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(June 24, 2010) Previews

Call Grown Ups a reunion comedy. Producer/co-writer Adam Sandler reunited his buddies from Saturday Night Live class of 1990 — Chris Rock, David Spade and Rob Schneider — along with Kevin James (King of Queens) for the story of five guys who played on a championship basketball team in junior high gathering at a summer camp three decades later with wives and kids. Rated PG-13 for profanity, male rear nudity, crude humor and suggestive material. Starts Friday at the Broadway, Fortuna, the Minor and Mill Creek.

The fast-paced action comedy Knight and Day stars Tom Cruise as some sort of international super-spy and Cameron Diaz as a girl he meets in an airport seemingly accidentally. He shoots a bunch of baddies as he drags her along on his mission to save the world. Rated PG-13 for violence and brief profanity. Opening at the Broadway, the Fortuna and Mill Creek.

Opening Friday, City Island, an indie comedy written and directed by Raymond De Felitta with Andy Garcia as a corrections officer and would-be actor and Julianna Margulies (ER) as his tough wife. They live, play and argue in City Island, a fishing village in the Bronx. Rated PG-13 for sexual content, smoking and language. At the Minor.

Twilight Saga: Eclipse, the latest in the teen vamp franchise, has young Bella (Kristen Stewart) about to graduate from high school and wondering if she should roll with the cute vampire (Robert Pattinson) or the buff werewolf (Taylor Lautner). Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of action and violence, and some sensuality. Opens everywhere Wednesday, June 30. Serious fans will catch the Tuesday midnight premiere; the Broadway has a sequential Twilight triple bill that night, preceding the opening with Twilight and Twilight Saga: New Moon.

Thursday, June 24, the Epic Bicycle Film Tour rolls into town. Portland filmmakers Mary DeFreese and Nick Peterson shot Field Guide to November Days, their indie film about 20-something bicyclists, with a crew on bikes. Their West Coast Vancouver to L.A. road trip with the film is also by bicycle. Ride your bike to the screening at the Accident Gallery.

Arcata Theatre Lounge keeps ’em coming: Thursday it’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, director Terry Gilliam’s version of gonzo journalist Hunter Thompson’s drug-fueled autobiographical novel with Johnny Depp as Thompson alter ego Raoul Duke and Benicio Del Toro as his attorney, Dr. Gonzo. Friday ATL has The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, an Aussie comedy/drama/musical with Terence Stamp as a transsexual leading a cross-dressing road show through the outback in a lavender bus called Priscilla. Sunday it’s Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, part two of J.K. Rowling’s boy wizard franchise. Next Wednesday, more Japanese monsters/superheroes (Gamera and Star-Man) for another Sci-Fi Pint and Pizza Night.

— Bob Doran

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