Well, there's another small film festival popping up near the Triangle, this time in New Bern. That is where the Sister City Film Festival will debut. The daylong, seven-hour fest, scheduled to begin at 11 Saturday morning, will feature 20 shorts and documentaries from independent filmmakers in New Bern, Swansboro, Wilmington, Chapel Hill and other parts of the state. The headlining film will be a 49-minute number called -- and I'm not making this up -- "Box and Cox." (Cue immature giggling.) It will be at the Athens Theatre, and admission is free. Details: (252) 638-4809; www.myspace.com/newbernfilm.

As for what's in the Triangle, the event I'm most looking forward to is the launching of the "Birth of the Cool" film series this Thursday night at Duke's Nasher Museum of Art. To coincide with the "Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool" exhibit, the museum will show several black-and-proud, Me Decade-era flicks in the following weeks, including "Wattstax," "Shaft," "The Harder They Come" and "Killer of Sheep." (What, nothing starring that human tornado, Rudy Ray Moore?) The first movie up is the 1972 blaxploitation classic "Super Fly." The films will screen at 7 and admission is free. Details: 684-5135; nasher.duke.edu.

If you would like to erase that memory of Sylvester Stallone going bugnuts crazy in that last "Rambo" installment and prefer to remember him as that tormented warrior fighting for all the right reasons, then check out the movie that started it all, 1982's "First Blood." It will screen Thursday night, at 7:30, at two theaters, Brier Creek 14 and North Hills 14. Details: www.fathomevents.com.

And finally, hold on to your film canisters, Flicker night will once again unspool at Cat's Cradle this Monday. Admission is $3. The show starts at 8:30. Details: 967-9053; www.flickerfestival.com.