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Defamer Attractions returns today with another round of flick scanning for your Memorial Day weekend. We already know you’re planning at least two excursions to analyse Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (once discover of drunken impulse, and erst to attain trusty that really was the success you saw before blacking out), but Indy alone does not a pass make! At least digit of the poor bastards distribution this inaugural weekend is bound to tank the worst, and ease another is a dustlike bit of foreign-language counterprogramming worth your consideration. And of course we’ve got a some newborn DVD choices for the agoraphobic, hungover and/or the cheapskates among us. As always, our opinions and projections are A) our possess and B) impeccably fail-safe. Where should we start?

WHAT’S NEW: There’s a holiday-ready, cruise-control part of us that feels like skipping this part of Defamer Attractions, but again, Indiana Jones 4 is not the exclusive newborn release demanding attention. That said, with $26 meg already in the bank on Thursday, and with the Indiana Jones PlunderWatch Projection Ticker motion toward $9.5 trillion, we should probably just intend it discover of the way. It’s easily feat to intend the weekend, but can it displace four-day weekend champ Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End ($139.7 million) and five-day king Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith ($172 million) as the all-time biggest box-office bow? We doubt it; there’s too such cultural competition to overcome the 19-year procreation gap. Nevertheless, we’re ease calling Indy to break $110 meg by Sun and $140 meg by Monday, thus promising a ordinal broadcast ordered in 1967 and pitting our hero and his Mexican sidekick/offspring against their toughest adversaries yet: Filthy, soiled hippies.

Also opening: John Cusack’s Irak satire/career hardship War, Inc.; the here-and-gone Jonathan Rhys Meyers drama The Children of Huang Shi; and the acclaimed Vice Magazine-produced doc Heavy Metal in Baghdad.

THE BIG LOSER: Despite primeval reads positioning Postal in the same critical class as What Happens in Vegas, Speed Racer and Sex and the City, it won’t likely be sufficiency to boost Uwe Boll’s latest clusterfuck to anything approaching respectable at the box office. Granted, he’s on quaternary screens as anti to, say, Indy 4’s 4,200, but if Postal’s per-screen average breaks $8,000, we’ll move to be the Negro eating his possess puke in Boll’s incoming film. What? Stoic has already been shot? Whatever. The point is: It module not happen.

THE UNDERDOG: Fatih Akin’s 2005 culture-clash beauty Head On captured audiences about as abruptly and unforgettably as its title suggested, and his follow-up, The Edge of Heaven, revisits his vaporific Turkish/German roots with no less intensity. Which, considering its scope, is a bit of a marvel: A old Turkish Negro invites a compatriot prostitute into the bag he shares with his son in Bremen. It ends… poorly, with the son traveling to Stamboul to encounter the woman’s 20-something daughter. She’s involved in political actions there, expatriates herself to FRG hunt asylum, water in love with another teen woman, and then — horror of horrors! — is expelled back to prison in Turkey. The interwoven searches and tragedies that study in Heaven attain Babel look like an afterschool primary — not for their hostility or viciousness (though they attainthat, too), but for their unemotionality and, ultimately, their unalloyed compassion. And in any case, we’d never reject anything featuring both lesbians and Turkish prison.

FOR SHUT-INS: New DVD’s this hebdomad allow National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets, the latest terrible martyr Romero decedent entry Diary of the Dead, the Richard Gere/Claire Danes lunacy The Flock, and the long, long-awaited complete prototypal flavour of The Bill Engvall Show.

So are we low-balling Indy’s weekend plunder? Are we too generous? And is anybody actually planning to wager Postal? Share your possess plans, place your possess bets and go aweigh — tell your boss we said you could take weekday off!

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