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Page 6 The Skanner August 9, 2017 Arts & Entertainment Kam’s Kapsules: Movies Opening Friday, August 11, 2017 BIG BUDGET FILMS Annabelle: Creation (R for horror violence) Tale of demonic possession about a dollmaker (An- thony LaPaglia) and his wife (Miranda Otto) who open their home to a nun (Stephanie Sigman) and several orphans only to have them terrorized by one of his creations (Sa- mara Lee). With Talitha Bateman, Lulu Wilson and Kerry O’Malley. The Glass Castle (PG-13 for profanity, smoking and mature themes) Brie Kam Williams Kam’s Kapsules Movie Reviews Harrelson). Cast includes Sarah Snook, Josh Caras and Max Greenfield. The Nut Job 3: Nutty by Nature (PG for ac- tion and rude humor) Animated sequel finds Surly the squirrel (Will Arnett) and his sidekick ‘The Nut Job 3: Nutty by Nature’ Larson stars in this adap- tation of Jeanette Walls’ best-selling memoir of the same name recount- ing being raised in a dysfunctional family by an artist (Naomi Watts) and an alcoholic (Woody Buddy (Tom Kenny) join- ing forces with other ani- mals in order to prevent their crooked mayor (Bobby Moynihan) from paving the park to put up an amusement park. Voice cast includes Maya Rudolph, Jackie Chan, Katherine Heigl and Jeff Dunham. INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Good Time (R for vi- olence, drug use, sex- uality and pervasive profanity) NYC crime drama revolving around a mobster’s (Robert Par- kinson) efforts to spring his brother (Ben Safdie) from jail after a botched bank robbery. With Bud- dy Duress, Barkhad (I’m the Captain, now!”) Abdi and Jennifer Jason Leigh. In This Corner of the World (PG-13 for mature themes and images of war) Animated histor- ical drama, set in Japan during World War II, revolving around the survivor’s guilt of an 18 year-old girl (Non) who married and moved away from Hiroshima be- fore the atom bomb was dropped on her home- town. Voice cast includes Megumi Han, Natsuki In- aba and Nanase Iwai. (In Japanese with subtitles) Ingrid Goes West (R for sexuality, disturbing behavior, drug use and pervasive behavior) Au- The Black Lives Matters documentary ‘Whose Streets?’ looks at Ferguson, Mo. in the wake of the police shooting of 18 year-old Mike Brown. brey Plaza handles the title role in this character study of a stalker who relocates from Pennsyl- vania to L.A. after be- coming obsessed with an Instagram celebrity (Elizabeth Olsen). Fea- turing O’Shea Jackson, Jr., Wyatt Russell and Bil- ly Magnussen. The Only Living Boy in New York (R for pro- fanity and drug use) Dys- functional family drama about the love triangle which develops after a recent college grad (Cal- lum Turner) discovers that his father’s (Pierce Brosnan) cheating on his mother (Cynthia Nixon) with a younger woman (Kate Beckinsale). With Jeff Bridges, Kiersey Clemons Shawn. and Wallace Planetarium (Unrated) Supernatural fantasy about a couple of psychic sisters (Natalie Portman and Lily-Rose Depp) who are hired by a film studio executive (Emmanuel Sa- linger) to star in a movie about spiritualism. Sup- port cast includes Lou- is Garrel, Amira Casar and Pierre Salvadori. (In English and french with subtitles) A Taxi Driver (Unrat- ed) Fact-based drama, set in South Korea in 1980, recounting how a cabbie (Kang-ho Song) helped a German reporter (Thom- as Kretschmann) cover- ing an insurrection in the city of Gwangju. With Hae-jin Yoo, Jun-yeol Ryu and Daniel Joey Albright. (In Korean with subti- tles) The Trip to Spain (Un- rated) Third installment in the culinary series finds comedians Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon cracking jokes while traveling around Spain and sampling the local cuisine over the course of five days. Whose Streets? (R for pervasive profani- ty) Black Lives Matter documentary taking an unvarnished look at Fer- guson, Missouri in the wake of the police shoot- ing of 18 year-old Mike Brown. Gwendolyn Brooks Won the Pulitzer Prize while Living in a Housing Project G SHOWTIMES THE BEGUILED (R) Fri-Thur: 2:25, 7:05 CARS 3 (G) Fri-Thur: 11:55, 2:15, 4:40 BEATRIZ AT DINNER (R) Fri-Thur: 12:05, 7:25 IT COMES AT NIGHT (R) Fri-Thur: 9:40 The Week of Friday, Aug. 11 through Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2 (PG-13) Fri-Thur: 11:40, 4:30, 6:50 THE LOST CITY OF Z (PG-13) Fri-Thur: 2:00, 9:20 SPACE JAM (PG) Fri-Thur: 4:50, 9:10 $4.00 adults, $3.00 senior citizens (65+), $3.00 for kids (12 & under) 7818 SE Stark St, Portland, OR 97215 503-252-1707 • AcademyTheaterPdx.com Babysitting: Children 2 to 8 years old. Fri: shows starting between 3:30 pm and 8 pm. Sat - Sun: shows starting between 1 pm and 8 pm. $9.50 per child for the length of the movie. Call to reserve a spot, no drop ins. wendolyn Brooks’ apartment was dark on May 1, 1950. The bril- liant, award-winning Black poet, who wrote about life on Chicago’s South Side, had not paid her electric bill. With no electrical power, little money and a nine-year old son to feed Brooks made headlines around the world while living in a housing project. A reporter called Brooks and told her that she had won a Pulitzer award, one of the most prestigious prizes in liter- ature. At 32 years-old, Brooks crashed the White-dominated literary world as the first Black woman to win the award. When Brooks won the Pulitzer Prize with her publisher Harper Row in 1950, she received $500, which is equivalent to about $5,000 today, when adjusted for inflation. Today, the Pulitzer comes with a $15,000 cash award. The achievement was important for Brooks’ career, but how she lived was not completely different than other working-class Black women in the 1950s. Up until the day she won the Pulit- zer, Brooks and her husband, H e n r y Blakely, ex- perienced rampant racism in C h i c a g o’ s schools, but espe- cially in the city’s housing Pulitzer Prize-winning poet i n d u s t r y. Gwendolyn Brooks B l a c k s lived piled up in slums, because of segregation and restrictive covenants that kept Blacks out of White neighbor- hoods. As was true for many Blacks, finan- cial woes, racism and a critical housing shortage for people of color led one of America’s greatest literary figures to live in a housing project, one that was once opposed by thousands of White residents at the height of Jim Crow pe- riod. As the 100th anniversary celebra- tions of Brooks’ birthday continue, FILE PHOTO/CHICAGO CRUSADER By Erick Johnson Chicago Crusader/NNPA Member See BROOKS on page 7
