It’s dark and grey outside my window today which suits me just fine as I’m too sick to do anything but mope today. I’m about to fix myself a cup of tea and watch Key Largo until I drift off to sleep, but if you’re looking for something more lively in the way of film experiences you can get it all over the place. There are a number of hot new blockbusters at the cineplexes, plus:

• Midnight at the Egyptian this weekend is Cannibal! The Musical. I believe the title pretty much speaks for itself.
• If you liked Arbus, a film that imagined a biography of Diane Arbus and are fond of old-fashioned melodramatic romance, you might like Becoming Jane which is playing at the Guild 45th and stars Anne Hathaway (The Princess Diaries, The Devil Wore Prada) as Jane Austen in a film that imagines a biography for her. (Also at the Meridian 16 downtown and other Regal theaters throughout the area.
• Over at the Metro, you can see Arctic Tale, a National Geographic film about the painful, tragic loss of Arctic habitat for the beautiful, fascinating creatures who live there. (This is also at Regal cinemas around town.)
• At Seattle’s Central Cinema see Free Willy or Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai this weekend. Can’t make it this weekend? Head over Monday for 16mm night featuring the John Wayne classic Angel & the Badman
• If you don’t mind the gloomy weather, go outside for The Princess Bride and House of Flying Daggers, respectively Friday and Saturday’s selections for Movies at the Mural; Moulin Rouge (the Baz Luhrman directed, Nicole Kidman/Ewan McGregor vehicle, not the older, more staid film) at Seattle Outdoor Cinema in Fremont (Saturday); or, West Seattle’s Sidewalk Cinema which is showing The Wizard of Oz this Saturday.
• The Grand Illuision continues its All Monsters Attack series with The Beast, Giant Claw, Slithis, and Demons this weekend and The Craving starting Monday.

Enjoy your weekend, and, please feel free to share your remedies for the flu.