Carbon Arc  Cinema is still on hiatus, but will roar back next Friday with new international films, and every Friday after that through April. For all the details you can visit my Carbon Arc blog here.

(There has been one change to the line-up: Anomalisa, which was going to screen on April 1, has been cancelled. On that evening instead we’ll be showing a Studio Ghibli film, Only Yesterday. )

Opening Friday is the third Divergent film, Allegiant. I enjoyed the first one for its weird apocalypse-as-seen-through-the-prism-of-high-school-cliques plot and enthusiastic direction, but the second film, Insurgent, was a disaster. I’m feeling pretty damn lukewarm about seeing a third, especially when I hear they’ve split the book trilogy into two final movies, a play for box office that spoiled the last couple Hunger Games movies.

The Bronze is a raunchy independent comedy about a former gymnast addicted to her fame, starring and co-written by The Big Bang Theory‘s Melissa Rauch. I think the reviews for the film have been overly harsh: It delivers a few solid laughs. 

Also opening is Born To Be Blue, the Canadian-made Chet Baker biopic. I wanted to like it more, but felt it hit way too many musical biopic conventions to feel fresh.

Lately it’s felt like a new American Christian movie opens every week. Meanwhile, we can have a two-hour Canadian Screen Awards where the bulk of the winning feature films I haven’t even heard of, and may never even get a chance to see. What is wrong with this industry?

Anyway, Jennifer Garner’s most recent solid career choice Miracles From Heaven has opened.