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Arts & Entertainment
Kam’s Kapsules: Movies Opening Friday, June 16, 2017
BIG BUDGET FILMS
47 Meters Down (PG-
13 for bloody images,
intense peril and brief
profanity)
Harrowing
tale of survival revolv-
ing around two sisters
(Mandy
Moore
and
Claire Holt) vacationing
in Mexico whose scuba
diving adventure turns
into a desperate fight for
their lives when their
cage drops to the ocean
floor, leaving them sur-
rounded by great white
sharks and with less than
an hour of oxygen. Fea-
turing Matthew Modine,
Yani Gellman and Santia-
go Segura.
All Eyez on Me (R for
violence, nudity, sexual-
ity pervasive profanity
and frequent drug use)
Revealing biopic relat-
ing the untold story of
Tupac Shakur (Demetri-
us Shipp, Jr.), the talent-
ed hip-hop artist, actor
and political activist who
became a victim of the
East Coast-West Coast
rap wars when he was
gunned down in a drive-
by shooting at the tender
age of 25. Co-starring Kat
Graham, Danai Gurira
and Jamal Woolard.
Kam
Williams
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Cars 3 (G) Third in-
stallment in the animat-
ed auto franchise finds
Lightning
McQueen
(Owen Wilson) relying
on the skills of a talented
young mechanic (Cris-
tela Alonzo) to compete
against a new generation
of blazing-fast racers.
Voice cast includes Ker-
ry Washington, Chris
Cooper, Bob Costas, Tony
Shalhoub, Nathan Fillion
and Larry the Cable Guy.
Rough Night (R for
crude sexuality, drug
use, coarse humor, brief
bloody images and per-
vasive profanity) Dark
comedy about five BFFs
(Kate McKinnon, Scar-
lett Johansson, Zoe Krav-
itz, Jillian Bell and Ila-
na Glazer) whose wild,
bachelorette party in
Miami is ruined when
they accidentally kill
the male stripper hired
to entertain them. With
cameos by Demi Moore,
Ty Burrell and Bob the
Drag Queen.
INDEPENDENT &
FOREIGN FILMS
The Book of Henry (PG-
13 for mature themes and
brief profanity) Jaeden
Lieberher plays the title
character in this com-
ing-of-age tale as a pre-
cocious 11 year-old who,
with the help of his moth-
er (Naomi Watts), comes
to the assistance of the
abused, next-door neigh-
bor (Maddie Ziegler) he
has a crush on. Featuring
Dean Norris, Jacob Trem-
blay, Sarah Silverman,
Lee Pace, Tonya Pinkins
and Bobby Moynihan.
Hearing Is Believing
(Unrated) Musical biop-
ic about Rachel Flowers,
the blind musical prod-
igy who blossomed into
a popular jazz, soul and
classical artist, sharing
the stage with Keith Em-
erson, Burt Bacharach,
Arturo Sandoval, Dweez-
il Zappa and Jeff “Skunk”
Baxter.
‘All Eyez on Me’
(Dave Johns) who joins
forces with a struggling
single-mom
(Hayley
Squires) to battle Brit-
ain’s welfare and health-
care bureaucracies. Cast
includes Briana Shann,
Sharon Percy and Dylan
McKiernan.
a couple of Irish adver-
saries: Sinn Fein politi-
cian Martin McGuinness
(Colm Meaney) and Dem-
ocratic Unionist Party
leader Ian Paisley (Tim-
othy Spall). Featuring
Freddie Highmore, John
Hurt and Toby Stephens.
I, Daniel Blake (Unrat-
ed) Ken Loach directed
this
unlikely-buddies
drama about an unso-
phisticated
59-year-
old heart attack victim
‘Hearing Is Believing’
The Journey (PG-13
for profanity, mature
themes and violent imag-
es) Political drama about
the historic meeting of
Lost in Paris (Unrated)
The husband-and-wife
team of Dominique Abel
and Fiona Gordon wrote,
directed and co-star in
this burlesque comedy
about a Canadian librar-
ian (Gordon) who finds
herself pursued by a se-
ductive homeless man
(Abel) when she travels to
France to search for her
missing, 88 year-old aunt
(Emmanuelle Riva). With
Pierre Richard, Celine
Laurentie and Charlotte
Dubery. (In French and
English with subtitles)
Maudie (PG-13 for ma-
ture themes and brief
sexuality) Sally Hawkins
portrays Maud Lewis in
this inspirational biopic,
set in Nova Scotia in the
Thirties, chronicling her
overcoming the rheuma-
toid arthritis that had
limited her since child-
hood to become one of
Canada’s most celebrat-
ed folk artists. Support-
ing cast includes Ethan
Hawke, Kari Matchett
and Zachary Bennett.
Moka (Unrated) Adap-
tation of the
Tatiana de Ros-
nay best seller
of the same
name about a
grief-stricken
Swiss mother’s
(Emmanuelle
Devos) quest
to track down
and exact re-
venge on the
French woman
(Nathalie Baye)
who killed her
son
(Paulin
Jaccoud) in a
hit-and-run
accident. With
David Clavel,
Diane Rouxel
and
Olivier
Chantreau. (In
French
with
subtitles)
Once upon a
Time in Ven-
ice (Unrated)
Action come-
dy, set in Los
Angeles, about
a Private Eye
(Bruce Willis)
who will stop
at nothing to
retrieve
his
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