Midnight at the Egyptian: The Lollipop Girls in Hard Candy, a 3D “erotic” film from the 70s that will probably make you laugh more than it will turn you on but offers considerable joy of watching celluloid bodies moving in triple-D.

One week only at the Varsity: Goodbye Solo is a Venice Film Festival award winning movie about a young Senegalese cab driver and a local good ol’boy in Winston-Salem, NC. Although they initially seem like an unlikely pair, the two are drawn together into a genuine friendship that enriches both of their lives.

If you like creepy, over the top, violent, action-packed, sexually charged films, whether played straight or for laughs, you really should be hanging out at the Grand Illusion on a regular basis as they are the local masters at bringing the traumatically twisted on film. This Friday and Saturday they present the Deep Red International Festival of Fantastic Films featuring “zombies, voodoo dolls, cannibals, mutant children” and ghouls and gore aplenty. Friday night see three full-length freaky films; Saturday’s screenings include four more features and a free shorts program at 3pm. Late nights this weekend check out Black Devil Doll: sex, violence and an evil from beyond.

Sunday the Grand Illusion shifts gears to a family friendly program of historical animation created by cartoon legends Max and Dave Fleischer including shorts featuring Betty Boop, Superman and Popeye, plus full length feature Gulliver’s Travels, all drawn by hand and still as charming now as they were when they were first released. Through Thursday.

NWFF presents two remarkable films this weekend. First, the US theatrical premiere of Green Screen, Chinese director Jia Zhang-ke’s documentary and fiction hybrid that demonstrates the universality of gentrification as China past is swept away and rebuilt in the form of a formerly successful factory destroyed to make room for an upscale apartment complex. (A panel discussion about blending documentary and fiction filmmaking follows the 7pm screening on Wednesday, May 13.)

Saturday night best selling author Dave Eggers will be in the house at NWFF for a Q&A that follows a special screening of Away We Go, directed by Academy Award winning director Sam Mendes (American Beauty) and co-written by Eggers and Vendela Vida. This tender-hearted and funny film crosses the US in the company of an expectant couple looking to find the perfect place to call home for their new family. The movie screens at 4:30 pm at the Harvard Exit and all proceeds from the event go to support the programs of 826 Seattle.

Central Cinema offers up a clever double feature with Baz Luhrmann’s brightly colored, semi-modernized Romeo + Juliet starring the lovely pair of Leonardo Di Caprio and Claire Danes as the titular couple followed by a Tromeo & Juliet, shocksploitation house Troma’s rather unique take on the tale of tragic young love which is undoubtedly the only version of the tale existent in which Juliet transforms into a monster with a male member.

Revanche continues this week at SIFF. Gotz Spielmann’s intense drama in which ex-con Alex robs a bank to fund a new life for himself and his girlfriend Tamara only to witness her shooting at the hands of a policeman named Alex. Alex flees to his grandfather’s country farm to escape the fallout from the robbery only to discover that Alex and his wife live nearby, inspiring him to thoughts of revenge, plans complicated when he makes the friendly acquaintance of Alex’s wife.