Thursday, July 24, 2003
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Film: Beyond the Multiplex

This week's special screenings

The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course

(PG, 90 min.) Crikey! Avoid this dismal, dingo-dumb bit to turn Steve Irwin into Crocodile Dundee. Crown Neonopolis, 450 E. Fremont St., 383-9600, free. Thu., July 24 10 a.m. (Next week's movie: The Wizard of Oz.)

Monsters, Inc.

(G, 92 min.) John Goodman and Billy Crystal head the cast of Pixar's witty, 2001 animated hit. Family film series, Jaycee Park, S. Eastern Ave. at St. Louis, 229-6328, free. Thu., July 24 8 p.m. (Next week's movie: Antz.)

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

(R, 95 min.) The perennial, kinky, audience-participation mock-horror hit. Sci-Fi Empire, 4331 W. Charleston Blvd., 314-0330, $6. Sat., July 26 11:30 p.m.

8 Women

(R, 103 min.) [8 Femmes] Fanny Ardant, Emmanuelle Béart, Danielle Darrieux, Catherine Deneuve and Isabelle Huppert star in Franãois Ozon's witty 2002 musical whodunit pastiche. (French dialogue, with subtitles.) UNLV's CBC A-108, 895-3431, free. Mon., July 28 7 p.m.

Cold Fever

(NR, 83 min.) [A koldum klaka] NOTBAD presents Fridrik Thor Fridriksson's 1994 road movie with Masatoshi Nagase as a Japanese businessman making a spiritual journey through Iceland. (English, German, Japanese and Icelandic dialogue, with subtitles) Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road, 507-3459, free. Tue., July 29 7:15 p.m.--AA