DATE NIGHT – Steve Carrell & Tina Fey’s evening out is turned upside-down in action comedy
- 7:30 nightly, Friday thru Thursday + 1:30 matinee Saturday & Sunday
FANTASTIC MR. FOX – Wes Anderson’s animated comedy adventure w/voices of Clooney & Streep
- 9:10 nightly, Friday thru Thursday + 3:10 matinee Saturday & Sunday
July 30 – August 5
Friday thru Thursday @ 7:30 + Saturday & Sunday @ 1:30
DATE NIGHT
dir. Shawn Levy, USA 2010
PG (violence, coarse & sexual language)
1 hour 28 minutes
Action/comedy/romance starring Steve Carell (The 40 Year Old Virgin, TV’s The Office) and Tina Fey (Mean Girls, TV’s 30 Rock) as a run-of-the-mill married couple whose attempt at a glamorous and romantic evening is turned into something more thrilling and dangerous by a case of mistaken identity. With Mark Wahlberg, Taraji P. Henson, Jimmi Simpson, Common, William Fichtner, Leighton Meester, Kirsten Wiig, Mark Ruffalo, James Franco, Mila Kunis and Ray Liotta. Directed by Shawn Levy (Cheaper By The Dozen, A Night at the Museum.)
“This is the rare screwball comedy that is superbly paced, cleverly plotted and hilarious from start to finish.” – Claudia Puig, USA Today
“As the characters wiggle their way out of scrapes during a bizarro night in New York City, the actors hold steady as grownups, a rarity in a world of rom-coms about flighty girls and lost boys… with Carell and Fey collaborating, the movie becomes far more interesting than its plot or structure.” – Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
“Carell and Fey are both natural comic performers, who know that their job in a comedy is to behave with as much realism as possible and let the impossibilities whirl around them… Date Night encourages Hollywood comedy to occasionally dial down, and realize that comedy emerges from characters and situations and can’t be manufactured from manic stunts and overkill.” – Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
“Watching these two intensely likable comedians work together is a special pleasure.” – Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
“It’s cast, down to the smallest role, with genuinely funny performers, people who understand how to time a joke, deliver a setup, underplay a deadpan glance.” – Dana Stevens, Slate
July 30 – August 5
Friday thru Thursday @ 9:10 + Saturday & Sunday @ 3:10
FANTASTIC MR. FOX
dir. Wes Anderson, USA/UK 2009
G (violence)
1 hour 27 minutes
Stop-motion animated comedy adventure from writer/director Wes Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou) adapted from the children’s novel by Roald Dahl (Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach) about an urbane fox who can’t resist stealing from the farmers, with consequences affecting the whole animal community. Featuring the voices of George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Michael Gambon, Owen Wilson and Willem Dafoe.
“An adventure in pure imagination that plays to the smart kid in all of us.” – Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
“a visual treasure that successfully blends deadpan quirkiness with a wry realism rarely seen in any film, let alone one for children” – Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News
“a marvel to behold — with wonderful shifts in perspective, an intensely tactile design, and an intentional herky-jerkiness of motion that only enriches the make-believe atmosphere” – Scott Foundas, Village Voice
“Anderson creates an endearingly tactile fairy-tale thrift-shop universe… a modly surreal, underground-burrowing heist yarn” – Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
“[Anderson's] most fully realized and satisfying film. Once you adjust to its stop-and-start rhythms and its scruffy looks, you can appreciate its wit, its beauty and the sly gravity of its emotional undercurrents.” – A.O. Scott, New York Times
HARRY BROWN – neighbourhood violence gets to elderly veteran Michael Caine in crime drama
- 7:30 nightly, Friday thru Thursday + 1:30 matinee Saturday & Sunday
SPLICE – scientist couple Adrien Brody & Sarah Polley conduct DNA experiments in sci-fi thriller
- 9:25 nightly, Friday thru Thursday + 3:25 matinee Saturday & Sunday
July 23 – 29
Friday thru Thursday @ 7:30 + Saturday & Sunday @ 1:30
HARRY BROWN
dir. Daniel Barber, UK 2009
14A (violence; coarse language; sexually suggestive scenes)
1 hour 44 minutes
Character study meets vigilante justice in British crime drama starring Michael Caine as an elderly ex-serviceman living in a London housing estate plagued by drugs and gang violence. With Emily Mortimer, Charlie Creed-Miles, Liam Cunningham, Ben Drew, Iain Glen and David Bradley.
“This portrait of the soldier as an old man is deeply moving.” – Claudia Puig, USA Today
“a revenge thriller poised somewhere between Death Wish and Gran Torino… Caine is a subtle actor who builds characters from the inside out… it places story and character above manufactured ‘thrills’ and works” – Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
“Harry Brown has more to say, about aging, about old-school courtesy in collision with blind stupid violence, and about how sometimes pensioners on a fixed income get stuck in neighborhoods that turn dangerous… Caine uses a good script and a stock action premise to create something unexpectedly moving, one of his most heartfelt portraits in recent years” – Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
“a strong directing debut for Barber, who uses the poignant power of Harry’s experience to take a universal cut at decaying communities and the poverty of soul as well as pocket” – Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times
“Not to be overlooked are the film’s wealth of fine supporting performances and technical contributions — the always wonderful Emily Mortimer, Martin Ruhe’s extraordinary cinematography and Kave Quinn’s incisive production design each playing a part in what must be considered one of the very best films of the first half of 2010.” – Wade Major, Boxoffice Magazine
July 23 – 29
Friday thru Thursday @ 9:25 + Saturday & Sunday @ 3:25
SPLICE
dir. Vincenzo Natali, Canada/France/USA 2009
14A (sexually suggestive scenes)
1 hour 45 minutes
Sci-fi thriller starring Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley as scientists devoted to their careers and each other who ignore legal and ethical boundaries to conduct unauthorised genetic engineering experiments. With French actress Delphine Chanéac and directed by Vincenczo Natali (Cube, Cypher.)
“Smart, scary — and at times very funny — horror movie” – Lou Lumenick, New York Post
“Like an exciting experimental genetic strain bred of time-tested DNA, the cool, unwieldy sci-fi horror-thriller Splice can trace its cinematic ancestry back to Frankenstein. Yet as co-written and directed with obsessive passion by Vincenzo Natali (Cube), the movie is a cheeky, great-looking, thoughtfully loopy creature feature about the lure and dangers of cutting-edge gene splicing.” – Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
“an intelligent movie that, in between its small boos and an occasional hair-raising jolt, explores chewy issues like bioethics, abortion, corporate-sponsored science, commitment problems between lovers and even Freudian-worthy family dynamics” – Manohla Dargis, New York Times
“over the top, inelegant and so defiantly crazy that it works, reminding you how fun gore and creatures that go bump (and grind) in the night can be” – Mary Pols, Time
“The flick is driven not by special effects or outrageously gory acts of violence, but by its characters. Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley reinvent the crazy scientists playing God, turning in performances that are charming one minute, petulant the next, and ultimately, compellingly hubristic.” – John DeVore, Premiere
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