What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend. Avenue Montaigne - A beautiful young woman comes to Paris and ends up working as a waitress at a fashionable cafe on the titular street, which is the "city’s nexus for art, music, theater, and fashion." So her customers are all famous, rich, or trying to be famous or rich. But she's not really aware of this, and her honesty and naivety changes them, and in......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Park Chan-wook (Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy) has a new movie, and it's sort of a comedy! We say "sort of" because there appears to be lots of violence and insanity involved. It's called I'm a Cyborg, But That's Okay, and Cinematical's review sounds pretty promising. Hopefully this one will show up at this year's Philadelphia Film Festival... Speaking of Cinematical,......

Okay. Movie snob here. Seriously. Give me subtitles. Give me handheld cameras. Give me just about anything playing at one of the Ritz theatres. But once in a while? Give me a cartoon. About animals. Something where the characters are so cute that you want to jump through the movie screen into the film, and cuddle with them. That’s what Happy Feet is. One hour and forty-five minutes of adorableness. Singing, dancing penguins. Fluffy......

What's new and/or interesing in Philly theaters this weekend. Fast Food Nation - We wouldn't have figured in a million years that someone would think to adapt an expose of the fast food industry into a fictional drama, but that is exactly what's happened here. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the writer/director of this odd film is oddball Richard Linklater who, judging by his filmography, will try anything once. We can't call ourselves a Linklater fan, but we're......