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Your Weekly Roundup of New Movies: “RK/RKAY” Is a Wonderful Meditation on What Happens When a Director Is Drawn Too Deeply Into His Art What to see and skip while streaming or going to the theater. (RK-RKAY Outsider Pictures)
RK/RKAY Mahboob is a fictional character, but that doesn’t stop him from making real-life mayhem in this cheeky comedy from Indian filmmaker Rajat Kapoor. Kapoor stars as RK, a somber visionary who directs himself in a film about Mahboob, a mustachioed romantic who is murdered in a forest. Rather than face his morbid fate, Mahboob hails a taxi that inexplicably transports him out of the film and into RK’s life, where he pleads for his creator to spare him.
STAR WARS DAY AT THE MICHIGAN THEATER – the 1st Star Wars movie, to 250 (the Michigan Theater seats over 1,600) and it was great! People had a wonderful time and it was great to feel the Michigan Theater safely populated by all times of movie fans – all races, all ages enjoying a classic film!
OPENING DOWNTOWN Limbo OPENS FRIDAY, MAY 7 AT THE STATE
Omar is a promising young musician. Separated from his Syrian family, he is stuck on a remote Scottish island awaiting the fate of his asylum request. Ben Sharrock’s second feature is a funny and poignant cross-cultural satire that subtly sews together the hardship and hope of the refugee experience.
Grade: B+
Ingmar Bergmanâs dark introspective dramas were often set on the island of Faro, off the southeastern coast of Sweden where the Baltic Sea pounded the coastline. Faro was cut off from the world, an isolation that mirrored Bergmanâs wounded souls.
Bergmanâs depressing journeys were such sweet sorrow as Liv and Max internalized Bergmanâs angst.
I thought of those bleak portraits as I watched âLimbo,â a story of Syrian immigrants stranded on a Scottish island awaiting asylum.
This is an island where Ingmar would have loved to vacation: cloudy, bleak, waves beating the shore.
Itâs the kind of setting that might produce storms like ones that Irish poet Seamus Heaney described as âblasts that can raise a tragic chorus in a gale.â
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The Paper Tigers (PG-13) This martial-arts comedy is about three middle-aged former kung fu prodigies (Alain Uy, Ron Yuan, and Mykel Shannon Jenkins) who are forced to revive their talents to solve the murder of their master. Also with Yuji Okumoto, Jae Suh Park, Roger Yuan, Peter Adrian Sudarso, Yoshi Sudarso, and Matthew Page. (Opens Friday in Dallas)
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OPENING
Above Suspicion (R) This thriller based on the first American conviction for the murder of a federal agent stars Jack Huston as an FBI man who has an illicit affair with his informant (Emilia Clarke). Also with Sophie Lowe, Austin Hébert, Thora Birch, Omar Benson Miller, and Johnny Knoxville. (Opens Friday in Dallas)
UpdatedWed, May 5, 2021 at 11:00 am CT
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Limbo, Omar (Amir El-Masry) is an oud player (it s a stringed instrument; look it up) born in Syria and currently living on a remote Scottish island where he waits patiently to find out whether the British government will grant him asylum. He hasn t played the instrument since leaving Syria, although by all accounts he is quite a gifted player. This is made all the more strange since he carries the oud with him everywhere he goes, as if he s ready to play it at a moment s notice.
Writer/director Ben Sharrock (