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General rule of thumb: biopics on singers/bands are painfully awful. I’ll let folks debate the merits of the recent Johnny Cash and Ray Charles features but this July there are a couple of legendary singers that might get a screen treatment worth the brouhaha.

The cell phone rings, you don’t recognize the number, but you do know the voice; it’s your own, and you are being murdered. That’s the premise behind French filmmaker Eric Valette’s remake of Takashi Miike’s 2003 Japanese horror film “Chakushin Ari (One Missed Call)”.

For those of us who can't wait to see Amy Adams (the adorably naïve gal in Junebug) in another Oscar worthy role can stop holding our breath. It has been announced that Adams is set to appear in Mike Nichols' exposé on American Intelligence, Charlie Wilson's War. The film also stars Tom Hanks, indie-fav Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Julia Roberts.

Conventional plot lines fall into the morgue in 13 (Tzameti), director Gela Babluani’s ferociously serene mediation on the consequence of choice, the nature of the survival instinct, the schism between classes, and the corrupting power of wealth. The film’s protagonist Sebastien (George Babluani, brother of the director), is a young Russian immigrant living a squalid existence with his family in a dead-end town in rural France. A series of coincidences that conspire to feel like destiny lead him to a chateau in the French countryside where he agrees to compete for a potentially life-altering fortune in a high-stakes game of Russian Roulette played before an audience of well-heeled gamblers.