Here are some of the movies available to Vancouverists on the big screen this weekend, October 3 through 5.

Kiggins (though its website doesn’t seem to be working) offers the Asian-based horror film Mirrors, and Step Brothers, the comedy with Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly. Admission is $4 (but changes to $5 in january).

Cinetopia continues with the new Coen Brothers black comedy Burn After Reading, Choke, based loosely on Northwest writer Chuck Palahniuk’s novel, Eagle Eye, the new political paranoia thriller, Ghost Town, the Ricky Gervase comedy, Nights in Rodanthe, and adds Appaloosa , and Beverly Hills Chihuahua.

The Regal Cascade Stadium 16 Cinemas continues with Burn After Reading, Eagle Eye, Fireproof, Igor, Lakeview Terrace, Miracle at St. Anna, My Best Friend’s Girl, and Nights in Rodanthe, and adds the right wing satire An American Carol, the wester Appaloosa, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Blindness, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, Flash of Genius, and Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, while the Regal Vancouver Plaza 10 Cinema has some of the same titles plus others.

Meanwhile, a few short miles away, the Hollywood Theater continues with the dreadful ’70s homage, Humboldt Country, as well as a revival of the documentary Jazz on a Summer Day.

The Cinema 21 features a documentary about the crisis in the world’s water supply, Flow: For The Love of Water, and another documentary about a local phenomenon, the Chapman swifts, called On The Wing.

The all-digital Living Room Theaters is featuring Transsiberian , a new thriller from the cult director Brad Anderson, the charming documentary Man On Wire, Kabluey, I Served the King of England, the Philip Roth adaptationElegy, The Lucky Ones, and Priceless.

The Northwest Film Center has, among other offerings, further entries in the Global Concerns: Human Rights on Film series, and more films in the David Lean retrospective, including the utterly weird ghost comedy penned by Noel Coward Blithe Spirit (if you see it, look for the high tech coffee pot on display in the film), In Which We Serve, This Happy Breed, and Brief Encounter.

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