
the late Garry Shandling.
Criminal (R for graphic
violence and pervasive
profanity)
Suspense
thriller about a recent-
ly-deceased CIA agent
(Gal Gadot) whose memo-
ry and skills are implant-
INDEPENDENT &
FOREIGN FILMS
Shown here with her CGI counterpart is Lupita Nyong’o who voices
the wolf Raksha in ‘The Jungle Book’
na Hall, Common, J.B.
Smoove, Anthony An-
derson, Nicki Minaj and
Deon Cole.
ed into the brain of a dan-
gerous convict (Kevin
Costner) in a desperate
attempt to foil a terror-
ist plot. With Tommy Lee
13 Cameras (Unrated)
Psychological
thriller
about a couple of newly-
weds (PJ McCabe and Bri-
anne Moncrief ) whose
Peeping Tom landlord
(Neville Archambault)
invades their privacy
by secretly installing
surveillance cameras all
around their new home.
With Sarah Baldwin,
Sean Carrigan and Jim
Cummings.
The Adderall Diaries
(R for sexuality, drug
use, disturbing content
and pervasive profani-
‘Barbershop: The Next Cut’
ty) James Franco stars in
this adaptation of report-
er Stephen Elliott’s mem-
oir of the same name
recounting his struggle
with substance abuse
and writer’s block while
covering a bizarre mur-
der trial. Cast includes
Amber Heard, Cynthia
Nixon, Ed Harris, Chris-
tian Slater and Wilmer
Valderrama.
Hostile Border (R for
violence, profanity, nudi-
ty and graphic sexuality)
American Dream drama
about an undocumented
immigrant’s (Veronica
Sixtos) attempt to return
to the U.S. after being de-
ported to Mexico by the
FBI for credit card fraud.
With Jesse Garcia, Jorge
Jimenez and Julio Cedil-
lo. (In English and Span-
ish with subtitles)
Mirbeck. (In French with
subtitles)
Our Last Tango (Un-
rated) Reverential biopic
chronicling the 50-year
career and enduring re-
lationship of the most
famous dance partners
in the history of the Tan-
go, Argentina’s Maria
Nieves Rego and Juan
Carlos Copes. (In Spanish
with subtitles)
The Measure of a Man
(Unrated) Midlife cri-
sis drama, set in France,
about the humiliations
suffered by a blue-collar
worker (Vincent Lindon)
while trying to find em-
ployment after being laid
off from his factory job.
Support cast includes
Yves
Ory,
Matthieu
Schaller and Karine de
Sing Street (PG-13
for profanity, mature
themes, bullying, drug
use, teen smoking and a
suggestive image) Com-
ing-of-age tale, set in
Dublin in the Eighties,
revolving around a trou-
bled 14 year-old (Ferdia
Walsh-Peelo) who runs
away from home to start
a rock band in London.
With Aidan Gillen, Jack
Reynor and Maria Doyle
Kennedy.
Sky (Unrated) Marital
crisis drama about a bat-
tered French woman (Di-
ane Kruger) who leaves
her husband (Gilles
Lellouche) for parts un-
known while they’re
vacationing in Califor-
nia. Cast includes Lena
Dunham, Norman Ree-
dus and Lou Diamond
Phillips. (In English and
French with subtitles)
The Syndrome (Unrat-
ed) Criminal justice ex-
pose’ debunking the junk
science
underpinning
the diagnosis of Shaken
Baby Syndrome which
has led to the conviction
and incarceration of
many an innocent per-
son.
Kam Williams
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