RECOMMENDED: We’ve not yet seen Mark Webber‘s Explicit Ills, but suffice to say, our curiosity has been piqued: It’s shot and set in Philadelphia, boasts a cast that includes Rosario Dawson, Black Thought aka Tariq Trotter from the Roots( and, we’re pretty sure, Dookie from The Wire), and uses as its plotlines the social justice issues that made Webber’s mom (Sherri Honkala) famous long before he was. Already the calls of “preachy!” are going up around the movie, but with this much local color to pull us in, let’s reserve judgement for later. Tonight at Ritz At The Bourse, cast members Lou Taylor Pucci and Trotter, along with producer Sol Tryon speak after the 7:25 screening and before the 9:55 one. Buy tickets here.

ALSO NEW IN THEATERS THIS WEEK: Miss March, in which one of the dudes from Whitest Kids You Know goes into a coma just before he’s about to seal the deal with a girl who then becomes a Playboy centerfold, making this the closest we’ve ever seen to a live action version of the J. Geils Band 1980s classic, “Centerfold”; Race To Witch Mountain, starring The Rock as a cabbie who winds up squiring kids-disguised-as-aliens and, gross, it’s a Disney movie; Last House On The Left, which is a remake of the 70s bloody-titsploitation classic Last House On The Left; and Crossing Over, starring Harrison Ford and Ray Liotta as immigration agents, which we guarantee your parents will ask you if you saw in six months.

This entry was posted on Friday, March 13th, 2009 at 1:56 pm.