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Arts & Entertainment
Kam’s Kapsules: Movies Opening Friday, March 31, 2017
BIG BUDGET FILMS
The Boss Baby (PG for
some mildly rude hu-
mor) Animated family
comedy about a preco-
cious infant (Alec Bald-
win) who teams up with
his 7 year-old brother
(Miles Christopher Bak-
shi) to foil the dastardly
plan of a diabolical CEO
(Steve Buscemi) deter-
mined to destabilize
feelings of love around
the world. Voice cast in-
cludes Jimmy Kimmel,
Lisa Kudrow, Tobey Ma-
guire, ViviAnn Yee and
Eric Bell, Jr.
Ghost in the Shell (PG-
13 for ) Futuristic sci-fi
based on the Japanese
comic book series of the
same name about a cy-
borg counter-terrorist
commander’s (Scarlett
Johansson) deployed to
prevent power-hungry
computer hackers from
purloining
powerful,
mind control technolo-
gy. With Pilou Asbaek,
Juliette Binoche and
Takeshi Kitano.
The Zookeeper’s Wife
(PG-13 for violence, dis-
turbing images, mature
themes, smoking, sexual-
ity and brief nudity) Jes-
sica Chastain plays the ti-
Kam
Williams
Kam’s
Kapsules
Movie
Reviews
tle character in this true
tale, set in Poland during
World War II, recount-
ing how a fearless wom-
an hid hundreds of Jews
during the Holocaust on
the grounds of the War-
saw Zoo. Cast includes
Daniel Bruhl, Johan Hel-
denbergh and Timothy
Radford.
INDEPENDENT &
FOREIGN FILMS
A� ermath (R for one
scene containing graph-
ic violence) Fact-based
docudrama
about
a
grief-stricken vigilante
(Arnold Schwarzeneg-
ger) who seeks to take
revenge on the air traf-
fi c controller (Scoot Mc-
Nairy) whose mistake
led to the crash which
claimed the lives of his
wife and daughter. Sup-
porting cast includes
Maggie Grace, Kevin Ze-
gers and Hannah Ware.
All This Panic (Unrat-
ed) Coming-of-age docu-
mentary, set in Brooklyn,
chronicling the transi-
tion of a group of teenage
girls from adolescence
to adulthood over the
course of three years.
Bwoy (Unrated) Homo-
erotic drama revolving
around a closeted, for-
mer physician (Anthony
Rapp) who starts cheat-
ing on his wife (De’Adre
Aziza) with a hunky
young Jamaican (Jim-
my Brooks) in the wake
of their son’s untimely
death. Featuring Jer-
maine Rowe, Drew Allen
and Ashton Randle.
Cexanne and I (R for
profanity, nudity and
sexual references) Bifur-
cated biopic chronicling
the lifelong friendship
of novelist/philosopher
Emile Zola (Guillaume
Canet) and Post-Impres-
sionist painter Paul
Cezanne (Guillaume Gal-
lienne). With Alice Pol,
Deborah Francois and
Pierre Yvon. (In French
with subtitles)
David Lynch: The Art
Life (Unrated) Prestige
biopic following David
Lynch as he discusses the
formative years of his
life which helped turn
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Ronni Lacroute
‘Live Cargo’
him into an iconoclastic
fi lm director.
God Knows Where I
Am (Unrated) Poignant
post mortem reenacting
the events leading to the
death by a starvation of
Linda Bishop, a home-
less woman who tried
to survive a harsh New
Hampshire winter in an
abandoned farmhouse
on apples and rain water.
Here Alone (Unrated)
Post-apocalyptic
sci-fi
thriller chronicling the
struggle of a young wom-
an (Lucy Walters) to sur-
vive in the wilderness in
the wake of a mysterious
epidemic that has deci-
mated civilization. Cast
includes Gina Piersanti,
Adam David Thompson
and Shane West. (In En-
glish and French with
subtitles)
Live Cargo (Unrated)
Crime thriller about a
couple (Dree Hemigway
and Lakeith Stanfi eld)
that retreats to an island
in the Bahamas to mourn
the loss of a baby, only
to become entangled in
a turf war between the
mayor (Robert Wisdom)
and a human traffi cker
(Leonard Earl Howze).
Co-starring Sam Dillon,
Ayumi Iizuka and Frantz
Lecoeur. (In English and
Creole with subtitles)
The Prison (Unrated)
Action thriller revolving
around an ex-cop (Rae-
won Kim) who pretends
to be a convict in order to
infi ltrate the crime syn-
dicate operating behind
bars responsible for the
murder of his younger
brother. With Woong-in
Jeong, Seok-Kyu Han and
Kim Sung Kyun. (In Ko-
rean with subtitles)