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Click on the film stills above for more on this weekend's new releases and repertory screenings, which also include Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, I Hate Valentine's Day, Local Color, Nollywood Babylon, The Beaches of Agnes, The Girl from Monaco, Tony Manero, A Clockwork Orange, Newsies, The Royal Tenenbaums, Mississippi Mermaid, BAMcinématek's Afro-Punk Festival, and Willie Nelson's 4th of July Celebration.

Here's a fascinating fact for impressing your friends this evening. At 8 p.m. the earth will be at its furthest distance from the sun for the year. The planet's revolution around the sun is slightly elliptical. Today we're about 94.5 million miles from the sun. Early next January we'll be only 91.5 million miles away (as demonstrated by this awesome graphic). The date of the aphelion has only a slight affect on seasonal temperatures, which are largely determined by the 23.5 degree tilt of the earth with respect to its orbital plane. The date of the aphelion changes slowly, it'll occur in the second week of July in 400 years, and in January in several thousand, and is one reason why the Ice Ages will appear again in 20,000 years or so.

The skull of a carnivorous Tyrannosaurus dinosaur and the tusk of a mammoth from the Ice Age were sold at auction yesterday. The IM Chait auction was the first the company has had in New York, held in a Manhattan loft on 5th and 29th. While the pieces of history sold for high prices, the final bids were nowhere near as high as the one for the Breakfast at Tiffany's dress, and only a few went for more than the old Velvet Underground album. Seems we all may be a bit more interested in what we find in attics, basements and stoop sales in Chelsea than what is found under layers of history. Then again, if you know someone who owns a Egyptian mummy's hand...

This week the multiplexes seem practically flooded with new releases, in addition to the good things already out, so much so that Gothamist is starting to fall behind on our movie consumption. But never fear, we shall surely rally. Here's a few suggestions to guide your own weekend viewing.

On May 28th, the new Roland Emmerich film "The Day After Tomorrow" hits theaters, and it's already got NASA and NOAA talking. The film is the story of the new Ice Age. A paleoclimatologist (a scientist who studies the ways weather patterns changed in the past), tries to save the world from the effects of global warming... The plot focusses on New York, but the entire world is experiencing catastrophic hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, tidal waves, and floods while the temperature suddenly drops severely.

Gothamist has been hearing a lot about Jasper Fforde lately, and Newsday has a feature about the British author (whose background includes stints as a film cameraman and living in a family of Oxonians). His books are described thusly:

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Oscar is celebrating its 75th anniversary, I'm celebrating my 25th anniversary of watching Oscar.