FROM MONKEY TO MAN

NOW IN THEATERS...

* Boyhood, Richard Linklater's phenomenal chronicle of one boy growing up, filmed over the course of twelve years.

* Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, a sequel that bests the original. All-ape action!

* Slaughter Nick for President, in which an early '90s TV star discovers he's a folk hero in Serbia. The Searching for Sugarman of schlock TV.

Also, in revival at the Laurelhurst Theater & Pub this week, Mel Brooks' Hitchcock parody High Anxiety. It hasn't aged well, alas.

WATCH IT AT HOME...

* Caught, a moody melodrama from the master Max Ophüls. 

* Kissing Jessica Stein, a well-meaning throwback to the early '00s.

* The Lost Moment, a bizarre love triangle of sorts, based on a Henry James story, with a marvelous performance from Susan Hayward. A good double-bill with the Ophüls film.

Current Soundtrack: Damon Albarn, live on French TV