OPENING THIS WEEK:

THE BUCKET LIST—Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman as a pair of terminal cancer patients who decide to experience all they can while they still can. With Sean Hayes, Beverly Todd and Rob Morrow. Directed by Rob Reiner (Rumor Has It). Reviewed this issue. Flix, Maple Ridge, Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Hollywood, Regal Transit

FIRST SUNDAY—A planned robbery turns into a hostage situation for bargain basement crooks Ice Cube and Tracy Morgan when the supposedly empty church they were planning to rob turns out to contain its entire congregation. With Katt Williams, Loretta Devine, Keith David, Regina Hall and Chi McBride. Directed by David E. Talbert (He Say…She Say…But What Does GOD Say?). Flix, Maple Ridge, Market Arcade, Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Hollywood, Regal Transit

IN THE NAME OF THE KING—Adventure adapted from the video game Dungeon Siege, with Jason Stratham out for revenge against the race of semi-animal warriors who kidnapped his wife. With Leelee Sobieski, John Rhys-Davies, Ron Perlman, Claire Forlani, Matthew Lillard, Ray Liotta and Burt Reynolds. Directed by Uwe Boll (Bloodrayne). Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Hollywood, Regal Transit, Flix

THE ORPHANAGE—A woman gets more than she bargained for when she tries to re-open the orphanage where she was raised in this Spanish ghost story. Starring Belén Rueda, Fernando Cayo and Roger Príncep. Directed by Juan Antonio Bayona. Reviewed this issue. Flix, McKinley, Regal Transit

ETC:

GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 (1933)—A musical that could only have been made at Warner Brothers, the studio that specialized in gritty social realist dramas. It’s best remembered for its Busby Berkeley production numbers, which are still astonishing after 75 years (and who can resist Ginger Rogers singing “We’re in the Money” in pig Latin?). But unlike the MGM musicals that sought to paper over the hard times the country was facing, director Mervyn LeRoy (Little Caesar) makes them a part of the plot, ending with a musical number about the homeless. A must see. Starring Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell and Ned Sparks. Presented as part of the Buffalo Film Seminar. Tues. 7 pm, Market Arcade Film and Arts Center, 639 Main St. (855-3022).

ROBIN HOOD (1922)—Douglas Fairbanks as the blue-blooded thief in what was once the most expensive film ever made in Hollywood. Fairbanks did his own stuntwork, and some of his antics here would make Jackie Chan applaud. But modern audiences will be most surprised by the sheer scale of the production, with its crowds of extras and rambling backstory set during the Crusades. The screening will be accompanied by the Wurlitzer organ. Directed by Allan Dwan. Sun 2 pm. Shea’s Performing Arts Center, 646 Main St.