There are lots of reasons to be excited about the silver screen right now in Ithaca: Cornell Cinema is firing on all cylinders; cutsie romantic comedies and more sophisticated offerings are available at Cinemapolis; dark thinkers, bloody battles and uplifting idiotics are rotating with astonishing speed through Regal Cinemas. Certain constraints however limit us from jetting off to every movie that perks our interest, and most of the time those choices can be made based on the actors — how many Brad Pitts and Johnny Depps, Julia Roberts and Natalie Portmans does it have? How many does it have to be?