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Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun

by Kam Williams

For movies opening July 27, 2007

Big Budget Films

I Know Who Killed Me (R for sexuality, nudity, profanity, gory violence and gruesome images) Grisly psychological thriller starring Lindsay Lohan as a traumatized kidnap victim who manages to escape the clutches of a sadistic serial killer only to end up with amnesia and convinced that she's a stripper, a character she created in a short story for an English assignment.

No Reservations (PG for mild epithets and some sensuality) Catherine Zeta-Jones stars in this romantic comedy about the master chef at a trendy, Greenwich Village bistro whose need for help in raising her adorable orphaned niece (Abigail Breslin) conveniently dovetails with addition to her staff of a handsome sous chef (Aaron Eckhart) who knows how to relate to kids. With Patricia Clarkson, Bob Balaban and Zoe Kravitz (daughter of Lenny and Lisa Bonet).

The Simpsons Movie (PG-13 for crude humor) Screen adaptation of the long-running TV series featuring comedy of errors which ensues after hapless Homer (Dan Castellaneta) loses his job for accidentally causing a radioactive link at the power plant which not only pollutes the river but forces an evacuation the city of Springfield. With voicework by regular cast members Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Kelsey Grammer, Joe Mantegna, Pamela Hayden and Harry Shearer.

Skinwalkers (PG-13 for sexuality, profanity and intense violence) Horror flick follows the efforts of the mother (Rhona Mitra) of an almost 13 year-old boy (Matthew Knight) to protect her half-breed son from the two warring wolf packs coveting the superhuman powers he's about to inherit in fulfillment of an ancient prophecy.

Who's Your Caddy (PG-13 for nudity, profanity, sexuality, crude humor and drug use) Shades of Caddyshack in this ghetto-meets-suburbia comedy about a rap mogul (Big Boi) who creates havoc on the golf course of an exclusive, Atlanta country club with the help of his lowbrow entourage. Cast includes Jeffrey Jones, James Avery, Terry Crews, Faizon Love, Finesse Mitchell, Bruce Bruce, Tony Cox, Tamala Jones, Garrett Morris and Jenifer Lewis.

Independent & Foreign Films

The Camden 28 (Unrated) Vietnam War-era documentary revisits the legal trial of 28 conscientious objectors, including four Catholic priests and a protestant minister, arrested for breaking into a draft board office in the middle of the night to shred documents in protest of what they considered to be an immoral conflict.

The Devil Came on Horseback (Unrated) Ethnic cleansing in the Sudan is the subject of this documentary chronicling the Jangaweed's bloody reign of terror as captured on a handheld camera by Brian Steidle, an American Marine Captain.

Naming Number Two (PG for smoking, sensuality, mature themes, mild epithets, and brief violence) Set in the Fiji islands, this intergenerational drama stars Ruby Dee as an aging, widowed matriarch who has summoned her dispersed relatives together for a family reunion and a traditional feast during which she plans to pick her successor.

No End in Sight (Unrated) Damning documentary examines the ineptitude on the part of the Bush Administration in conducting the War in Iraq.

Smiley Face (R for profanity, sexuality and drug use) Anna Faris stars in this stoner comedy as an aspiring actress who embarks on a series of misadventures after unknowingly eating her roommate's marijuana-laced brownies.

The Sugar Curtain (Unrated) Cuban émigré Camila Guzman Urzua returns to her homeland to document and lament the loss of idealism in the wake of the Castro-led revolution's dashed dream of establishing an enduring utopian society. (In Spanish with subtitles)

This Is England (Unrated) Shane Meadow wrote and directed this semi-autobiographical coming-of-age tale, set in the Eighties, about a grief-stricken, 11 year-old boy (Thomas Turgoose) who is befriended by a gang of racist skinheads after his father dies while fighting in the Falklands War.

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