Mickey Rourke terrorises in "Java Heat"

He hams it up so much as the villain, a terrorist mastermind who has killed a sultana and kidnapped her daughter, that Indonesia’s Islamic hardliners ought to protest.
Out to stop Rourke are young leading man Kellen Lutz, an American cop who forms an uneasy partnership with a local detective (Ario Bayu).

Also opening
“Kick-Ass 2” – The costumed crimefighter whose real name is Dave is back for more action along with his pal Hit-Girl. Read more about it at left.

“Any Day Now” – Alan Cumming and Garret Dillahunt star as an, ahem, “unconventional couple” in the late 1970s who get into a legal battle to adopt an orphaned boy with Downs syndrome. This fact-based drama won several awards on the film-festival circuit last year. It’s at House on RCA and SF World Cinema at CentralWorld.

“The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones” – Lily Collins is a wise-cracking teenage girl in New York City who has the gift of seeing a secret supernatural parallel world. She joins with a band of impossibly good-looking half angels to fight computer-generated demons, warlocks, vampires and werewolves, all while attending fabulous parties. It’s based on the first book in the series of young-adult novels by Cassandra Clare. Harald Zwart (“The Pink Panther 2”, “The Karate Kid” remake) directs.

“The Conjuring” – James Wan, director of “Saw” and “Insidious”, brings his trademark creepy dolls to this fact-based horror tale of the Warrens, the husband-and-wife paranormal investigators best known for their work in Amityville. Here, they investigate strange happenings in a farmhouse in Rhode Island. Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga star.

“The Second Sight” (“Jit Sampad 3D) – Pornchai Hongrattanaporn, a director known for his colourful comedies like “Bangkok Loco”, makes the move into horror, and for the first time, in 3D, with this latest three-dimensional offering from venerable Thai studio Five Star Production.

“Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai Again” – Akshay Kumar, Imran Khan, Sonakshi Sinha and Sonali Bendre star in this sequel to 2010’s Bollywood gangster movie. It’s in Hindi with English and Thai subtitles at Major Cineplex Sukhumvit and Rama III.

Also showing

17th Thai Short Film and Video Festival – Running through September 1, Thailand’s longest-running film fest has many highlights, including the S-Express Singapore package today. Tomorrow offers a full day starting at 11am, with always excellent Best of Clermont-Ferrand among the must-sees. Find out more about it in Thai Frames at left.

The Friese-Greene Club – The month of documentaries continues with labour troubles in “Harlan County USA” tonight and 1966’s ode to surfing “The Endless Summer” tomorrow. On Sunday, go inside a mental asylum with Frederick Wiseman in 1967’s “Titicut Follies”. Next Wednesday is Chris Marker’s visually poetic “Sans Soleil”. Shows are at 8pm. The private club is down an alley next to the Queen’s Park Imperial Hotel on Sukhumvit Soi 22. With just nine seats, the screening room fills up fast, so reservations are recommended. For details, visit www.FGC.in.th.

“La Danse” – The Friese-Greene Club isn’t the only place in town showing documentaries by Frederick Wiseman. Next Wednesday’s free movie at the Alliance Fran