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26 UCW JULY 13-19, 2016 WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM presented by Friday, July 22 @ 6pm in Festival Park Bring your appetite! We'll have 10-12 gourmet food trucks dishing out some of the best food on wheels. Fayetteville After 5, in Festival Park, is "the place to go" for date night or a great evening out with family and friends. Enjoy great music, food and fun every fourth Friday of the month now through August. August 26 Firehouse with Breathe New Life and Brad Benson with Kasey Tyndall & Kaylin Roberson next show 'Murica Independence Day: Resurgence (Rated PG-13) by HEATHER GRIFFITHS There are action movies, and there are action movies so cheesy you should buy crackers on your way into the theater. Go ahead, guess which category Independence Day: Resurgence (120 minutes) falls into! Then ask what kind of crackers pair well with wine from Nonsense Vineyards. That might sound mean, but rest assured — I thoroughly enjoyed every pandering, jingoistic, bloodless second of this brainless action film. Sure, the film traded even the tiniest bit of anything that resembled credibility or logic in exchange for nostalgia and explosions, but was the original any better? Go, laugh, and enjoy the spectacle. Leave your film snob friends at home. Back in 1996, way before Trump ever bet the Republican Party that poo flinging was a politically viable position, Roland Emmerich made America great again by having President Bill Pullman give a speech about Independence Day. It was pretty awesome. At first, he was like, maybe the aliens who blew up our planet are just misunderstood. Then, based on speaking to one prisoner, he found out they were jerk aliens and everyone in the theater felt great about trying to nuke them. Twenty years later, the aliens are still jerks, and, in the words of Look! A female President! (Sela Ward), there will be no peace. In the time since the first alien attack, Earth has pretty much fixed itself up. That one stripper (Vivica A. Fox) educated herself into someone who can wear a hospital looking doctor-ish coat and take up minimal screen time. That one science-guy (Jeff Goldblum) is still doing science and his father (Judd Hirsch) is still sprinkling Yiddish phrases into his dialogue with adorable children (Joey King, etc.), because this movie has a diverse cast, gosh darn it! And, what with Interstellar Chinese Space-O-Naut Rain Lao (Angelababy), and those other Chinese actors and the complete absence of representation of 95 percent of the other nations on planet. Except that one warlord guy (Deobia Oparei). He is a magical black person (look it up) that kills aliens with machetes in a way that does not in any way reinforce stereotypes! Also, he goes with Jeff Goldblum to the moonbase because ... Nymphomaniac star, Charlotte Gainsbourg, goes too, because she is suddenly Jeff Goldblum's love interest. There are several other G-rated love interests in the movie. First daughter emeritus Patricia Whitmore (Maika Monroe) is in love with Lt. All-American Action Hero (Liam Hemsworth). Dr. Brakish Okun (Brent Spiner) is in love with Dr. Milton Issacs (John Storey), despite an almost complete lack of any physical contact. Pilot Charlie Miller (Travis Trope) is in love with the Chinese Space-O-Naut. Everybody gets a love interest! Oh, boy! This collection of action sequences is interspersed with lots of family- friendly handholding and set against a backdrop of improbably huge alien ships rabbit punching logic, common sense and physics repeatedly in the kidney. Also, if you can stop giggling and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance during the final scene long enough to hear the dialogue, you can hear the characters promise us a sequel. Now showing at Patriot 14 + IMAX. HEATHER GRIFFITHS, Contributing Writer. COMMENTS? Editor@ upandcomingweekly.com. 910.484.6200. Admission $1.00 • Adult FREE with Paying Child • All Staff FREE