We can now settle back into movie releasing normalcy since The Dark Knight Rises has risen. And considering it’s Bele Chere weekend that’s good news for those of us in search of air conditioned amusements that don’t involve going anywhere near downtown. However, all is not skittles and beer. The two art titles opening this week are one thing, but the ones grasping for those simoleons from more mainstream moviegoers look pretty sketchy indeed. Then again, those art titles are choice.

Only one movie opens this week—and that’s no surprise. Put simply, no one wants to put their film up against the poised juggernaut of Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises. Not even the art titles care to tackle this one, but then the current run of art titles—Moonrise Kingdom, To Rome with Love, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Your Sister’s Sister, and even Bernie—are going strong enough that that market might be saturated anyway.

Last week in the hermetically-sealed room of an undisclosed location, three shadowy figures assembled in the gloom of a single candle to make decisions of grave importance about this year’s 48 Hour Film Project. Sworn to secrecy under penalty of who knows what, this trio—this Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego of the movies—were charged with the task of deciding the winners of this year’s bout of Cinema in a Rush.

The first thing I noticed when I got the phone call from Lynn Shelton — the writer-director of Your Sister’s Sister (opening Fri., July 13 at The Carolina) — for our interview was that she hadn’t blocked her number from showing up on caller ID. I liked that. It immediately presented her to me as completely unaffected. And our conversation proved that entirely true.