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Despite being hyped by its evil corporate owner AEG, Michael Jackson's This Is It only earned a decent-but-hardly-great $21.3M at the box office this weekend. It was enough to win the weekend, though Paranormal Activity made a strong charge at second place ($16.5M | $84.7M). After that it was all hold-overs. The unusually robust Law Abiding Citizen continued to do well ($7.3M | $51.3M) as did the moderately funny Couples Retreat ($6M | $86.6M). The vile and stupid Saw VI rounded out the top 5 with $5.5M ($22.8M).

       

I know that plenty of people are looking forward to seeing Michael Jackson's ghoulish This Is It. I am not one of those people. Have fun, weirdos! Has Jared Hess lost his mojo? Nacho Libre was a step down from Napoleon Dynamite and Gentlemen Broncos looks like another step down the ladder. I was never really a fan of the original Boondock Saints, so Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day is pretty low on my radar. Why reward a jerk-off like Troy Duffy with my hard-earned treasure? The best film of the week may just be The House of the Devil. Cue "unfortunately, no one will see it" meme. If you're looking for something good other than horror, give Skin your time and money. It stars the great Sam Neill. That should be reason enough to see it.

Even though the Arclight is modern-day movie-viewing perfection, sometimes you want to step back into the past and enjoy a film in a classic theatre.

LAist and our friends at RES Magazine would like to send you and a friend to the Shorts One program this Thursday—opening night of RESFest LA, taking place this weekend at the Egyptian Theatre. Along with the program, which includes short films by directors like Mike Mills and Jared Hess, you will also be going to the opening night party immediately following the screening.

Jared Hess (director of Napoleon Dynamite and Postal Service's most recent video) will be part of the Q and A tonight along with Michael and Olivier Gondry and Peter Cornwell at this month's RES screening.