Movies This Week: Waiting for a Dark Red Jackass

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Here are the new films opening in Austin this week. We've got an action film, some interesting docs, a couple of Bollywood films ... and the indescribable third film in the Jackass series. What sounds good to you?

Jackass 3D -- Steve-O, Johnny Knoxville and company are at it again, in high-definition 3D. I admit I laughed at parts in the 10 minutes or so they showed at Fantastic Fest, but if you have a low gag threshold, there's a lot of flying feces in it. Mike Saulters can tell you more about it in his review. (wide)

Red -- I missed this movie at Fantastic Fest, and despite all the talkers at the preview screening I went to, it was well worth it. So worth it, I stayed just to make sure there wasn't a stinger after the credits (there wasn't). Retired (and extremely dangerous) spies get the old gang back together again to figure out who is trying to kill them. Read my review for more. (wide)

Waiting for "Superman" -- Documentarian Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth, It Might Get Loud) is back to stir up your internal activist, this time over education, turning statistics into real stories of real children. Jette interrupts: I can't recommend this film enough. It's a compelling look at the broken American public education system, focusing on the point of view of the kids, who made me want to whip out my checkbook and start them a college fund. Do read my interview with Guggenheim at Cinematical; I think it's one of the best interviews I've ever done, and I may go find the "outtakes" and post them here this weekend. (Arbor)

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger -- Woody Allen's latest follows a struggling couple and their surrounding family as their angst and ambitions get the best of them. But does Allen make the best movie for us? Read Jette's review for more. (Arbor)

Aakrosh -- Bollywood murder/revenge thriller. (Cinemark Tinseltown 17)

Brindavanam -- Bollywood romance. (Cinemark Tinseltown 17)

I Want Your Money -- A "documentary" that uses caricatures to compare federal policies under Reagan, Obama, and Clinton.  When you see credits that include lots of people as themselves and three people as presidents, it's not clear what to make of it, but it's not playing the usual arthouse venues for small films deserving an audience. (Metropolitan) 

Khaleja  -- I think it's Bollywood, but it's not in Hindi, it's in Telugu, without subtitles, and IMDb doesn't show a plot for it, soooo... that's playing, and for 160 minutes. (Cinemark Tinseltown 17) 

N-Secure -- Apparently this is a "no-holds-barred thrilling drama mixed with murder, mayhem and manipulation among affluent professionals" but the bar was indeed held on recognizable cast names, save a Cosby Kid (Tempestt Bledsoe). (Cinemark Tinseltown 17, Gateway) 

Check out our personal picks below. Don't forget you can always alert us to special screenings, new film series, etc.

Debbie -- Very sorry to be missing the Cinema Touching Disability Film Festival this weekend, and hope some of you will check it out. The remaining films are at Alamo Drafthouse on South Lamar and are worth a look.

Jenn -- Besides Austin Film Festival?  I'm going to try to get to the first screening of Cine Las Americas' Santo Superestrella at the Mexican American Cultural Center. Besides being free, this series (which runs through November 15) sounds like a lot of fun, as it features Santo in the Wax Museum (Santo en el museo de cera), as the famed masked wrestler-superhero takes on the sinister Dr. Karol. 

Jette -- The Evil Dead Trilogy Feast on Sunday at Alamo Drafthouse Ritz is still not sold out! And I hear Alamo will be giving away a few copies of the out-of-print Blu-ray of Evil Dead. Boy, am I tempted ...