OPENING
THIS WEEK
Kam's
Kapsules:
Weekly
Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun
by Kam
Williams
For
movies opening January 4, 2013
BIG
BUDGET FILMS
Texas Chainsaw 3-D (R for grisly violence and
pervasive profanity) 7th installment of the enduring horror
franchise finds an unsuspecting heiress (Alexandra Daddario) travelling to a
tiny Texas town to take possession of the mansion she has just inherited only
to discover a bloodthirsty madman (Dan Yeager) lurking in the shadows. With
Trey Songz, Tania Raymonde and Scott Eastwood (Clint’s son).
INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS
56 Up (Unrated) 8th episode of
director Michael Apted’s periodic documentary interviewing the same set of
Brits every 7 years since they were 7 years of age.
All Superheroes Must Die (Unrated) Action
thriller about four superheroes (Lucas Till, Jason Trost, Sophie Merkley and
Lee Valmassy) who are abducted by their archenemy (James Remar) and stripped of
their powers before being forced to fight to save a town of innocent civilians.
Support cast includes Nick Principe, Sean Whalen and Brian Taylor.
A Bottle in the Gaza Sea (Unrated) Unlikely romance
drama about the love which blossoms between a 17 year-old Jew (Agathe Bonitzer)
and the 20 year-old Palestinian (Mahmoud Shalaby) who finds her message in a
bottle seeking to make sense of a terrorist bombing in Jerusalem. With Hiam
Abbass, Riff Cohen and Abraham Belaga. (In Hebrew, Arabic and French with
subtitles)
A Dark Truth (R for violence and disturbing
images) International thriller about a retired CIA Agent-turned-political talk
show host (Andy Garcia) who is enlisted by a corporate whistleblower (Deborah
Kara Unger) to help expose her company’s cover-up of a massacre in an Ecuadoran
village. With Eva Longoria, Forest Whitaker and Kim Coates.
My Brooklyn
(Unrated) Kelly Anderson directed this class-conscious documentary chronicling
the racial tensions which surfaced in her neighborhood as a consequence of
gentrification.
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