This may actually be a week that’s more notable for what we’re losing than for what we’re getting, which is a little on the depressing side. For that matter, there’s some question over just exactly what we’re getting—all this and yet another incomprehensible Wednesday opener.

Another week, another Wednesday opening. The ways of the marketing folks remain mysterious—as does the material they’re choosing for this not-so-special treatment. It’s merely one of a total of four mainstream titles and a single art title coming to town this week for our amusement and amazement.

Once again we have some of those Wednesday openings. Why? I have no earthly idea. But we do. We also have two other mainstream titles, one art film, and a curio that I can’t quite classify. It perhaps doesn’t matter, since it seems to me to be a very long shot in terms of audience appeal. Time will sort that, of course.

Whatever else happens this week at the movies, I suspect that we can be assured that the mainstream titles (of which there are two) will be better than last week’s mainstream titles (of which there were two). Before you get too excited, remember what last week’s titles were. It won’t be hard to be better than those. Now, the art title is another matter.