Maybe you could get anything you wanted at Alice’s famous restaurant of yore, but forget about that at Kenny Shopsin’s eponymously named New York eatery, even if the profane, pungently quirky proprietor does claim to offer 900 dishes and items (probably a matter of forgivable hyperbole). Sometimes, you can’t get anything you want at Shopsin’s because Shopsin may refuse to serve you. In I Like Killing Flies, Matt Mahurin’s documentary about Shopsin and his popular joint, one woman, a patron and, evidently, a regular, tells us she has had “the honor of being thrown out. I believe everyone should have it.”

Having been more than usually stressed of late, I attended the screening of what was billed as a new film starring Thai kickboxing sensation Tony Jaa without realizing that I had already seen it. The Protector is actually a retitled version of 2005’s Tom Yum Goong, a.k.a. Honour of the Beast, which has been available as an import DVD for well over a year. But because it’s an entertaining film, a worthy followup to Jaa’s hit Ong Bak, I settled in to watch it and see what changes the Weinstein brothers might have wrought upon it. (At Miramax, the Weinsteins—stop me if you’ve heard this—were notorious for putting their “personal stamp” on foreign films they acquired for American distribution by heavily reediting, redubbing and rescoring them.)