Two Lovers: Love It!

But Haunting and Monsters fail to rise above their respective genre schlock

(April 2, 2009) Note to Readers: I will be on hiatus for six weeks while I’m in Portland. See you mid-May if I’m renewed.

Previews

Opening Friday, April 3, is Fast & Furious, 2009 version and the fourth in the series but set between Nos. 2 & 3. The film features four actors from the original: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster. Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, some sexual content, language and drug references. 107m. At the Broadway, Mill Creek, Fortuna and Minor.

A comedy set in summer 1987, Adventureland features Jesse Eisenberg as a college grad who takes the only job for which he is qualified at an amusement park. Rated R for language, drug use and sexual references. 107m. At the Broadway.

After years of blood, sweat and tears, the Arcata Theatre Lounge opens the weekend of April 3. I wish the theatre great success. In addition to a lot of music, director/writer Michael Kang’s 2005 feature debut The Motel about a 13-year-old living at his family’s hourly-rate motel plays April 4 at 8 p.m. and April 5 at 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. The film won an award at Sundance. NR, 76m.

Playing midnight April 4 is Six-String Samurai, a 1998 alternate history action/comedy martial arts film that also scored at Sundance. Filmed largely in Death Valley. PG-13 but billed by the theatre for 21 and over, 81m.

Reviews

THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT: There have been countless claims over the years of places, usually at old houses, which are hotbeds of paranormal activity. Luckily for filmmakers, paranormal investigators and fiction writers, the ghostly presences are usually evil; there aren’t many thrills in a story about nice spirits.

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