This week brings a new summertime hair-raiser from M. Night Shyamalan, a biopic of a controversial Czechoslovakian herbalist, an explosion-y Henry Golding vehicle, and more. See our picks below, and check out our on-demand calendar for even more options.
New This Week – In Theaters
Aliens
As you might guess from the plurality of the title, the second film in the Alien series (directed by James Cameron on the heels of his Terminator debut) deals with multiple extra-terrestrial life forms, which pose a threat to the sole human survivor of Sigourney Weaver’s long-lost space shuttle. If you ask The Stranger‘s Charles Mudede, the film is also a critique of capitalism. “The [first film] concerns the old struggle between capital and labor; the [second film] concerns the ruthlessness of corporate power and an industrial military complex that serves not the public but corporate interests,” he writes.
Grand Cinema – Tacoma
Friday-Saturday
