The summer box-office season concludes this weekend with a surprisingly diverse trio of wide openers.

The season-ending, four-day Labor Day frame often features an R-rated genre pic to lure older teens and young-adult moviegoers to multiplexes one last time before their return to college campuses. This year, it's Fox's blood-spattered crime actioner "Machete," co-directed by genre-meister Robert Rodriguez and tyro helmer Ethan Maniquis and produced by Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino and Rick Schwartz.

"I was nervous about doing a movie about Latinos. I've usually stayed away from it," she told 24 Frames, saying she found most depictions of Latino culture on the big screen to be one-note and marginal. "But after I read the script, I realized this is about a symbol of hope. It was kind of the way we felt about Obama when he was first elected."

Documentary films are the buzz of this year’s Telluride Film Festival. In keeping with tradition, the lineup for the event is announced just 24 hours before the event begins in Colorado tomorrow and the roster includes a number of notable documentaries.

Errol Morris will unveil his latest, “Tabloid,” ahead of its Toronto debut next week, while Ken Burns will present “The Tenth Inning” and Werner Herzog will be at the event with “Happy People: A Year in the Taiga.”

Fantasy football has grown from an obscure hobby to a nationally advertised phenomenon. Organized leagues can play for some serious money. And now Hollywood is getting in the act. No sooner did my league finish drafting than one of my fellow fantasy owners emailed me this:

Isn't this a good idea for a spec?

“You have the hands of a craftsman, not an artist,” says a friendly village priest (Paolo Bonacelli) to an American expatriate whose identity is ambiguous but whose face is recognizable to the rest of us as George Clooney’s. This fellow, temporarily assuming the name Edward, having been Jack before, but known to two different women as Mr. Butterfly, has showed up in a picturesque town in Abruzzo, a mountainous region East of Rome, where he’s pretending to be a photographer.