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OPENING THIS WEEK:

BEAUTY IN TROUBLE—After the Prague floods of 2002 destroy her home, a woman leaves her husband to try and find a way to care for her two children. Starring Ana Geislerová, Roman Luknár, Jana Brejchová, and Jirí Schmitzer. Directed by Jan Hrebejk (Divided We Fall). Reviewed this issue. Amherst

STEP BROTHERS—Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly as 40-year-olds who discover sibling rivalry when their single parents (Mary Steenburgen and Richard Jenkins) get married. Co-starring Adam Scott and Kathryn Hahn. Directed by Adam McKay (Anchorman). Reviewed this issue. Flix. Maple Ridge. Market Arcade. McKinley. Regal Hollywood. Regal Walden. Transit Drive In

THE X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE—The plot is being kept secret, but how it can matter—either the cult TV hit of the 1990s still has an audience or it doesn’t. Still, Chris Carter is just asking for snarky reviews with that title. Starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, of course, with Billy Connolly, Amanda Peet and Xzibit. Reviewed this issue. Maple Ridge. Flix. Market Arcade. Regal Hollywood. Regal Quaker. Regal Walden. Transit Drive In

ETC:

BRIDE OF THE MONSTER (1956)—How can you not love a movie with lines like “He tampered in God’s domain!”? To call it Ed Wood’s best movie may not be saying much, but he gives Bela Lugosi a few enjoyably hammy speeches, maybe to make up for the climactic scene in which he has to wrestle a fake rubber octopus with a broken motor. Fri 7:30 pm. The Screening Room, Northtown Plaza Business Center, 3131 Sheridan Drive, Amherst (837-0376) www.screeningroom.net

GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS (1939)—Robert Donat won the Academy Award as Best Actor for his performance in this adaptation of James Hilton’s novel about an aged schoolteacher looking back on his career in an English boarding school. With Greer Garson, Terry Kilburn, John Mills and Paul Henreid. Directed by Sam Wood (For Whom the Bell Tolls). Thurs July 31, 7:30 pm. Riviera Theater, 67 Webster St., North Tonawanda (692-2413)

THE LITTLE PRINCESS (1939)—Frances Hodgson Burnett’s perennial story retooled as a vehicle for Shirley Temple as a girl left at a boarding school while her father goes off to fight the Boer War. Co-starring Richard Greene, Anita Louise, Cesar Romero, Ian Hunter (no, not the same one) and Arthur Treacher (yes, the same one). Directed by Walter Lang (Cheaper by the Dozen). Thurs July 24, 7:30 pm. Riviera Theater, 67 Webster St., North Tonawanda (692-2413)

LONG WAY DOWN—Documentary about a 15,000 mile motorcycle trip taken by actors Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman from Scotland to South Africa, Presented in high definition digital. Thurs July 31, 7:30pm. Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit

OUTDOOR ANIMATION FESTIVAL—Squeaky Wheel presents its fifth annual evening of family-friendly animated films from around the world. The program also includes Joshua Jackson’s documentary “Anybody Home,” about Buffalo’s East Side. Sat, 8:30pm, Days Park (Cottage & Allen Streets)

PERFORMING THE BORER—A program of video essays by media artist Ursula Biemann, whose work concerns issues of migration, mobility, technology and gender. Fri 8 pm. Hallwalls, 341 Delaware Ave. (854-1694) www.hallwalls.org

VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA (1961)—What can you say about a sci-fi movie whose hero is a renegade admiral determined to launch an atomic missile from a submarine into the atmosphere in order to save the earth? I say, thank god we’ve learned something from science in the last fifty years. With the kind of cast you don’t get every day: Walter Pidgeon, Joan Fontaine, Barbara Eden, Peter Lorre, Frankie Avalon and Howard (Floyd the Barber) McNear. An early hit from disaster specialist Irwin Allen (The Towering Inferno). Fri 9pm. The Screening Room, Northtown Plaza Business Center, 3131 Sheridan Drive, Amherst (837-0376) www.screeningroom.net


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