filmland / By Charlie Myers

Crime Wave

Lizbeth Salander returns … and is met by Signore Broody Clooney, assassin!

(Sept. 9, 2010) Previews

RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE. Milla Jovovich is back, along with writer/director Paul W. S. Anderson, for the fourth installment in the franchise based on the relentless video game. This time Alice (Milla) battles Undead while scouring L.A. helping T-virus survivors — all in 3-D. 100m. Rated R for sequences of strong violence and language. Opening at the Broadway, Mill Creek and Fortuna.

The Girl Who Played with Fire

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FLIPPED. A kids romantic comedy written and directed by Rob Reiner based on a he-said/she-said young adult novel by Wendelin Van Draanen. The story concerns young Bryce (Callan McAuliffe) and Juli (Madeline Carroll) and the course of their “relationship” as they make their way from 2nd grade to junior high. 90m. Rated PG for language and some thematic material. Starts Friday at the Minor.

Humboldt Pride weekend kicks off Thursday at the Arcata Theater Lounge with Queer Film Night, a special screening of the comedy But I’m a Cheerleader, starring Natasha Leonne as a teen sent by her parents to a camp where therapists try to cure her presumed lesbian tendencies. (Spoiler alert: The therapy fails.)

On Friday, ATL has a benefit screening of the surf flick Scratching The Surface, with ace surf dude Julian Wilson and friends jetting from one continent to another, catching waves along beautiful beaches. (Does it just seem like all surf movies are variations on The Endless Summer?) Proceeds go to Surfrider Foundation Humboldt Chapter and Arcata Skate Park Phase II.

Meanwhile, on Friday at HSU’s Founders Hall, those who’d like to see some sort of single-payer universal health care in California present Health, Money and Fear,in which Dr. Paul Hochfeld and others get into why medical care costs so much and what can be done about it. (Hint, they like SB 810.) Then, on Saturdayat HSU’s Van Duzer Theatre, catch a sneak preview of the student film produced by HSU film prof Ann Alter: Arcata: From Dawn Till Dusk. (See calendar section for more details.)

Sunday back at the Arcata Theatre Lounge, George Clooney plays escaped con Everett Ulysses McGill (a role quite different from The American) in O Brother, Where Art Thou?, the Coen brothers Depression-era comedy that got everyone excited about old time music.

— Bob Doran

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