OTHER RELEASES

Few critics seem to have been granted previews for this delayed-release megabudget flick from Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow). This is usually the sign of a colossal turkey, but the trailers for 10,000 BC are visually impressive: lumbering mammoths, saber-toothed tigers, massive constructions by a despotic empire and a cast of thousands (of extras), all glued together by a melodrama of love, abduction and rescue. And at least it has Cliff Curtis — always good value — in a major role. It’s narrated by Omar Sharif, and if you are wondering, the humans at the dawn of civilization in this film also speak English.

Japan’s frenetic answer to Initial D (which had Chinese, Hong Kongers and Taiwanese playing Japanese characters) and The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (an American film), this “drift racing” movie and manga adaptation has all the cliches you associate with gorgeous youngsters with a thing for spoilers, runway fashions and dying fast. And you can pick the bad guy straight away: He’s the one who also has a thing for thick eyeliner.

This is the second re-release of this biopic of French legend Edith Piaf, this time cashing in on Marion Cotillard’s Best Actress Oscar. Cotillard’s silly comments about Sept. 11 that were dredged up this week may hurt the film’s post-Oscar DVD prospects in the US, but that’s unlikely to matter much here. Showing exclusively at the In89 theater (formerly the Hoover).