filmland / By Charlie Myers

One Real Woman

Tattoo’s Lisbeth Salander is everything SatC’s vapid, cartoonish foursome is not

(June 3, 2010) Previews

Coming this weekend: Get Him to the Greek, a sequel/spin-off of Forgetting Sarah Marshall from writer/director Nicholas Stoller and producer Judd Apatow, with Russell Brand returning as narcissistic, hedonist Brit rock star Aldous Snow. Jonah Hill plays an idealistic record company intern assigned to get him from London to L.A.’s Greek Theater for a concert. Rated R for strong sexual content and drug use throughout and pervasive language. At the Broadway and Mill Creek.

Killers is an action-packed romance-comedy from Aussie director Robert Luketic (Monster In Law, Legally Blonde). When Jennifer (Katherine Heigl, Knocked Up) meets Spencer (Ashton Kutcher, That ’70s Show, Demi’s husband) she doesn’t know he’s a CIA-trained assassin. Now that killers are shooting at them, she’s wondering what else she doesn’t know. Rated PG-13 for violent action, sexual material and language. At the Broadway, the Minor, Fortuna and Mill Creek.

Marmaduke is a family-friendly comedy based on Brad Anderson’s comic strip about a Great Dane (voiced by Owen Wilson) and the family he lives with. A move from Kansas to Orange County means adapting to the Cali lifestyle. Rated PG for some rude humor and mild language. At the Broadway, Fortuna and Mill Creek.

When you consider the recent scientific “Wow, they did it!” where U.S. scientists created the first “synthetic life,” perhaps the movie-going public’s appetite is whetted for a genetic thriller. Can the makers of Splice cash in? The film stars Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley as researchers who mix the DNA of various species to form hybrid beings. Guess what? Something goes wrong. Rated R for sci-fi violence and sexuality. 104m. At the Broadway and Mill Creek.

Considering the amount of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, June’s Ocean Night, Thursday, June 3, at the Arcata Theatre Lounge, seems extremely timely. Black Wave: The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez looks at the aftermath of what was, until recently, the worst environmental disaster in North American history. Riki Ott and the fishermen of Cordova, Alaska battled corporate giant ExxonMobil in court, winning a $5 billion class action lawsuit, only to see the Supreme Court trim the award by 90 percent. Second feature that night is the much lighter Sipping Jetstreams, a surf flick/travelogue from Taylor Steele in the tradition of Endless Summer.

That same night, the Morris Graves Museum and KEET-TV’s First Thursday Film Night presents Helvetica, director Gary Hustwit’s documentary examination of the ubiquitous sans-serif font and the place it holds in modern typography and graphic design.

— Bob Doran

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