As part of its International Film Festival, Spokane Falls Community College is showing the 2007 French film The Grocer's Son at the Magic Lantern tonight. It's the story of a 30-year-old man who has to leave his life in the city to take over his ailing dad's business in the country. 

Here's a taste: 

The movie begins at 7:15 pm at the Garland Theater (924 W. Garland Ave.) and costs a scant $3.50.

Next Tuesday, the festival will present the Peruvian drama Undertow. It will conclude the following week with the 2010 Indian/American film My Name is Khan. All films are shown at the Garland.

FIVE YEAR ENGAGEMENT
Jason Segel just can't get out of Midwest. The How I Met Your Mother Minnesotan character moves to Michigan with his fianceé (Emily Blunt) for a two-year engagement that stretches longer than he expected. Co-written by Segel and director Nicholas Stoller, the plot entertains with Segel's hilarious comedic timing. (AS) Rated R

GOON
In a role he was born for, Sean William Scott plays a local tough guy who gets into a fight in the stands of a semi-pro hockey game and gets invited to join the team as an enforcer. The guy, basically, who gets paid to beat opposing players up. He’s not a misanthrope or a jerk. He’s nice to his girlfriend and is just glad to be on the team. At Magic Lantern (LB) Rated R

NICKY’S FAMILY
On the eve of WWII, Nicholas Winton, orchestrated the release of 669 blacklisted children out of Nazi-controlled Czechoslovakia. This documentary recounts that story, as well as tracing the effect it has had on subsequent generations. At Magic Lantern (LB) Unrated

THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS
The hapless captain of a pirate ship that is horrifically bad at attacking treasure ships (instead running down science vessels, ghost ships, a leper boat, a bunch of nudists). He still has dreams of winning the coveted Pirate of the Year award, though, a feat he will undertake with the help of Charles Darwin. (SR) Rated PG

THE RAVEN
Edgar Allen Poe becomes prime suspect in a series of murders when a mysterious killer copies Poe's fictitious horror stories. A Baltimore detective teams up with Poe to clear his name and solve the case. The stakes raise when Poe's love is targeted. John Cusack, as Poe, rocks the cape, especially in those foggy, Baltimore streets. Directed by V for Vendetta's James McTeague. (AS) Rated R

SAFE
One of the best films Jason Statham has ever made, and certainly the only one where he has seemed to be nearly human, Safe tells the story of a NYPD super cop trying to keep a young girl with a big secret from being snatched up by both Russian mobsters and the Chinese Triad. Action for miles, yeah, but with an emotional core. (MAJ) Rated R

21 JUMP STREET
In the tradition of Starsky and Hutch — taking a self-serious cop show and turning it into a loutish buddy comedy for the big screen — comes 21 Jump Street. What once was a steamy, street-smart hot rod for Johnny Depp and Richard Grieco (remember him?) has become more of an ice cream truck with a flat tire — loud, churlish, calling attention to itself. Basic idea is the same, though, two young-looking cops infiltrate a high school to root out some bad guys. (LB) Rated R

[VIDEO] ALBERT NOBBS
Though an intriguing centerpiece for a story — a woman who must pretend to be a man in order to live independently — Glenn Close’s Nobbs is something of a recluse. When Nobbs meets Hubert (Janet McTeer) — another woman who lives as a man, but with a personal life as well — she begins to see the possibility for something more than a solitary existence. Close’s take on Nobbs feels inauthentic, like a gender-spin impersonation of Anthony Hopkins’ emotionally-repressed manservant in The Remains of the Day. It’s actually McTeer who gives the truly dynamic performance here. Too bad the movie isn’t about her. (SR) Rated PG-13

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[THUMB] KILL LIST
At first glance, Kill List appears to be the story of two British hitmen who stand to come into a bundle of money after assassinating three names on their “kill list.” But after a cache of pornography is discovered in the possession of one of their victims, Jay grows increasingly unhinged, and the film falls down a rabbit hole of tension, violence and paranoia.

Director Ben Wheatley (2009’s excellent Down Terrace) has created a dark and creepy film, that is also very funny at times. Much of the dialogue is improvised by the actors, and the banter helps give the film a naturalistic feel. A disorienting opening scene is followed by a hilariously uncomfortable dinner party. Wheatley constantly contrasts tones and emotions so that no stable quarter can be found.

Without spoiling the ending, let’s just say that the film’s final sequences are so outrageous that they threaten to undermine all the carefully calibrated kitchen-sink realism that has come before. That’s a shame, too, because Kill List is one of the most fascinating genre-bending films to come out of England in a long while. Unrated —Marjorie Baumgarten