It’s a crowded world we live in. Director Danny Boyle drives the point home from the moment 127 Hours opens, putting on screen clip after clip of writhing masses of humanity. So many people, in fact, that just one shot can’t hold them, and he begins subdividing the screen, doubling, tripling the loud, chaotic bustle (both of these elements — split screens and crowds — become separately recurring motifs as the film progresses). For the sake of convenience and society, we cram ourselves into small spaces, but often, for the sake of our sanity, we need to get away from those madding crowds. Aron Ralston was doing just that on a gorgeous late spring day in 2003, on a solo canyoneering trip in the deep, narrow slot canyons of eastern Utah.

DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Shallow Grave Danny Boyle’s award season joyride, courtesy Slumdog Millionaire, has landed him an AFI retrospective of all of the director’s films, and this week the theater screens his 1994 feature debut. The movie introduced not only Boyle to the world, but also Ewan McGregor, who made the leap from British television and bit movie parts…

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From Director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, 28 Days Later) comes Slumdog Millionaire, the film that Rolling Stone’s Peter Travers calls “one of the year’s best” and Richard Corliss from Time Magazine calls “a buoyant hymn to life, and a movie to celebrate.”

A penniless, eighteen year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, Jamal Malik is one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India’s ‘‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” But when the show breaks for the night, suddenly, he is arrested on suspicion of cheating. After all, how could an uneducated street kid possibly know so much? Determined to get to the bottom of Jamal’s story, the jaded Police Inspector spends the night probing Jamal’s incredible past, from his riveting tales of the slums where he and his brother Salim survived by their wits to his hair-raising encounters with local gangs to his heartbreak over Latika, the unforgettable girl he loved and lost.

Each chapter of Jamal’s increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show’s seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show?

When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out…

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Ever wonder how much luck is involved in the success of the average quiz show winner? Sure, being a brainiac doesn’t hurt, but no matter how much you know, unless the Venn diagram of your knowledge and those questions has significant overlap, you’re done and luck trumps preparation. If Ken Jennings’ first Jeopardy! appearance had the set of questions from the day on which he eventually lost, instead of being the most famous game show…

DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Indie: Sunshine A group of astronauts are on a suicide mission to save a dying Sun, lest the earth perish as well. While it may sound like a plot suitable for Michael Bay’s Armageddon 2: Bigger and Hotter, in the hands of director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting) and his 28 Days Later screenwriter, Alex Garland, it may…