1 Adapted from the film starring Michael Caine and Steve Martin, "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" is a shameless piffle but director Kent Knutson has mounted a fun, suitably snarky production at Old Log Theater. It's the story of two competing con men who prey on wealthy widows on the French Riviera. Peter Moore, right, dips into the suave charm of a latter-day Ronald Colman. Loose-limbed Eric Morris aims for a crass American vibe. oldlog.com

3 A cannily goofy wartime comedy of manners, "Queen and Country" is a delightfully whimsical portrait of 1952 England. The film is a sequel to director John Boorman's 1987 Oscar-nominated "Hope and Glory," which hilariously reflected his childhood memories of World War II London. His protagonist is now 19 and a new conscript very clumsily learning to march with his rowdy friend. The boys aren't shipped off to Korea but are mortified by their assignment to teach new arrivals how to type.

5 After a six-year lull between albums and a couple of lineup changes, the distortion-caressing rock noodlers Built to Spill come back roaring on their eighth album, "Untethered Moon." Frontman Doug Martsch plays it relatively cool and even-keel on vocals and lyrics, and instead the guitars provide most of the drama here, from the fragmented stop/go jams in "Living Zoo" to the hold-on-for-life crescendo in the eight-minute finale, "When I'm Blind." You're gonna need some good speakers for this one. Out Tuesday.

2 "The History of Fly-Fishing in Fifty Flies" cleverly threads the sport through the eyes of fish hooks. It begins in 1496 when a book attributed to an English prioress described how to tie a dozen different fishing flies. Author Ian Whitelaw casts around the world and across centuries describing the evolution of fishing flies. He lands at unexpected places like Hungry Jack Lake in northeastern Minnesota where, in 1936, Don Gapen invented the Muddler Minnow — still famous and used today.

4 What "Standing in the Shadows" did for Motown musicians and "20 Feet From Stardom" did for backup vocalists, the interview-heavy documentary "The Wrecking Crew" does for the anonymous Los Angeles session players who played on 1960s hits by the Byrds, Beach Boys, Frank Sinatra, Simon & Garfunkel, Sonny & Cher and others. Some of the sidemen, including Glen Campbell and Leon Russell, became famous artists, but this film will leave liner-note geeks feelin' groovy. Lagoon Theater