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OPENING American Underdog (PG) This has much better acting than your typical Christian football film, and better production values, with real NFL teams lending their stadiums and logos. These things make a difference, just not enough of one. Zachary Levi portrays Kurt Warner, an undrafted quarterback out of
No. 1 for the year is ‘Belfast,’ Kenneth Branagh’s black-and-white love letter to his childhood in the Northern Ireland of the late 1960s.
In the opening scene of Guillermo del Toro's new film "Nightmare Alley" we watch a man dragging a dead body, tightly wrapped in a bed sheet, across the dusty floor of a remote ramshackle farm house. He strikes a match and sets the place ablaze. The man makes his way to a bus station where, once onboard, he lowers his floppy brimmed fedora over his tired heavy eyes and falls asleep, only waking up when the bus reaches the proverbial "end of the line."
The versatile supporting actor found himself "excited by the challenge but feared I wasn't gonna be able to pull it off," after reading the script.
OPENING American Sicario (R) This gangster film stars Philippe A. Haddad as a Mexican gangster whose rise to power makes enemies both outside and within his crime family. Also with Danny Trejo, Maya Stojan, Maurice Compte, Johnny Rey Diaz, Jaylen Moore, Margo Quinn, and Dionysio Basco. (Opens Friday in Dallas)