There won’t be any shortage of patriotic fun this weekend. The Denton area has three fireworks displays planned and enough pageantry to stir up a season’s worth of national pride. Denton stages its annual Fourth of July Jubilee, starting with its early-bird offering: the 11th annual Liberty 5K Run and 1-Mile Walk, which will get red-blooded hearts pumping at 7:30 a.m.

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Universal Studios

Johnny Depp stars as legendary Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger, whose lightning raids made him the No. 1 target of J. Edgar Hoover’s fledgling FBI, in Public Enemies.

It’s tough to watch Johnny Depp these days when he’s not wearing eyeliner, a do-rag and a monkey on his shoulder. After gooping up Finding Neverland, glowering vacantly through Sweeney Todd and annihilating every sprinkle of dignity in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, how can he be trusted with another larger-than-life character defined by a complicated past?

Last summer, when Denton Community Theatre staged Encore, director Bill Kirkley got a few questions about the upright piano on the stage. “A bunch of people asked me, ‘Why are you using an upright piano, of all things?’ And some people asked me why we weren’t using the perfectly good Steinway in the Campus Theatre,” Kirkley said. “I just told everybody, ‘How many auditions have you gone to where they used a concert grand to accompany people?’”

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Paramount Pictures

Megan Fox and Shia LaBeouf make a run for it in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

Machines have feelings too. In Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, the follow-up to the lucrative original, which grossed nearly $800 million worldwide, director Michael Bay gives us the soft side of those delicate Autobots, the giant heaps of bolts who came to Earth only to have their rear-ends kicked and sent back to their home planet Cybertron in shame and tears.