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Arts & Entertainment
Kam’s Kapsules: Movies Opening Friday, March 10, 2017
BIG BUDGET FILMS
Kong: Skull Island (PG-
13 for action, intense vi-
olence and brief profan-
ity) Reboot of the King
Kong franchise, set in
1971, revolving around
an ill-fated expedition
to an uncharted Polyne-
sian island inhabited by
a horde of monsters led
by a giant ape. Ensem-
ble cast includes Samuel
L. Jackson, Brie Larson,
John C. Reilly, John Good-
Kam
Williams
Kam’s
Kapsules
Movie
Reviews
rated) Quirky mocku-
mentary, set in Denver,
highlighting the futile
attempt of aspiring ac-
tor/computer repairman
Arthur Martinez to kick-
‘Kong: Skull Island’
man, Corey Hawkins and
Tom Hiddleston.
INDEPENDENT &
FOREIGN FILMS
Actor Martinez (Un-
start his fledgling show-
biz career. With Mike
Ott, Cory Zacharia and
Nathan Silver.
Betting on Zero (Un-
rated) Incendiary Wall
Street
documentary
chronicling billionaire
hedge fund manager Bill
Ackman’s crusade ex-
posing Herbalife as the
biggest pyramid scheme
in history. Featuring ap-
pearances by corporate
raider Carl Icahn, grass
roots organizer Julie
Contreras and Herbalife
CEO Michael Johnson.
Brimstone (R for pro-
fanity, grisly violence,
graphic sexuality, dis-
turbing
images
and frontal nu-
dity)
Gruesome
Western
about
a wrongfully-ac-
cused,
frontier
woman (Dakota
Fanning)
who
tries to clear her
name while on
the run from a
vengeful preach-
er (Guy Pearce).
Support cast in-
cludes
Emilia
Jones, Carice van
Houten and Kit
Harington.
My Scientology Mov-
ie (Unrated) Faux docu-
mentary employing ac-
tors to recreate revealing
incidents reported by
disenchanted members
of the Church of Scientol-
‘The Ottoman Lieutenant’
ogy. Co-starring Andrew
Perez, Stacia Roybal and
Conner Stark as Tom
Cruise.
The Other Half (Un-
rated) Romance drama,
set in Toronto, revolving
around the love affair
between a grief-stricken
cab driver (Tom Cullen)
and a manic depressive
with a bipolar disorder
(Tatiana Maslany). With
Diana Bentley, Henry
Czerny and Emmanuel
Kabongo.
The Ottoman Lieu-
tenant (R for violence)
Romance drama, unfold-
ing at the outbreak of the
First World War, about
the love which blossoms
between a Turkish lieu-
tenant (Michiel Huis-
man) in the Imperial
Army and a headstrong,
American nurse (Hera
Hilmar) stationed at a
medical mission inside
the Ottoman Empire.
Supporting cast includes
Josh Hartnett, Haluk Bil-
giner and Sir Ben Kings-
ley.
Personal Shopper (R
for profanity, sexuality,
nudity and a bloody im-
age) Supernatural sus-
pense thriller, set in Par-
is, about a grief-stricken
American’s
(Kristen
Stewart) attempt to com-
municate with the ghost
of her recently-departed
twin brother. With Sig-
rid Bouaziz, Ty Olwin
and Lars Eidinger. (In En-
glish, French and Swed-
ish with subtitles)
Raw (R for aberrant
behavior,
gruesome
images, nudity, graph-
ic sexuality, profanity,
drug use and partying)
Grisly horror flick about
a 16-year-old vegan (Ga-
rance Marillier) who
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