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Arts & Entertainment
Kam’s Kapsules: A Look at Movies Opening Friday, April 29, 2016
BIG BUDGET FILMS
Kam
Williams
Keanu (R for violence,
sexuality, nudity, drug
use and pervasive pro-
fanity) Suburbia meets
the ‘hood comedy about
a couple of bourgie cous-
ins
(Keegan-Michael
Key and Jordan Peele)
who pose as drug-deal-
ing gangstas in order
to rescue a beloved pet
from the ghetto. With
Nia Long, Will Forte and
Method Man.
ing up to Mother’s Day.
Cast includes Jennifer
Aniston, Jason Sudeikis,
Julia Roberts, Kate Hud-
son, Loni Love, Hector
Elizondo and Jon Lovitz.
Mother’s Day (PG-13
for profanity and sug-
gestive material) Ensem-
Ratchet & Clank (PG for
action and rude humor)
Animated
adaptation
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(Paul Giamatti) from de-
stroying every planet in
the galaxy. Voice cast in-
cludes Sly Stallone, John
Goodman, Bella Thorne,
Rosario Dawson and Jim
Ward.
Special
Correspon-
dents (Unrated) Ricky
Gervais wrote, directed
and co-stars in this re-
make of Envoyes Tres
Speciaux, the French
farce about a radio jour-
nalist (Eric Bana) and
assistant (Gervais) who
decide to fake their own
disappearance and flee
‘Mother’s Day’ opens one weekend before Mother’s Day
Benjamin Bratt.
INDEPENDENT &
FOREIGN FILMS
‘Keanu’
ble comedy revolving
around a cornucopia of
characters whose lives
serendipitously
inter-
sect over the course of a
very eventful week lead-
of the sci-fi video game
about a mechanic (James
Arnold Taylor) who
joins forces with a rene-
gade robot (David Kaye)
to prevent an evil alien
to New York during
an uprising in a South
American Banana Re-
public. With Vera Farmi-
ga, America Ferrara and
3rd Street Blackout
(Unrated) Romantic com-
edy about a tech-addicted
couple (Negin Farsad and
Jeremy Redleaf ) forced
by a Hurricane Sandy
power outage to face
each other sans electron-
ic devices. With Janeane
Garofalo, Devin Ratray
and Ed Weeks.
A Beautiful Planet (G)
Jennifer Lawrence nar-
rates this eco-documen-
tary examining humani-
ty’s relationship with the
Earth via footage shot
from the International
Space Station.
Dough (Unrated) Un-
likely-buddies dramedy
about a Jewish shop-
keeper (Jonathan Pryce)
Happy
Mother’s Day
who revives his failing
bakery with the help of
his Muslim apprentice’s
(Jerome Holder) mari-
juana-spiked yeast. With
Ian Hart, Philip Davis
and Malachi Kirby.
name about a promis-
ing math prodigy (Dev
Patel) brought to Cam-
bridge University from
the slums of India by a
professor (Jeremy Irons)
who recognized the kid’s
genius. Cast includes
Toby Jones, Stephen Fry
and Jeremy Northam. (In
Tamil and English with
subtitles)
The Family Fang (R for
profanity) Jason Bateman
directed this adaptation
of Kevin Wilson’s best-
seller about a brother
(Bateman) and sister’s
(Nicole Kidman) search
for their performance
artist parents (Christo-
pher Walken and Mary-
ann Plunkett) who disap-
peared without a trace.
Cast includes Kathryn
Hahn, Jason Butler Har-
ner and Marin Ireland.
Papa Hemingway in
Cuba (R for profanity,
sexuality, nudity and
some violence) Slice-of-
life biopic, set in Havana,
recounting the friend-
ship Ernest Hemingway
(Adrian Sparks) forged
with a reporter from
Miami (Giovanni Ribisi)
during the Cuban Revo-
lution. With Minka Kel-
ly, Mariel Hemingway,
James Remar and Joely
Richardson.
The Man Who Knew
Infinity (PG-13 for smok-
ing and mature themes)
Adaptation
of
the
best-seller of the same
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