1. PARKER:    Jason Statham stars as the title character in this screen version of the character created by Donald Westlake for the best-selling series of novels.  Parker is a bad guy – he’s a thief, but he has principles – he doesn’t steal from the poor and he doesn’t hurt innocent people.  When the crew with which he works on a major heist turns on him and leaves him for dead, they are no longer categorized as “innocent people,” and it’s payback time as Parker, now with a new identity, comes after them.  Jennifer Lopez co-stars in this terrific action-thriller. Rated 18A.

2. THE LAST STAND:   It tanked at the box office which may be a message for Arnold Schwarzenegger and his “come back” … but I found this to be a pretty good action flick for what it is – mindless stuff blowing up.  As Sheriff Ray ...

1. TEXAS CHAINSAW 3D:    You don’t need much more than the title to know where this is going.  Years after the original events of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, a young woman named Heather (Alexandra Daddario) learns that she has inherited some property in Texas from her grandmother.  She decides to collect some of her best friends and make it a road trip, heading to the rural community where Heather finds a large, isolated farm with an old, dilapidated mansion on it.  But who’s that in the basement?  The reason she needs her friends with her, is that Leatherface, presumed dead after the original, has survived, he lives here, and he needs people to kill.  And eat.  Hence the friends.  The 3D adds little. Rated 18A.

2. CLOUD ATLAS:   Be prepared to watch this one at least twice in order to figure out just what is going on. Tom ...