First of all, let me point out that no, I have not recently adopted the use of Internet Slang nor am I so lazy that I cannot type out 3 letters. I'm going to give the benefit of the doubt here and assume most people are already familiar with 4REAL and their mantra. If this is the case, skip the next two paragraphs. For the rest, 4REAL is a documentary television project turned international success story and this summer they are turning up the good time vibes.

I love a good David Mamet movie. His dialogue and plot twists are always top-notch, putting his signature speech patterns on every character he writes. Witness The Untouchables or Glengarry GlenRoss or The Spanish Prisoner, movies with plots that are not dumbed down for a mass audience. They're full of smart, intellectual characters who speak in rhythms and puzzles, pushing the viewer to use their brain rather than give standard expository dialogue to move the story along and make it easier for a wide audience to digest. Luckily for us, his new film Redbelt opens this week. It stars Chiwetel Ejiofor as a martial-arts instructor who gets forced into participating in a prize bout against his will through a series of typically shady Mamet-esque circumstances. Featuring a supporting cast that includes Joe Mantegna, Emily Mortimer, Ricky Jay and Tim Allen (!) as a washed-up actor, Redbelt has been getting slightly mixed reviews, but for Mamet fans, like myself, that won't stop us from going to see it first weekend.

Ashton Kutcher returns to give more reasons for an assassination attempt in his new film What Happens In Vegas..., starring with his female equivalent Cameron Diaz. It's about two predictably zany people who get drunk and wake up to find out they got married. My question is didn't this already happen in an episode of Friends? I hate to defend that show but you know generic Hollywood comedies are running low on ideas when they start ripping off a 10-year-old episode of Friends.

We see them all the time: at the back of the bus, surrounded by overstuffed plastic bags and attempting to make conversation with a confused looking twenty-something; battling off raccoons for hidden scores of pop cans in UBC garbage bins; or lying in the sun outside the VAG, smoking the day's butt collection, often looking more at peace than the bustling city which surrounds them. That's right, I speak of our city's visible but enigmatic community of unemployed bottle collectors, a group who find themselves the subject of a hot local documentary which screens at VIFC tonight and Thursday.

Spending a lot of the day either searching for plastic or hauling bags around town, surviving off recycling takes a lot of strength, stamina, and - if they're available - auxiliary can-carrying devices, i.e, shopping carts. Murray Siple's Carts of Darkness follows a group of North Van 'binners' who use their shopping carts as more than mere business-aids; turning them into something like scooters crossed with street luges, cruising and racing down North Vancouver hills at 60kph. The extreme-sport escapism is almost as fascinating as the story of the men themselves, a bracket of Vancouver society often glimpsed but rarely seen.

More on this exciting doc, as well as a trailer, after the jump...

Two high-concept comedies open this weekend, the first has Tina Fey making her leading lady debut in Baby Mama, starring as a businesswoman who, when discovering she is infertile, hooks up with a trailer trash-type surrogate mom, Amy Poehler, in order to have her baby. Co-Starring Greg Kinnear, Sigourney Weaver and Steve Martin, it's been getting mixed reviews but fans of Fey and Poehler's work on 30 Rock and SNL should enjoy it nonetheless.

The other big comedy is the sequel to one of the biggest stoner comedies ever, Harold & Kumar: Escape from Guantanamo Bay. Kal Penn and John Cho return in the title roles, this time running from government agents after trying to sneak a bong onboard their flight to Amsterdam. Neil Patrick Harris returns as himself and former Daily Show correspondent Rob Corddry makes an appearance. It's been said that if you enjoyed the first movie, there would be no reason not to enjoy this one.

If you're a big Freaks And Geeks fan like myself, you might be interested in this weekend's new film Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which F&G vet Jason Segel wrote and stars in, along with Kristen Bell, Jonah Hill and Paul Rudd. Produced by Judd Apatow, Forgetting Sarah Marshall tells the tale of a man who devastation after a messy break-up leads him to a tropical resort, only to find his ex and her new beau are staying at the same place. It's been netting surprisingly good reviews and if you like Jason Segel it's pretty much a no-brainer.

Opening in Vancouver this week is Smart People, starring Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker, Thomas Haden Church and, Juno herself, Ellen Page. If an actor grows a beard and wears a brown sport coat, a la Robin Williams, they must be portraying someone in a respectable profession playing against type and, coincidentally, Quaid plays a widowed professor who falls for one of his former students, played by Parker. Church plays an art house goofball, just like the one in Sideways, and Page plays a sassy, ahead-of-her-years teenager, just the like the one in Juno, but you know the old saying, if it worked once...