Although we don't have a Weekend To-Do List this week, Up To Date's indie, foreign and documentary film critics have a few new recommendations that might leave you bewildered.
Cynthia Haines
NUTS!, not rated
- Dr. John Romulus Brinkley was an eccentric/flimflam man who made a fortune "curing" impotence with goat gonads. Need we say more?
Tickled, R
- A documentary about an online fetish competition that centers around tickling. The film resulted in lawsuits and threats to the director.
Love & Friendship, PG
- Kate Beckinsale plays Jane Austen’s Lady Susan, a young English widow who uses rich men as a vehicle for her climb toward wealth and status.
Steve Walker
Tickled, R
- Engrossing and increasingly bizarre documentary follows an investigative journalist's hunt for the powers-that-be behind a subculture of tickling fetishists.
Love & Friendship, PG
- A wry comedy of manners based on Jane Austen's novella Lady Susan, featuring a delicious Kate Beckinsale as a diabolical snob.
The Lobster, R
- Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz in a dark, absurdist tale about a near future where single people must partner up lest they be turned into animals.