The Barnesyard

There are six new films opening in Sacramento this weekend. In the multiplexes, Ashton Kutcher's "The Guardian" opens against Ashton Kutcher's animated "Open Season". What a duel. Elsewhere, the long-delayed "School for Scoundrels" (starring Barnesyard Bump-ee Billy Bob Thornton) finally debuts. The Crest is opening both Michel Gondry's "The Science of Sleep" and "Heading South", starring a typically oversexed Charlotte Rampling. The Tower has nothing new, but is holding "Feast" over for another round of 11:25 p.m. showings tonight and tomorrow. A film called "Facing the Giants" opens on five area screens, because America needs a Christo-fascist feel-good football movie now more than ever. Here are my picks for the top 5 films in the country:

1) Open Season
2) Jackass 2
3) School For Scoundrels
4) The Guardian
5) The Gridiron Gang

We'll see how I did on Monday morning.

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By the way, don't forget that "The American Astronaut" (which had a one-week stint at the Tower a few years back) is playing tonight at The Fools Foundation on 21st and K (behind the Spaghetti Factory). Admission is five bucks, and one of the film's production designers will be on hand to talk about the movie.