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Arts & Entertainment
Kam’s Kapsules: Movies
Opening Friday, May 27, 2016
Alice through the
Looking Glass (PG for
fantasy action, scenes of
peril and mild epithets)
Adaptation of Lewis Car-
roll’s sequel to Alice’s
Adventures in Wonder-
land finds Alice (Mia
Wasikowska) traveling
backwards in time in or-
der to save the Mad Hat-
ter (Johnny Depp) from
losing his mind. Ensem-
ble cast includes Helena
Bonham Carter, Anne
Hathaway, Sacha Baron
Cohen, Rhys Ifans and
Kam
Williams
Kam’s
Kapsules
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tary revisiting The Bud-
dhafield, an ill-fated, reli-
gious sect located in L.A.
in the Eighties which was
run by a charismatic cult
leader called Michel.
The Idol (Unrated)
Against-the-odds biopic
about Mohammed As-
the Canary Islands, re-
volving around a young
mother (Penelope Cruz)
recently diagnosed with
cancer who forges a
friendship with a soccer
scout (Luis Tovar) who
just lost his wife and
daughter in a car acci-
dent. With Asier Etxean-
dia, Teo Planell and Anna
Jimenez. (In Spanish with
subtitles).
Presenting Princess
Shaw (Unrated) Pres-
tige biopic about Sa-
mantha
Montgomery,
New Orleans healthcare
Show is the first to focus on Asian-Americans
since Margaret Cho’s ‘All-American Girl’
MICHAEL ANSELL/ABC VIA AP
BIG BUDGET FILMS
‘Fresh Off the Boat’ Team Reflects on
Breakthrough Sitcom
In this image released by ABC, from left, Ken Jeong, Lucille Soong, Forrest Wheeler, Ian Chen,
Hudson Yang, Randall Park and Constance Wu appear in a scene from “Fresh Off The Boat.” Jeong
guest stars in the season finale, airing Tuesday, May 24.
LYNN ELBER
AP Television Writer
‘The Idol’
the late Alan Rickman.
X-Men:
Apocalypse
(PG-13 for violence, ac-
tion, destructon, sugges-
tive images and brief pro-
fanity) 9th installment in
the franchise based on
the Marvel Comics series
finds Raven (Jennifer
Lawrence) and Profes-
sor Xavier (James McA-
voy) recruiting a team of
young X-Men to prevent
a seemingly immortal
and invincible mutant
(Oscar Isaac) from trig-
gering an extinction-lev-
el event. With Michael
Fassbender,
Nicholas
Hoult and Rose Byrne.
INDEPENDENT &
FOREIGN FILMS
Holy Hell (Unrated)
Mind control documen-
saf (Tawfeek Barhom),
the Palestinian kid from
Gaza who used a forged
visa to enter Egypt where
he proceeded to win the
2013 Arab Idol compe-
tition. With Ahmed Al
Rokh, Hiba Attalah and
Kais Attalah. (In Arabic
and Spanish with subti-
tles)
Jia Zhangke, A Guy
from Fenyang (Unrated)
Reverentail biopic about
Chinese filmmaker Jia
Zhangke unfolding from
the perspective of his
Brazilian colleague, Wal-
ter Salles. (In Mandarin
with subtitles)
Ma Ma (R for some
nudity and brief sexu-
al references) Charac-
ter-driven drama, set in
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April and the Extraordinary World
(Avril et le monde truqué) (PG)
Fri: 4:15 PM
Batman v Superman: Dawn of
Justice (PG-13)
Fri - Thu: 4:05 PM
worker-turned-Youtube
singing sensation with
the help of a stranger,
Kutman, a pioneering
composer/musician/vid-
eo artist located half a
world away in Israel.
Unlocking the Cage
(Unrated) Animal rights
documentary
chroni-
cling the efforts of attor-
ney Steven Wise to se-
cure personhood status
for primates, elephants
and whales.
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Deadpool (R)
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LOS ANGELES — Television is
mostly entertaining, sometimes
enlightening and, occasionally, can
make a difference.
The sitcom “Fresh Off the Boat”
hits all the marks. Because of it,
along with ABC siblings “black-ish”
and “Dr. Ken” (and, at CW, “Jane the
Virgin”), network TV’s American
family photo album is starting to
look authentic.
The contribution of “Fresh Off the
Boat” is especially notable. It’s the
first network prime-time comedy
about an Asian-American family
since Margaret Cho’s “All-American
Girl” in 1994, which lasted a season.
“Dr. Ken” star Ken Jeong (“Com-
munity,” ‘’The Hangover”) gladly
acknowledges that the success of
“Fresh Off the Boat” paved the way
for his series.
“Even if I wasn’t a part of any of it,
never in a million years would I have
thought any of this would happen,”
said Jeong, who guest stars in the
season finale of “Fresh Off the Boat,”
airing 8:30 p.m. EDT Tuesday. “It re-
ally is beyond satisfying” to see two
shows on the air and with characters
of different Asian origins, he said.
“Fresh Off the Boat” follows a Tai-
wanese-American family’s mostly
eager plunge into the melting pot
of the 1990s. On the flip side, “black-
ish” is about a contemporary Afri-
can-American family’s efforts to
hold on to its cultural identity. “Dr.
Ken,” about a Korean-American hus-
band and father, gives the formulaic
domestic sitcom a cheerful ethnic
tweak.
Without losing sight of their pri-
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