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ARMY OF DARKNESS (R) 1993. The
caitoonish, wide-eyed actor Bruce
Campbell returns in this third install
ment of director Sam Raimis hilarious
Evil Dead flicks. In a mix of action,
horror, graphic violenoe and comedy,
the film sends its hero back to medieval
time through the powers of a magic,
“evil* book to fight an army of the dead.
With Embeth Davidtz, Ian Abercrombie,
and Bridget Fonda. Showing Friday
8/25 and Saturday. 8/26. (Tate)
THE ART OF WAR (R) Wesley Snipes
is an elite covert agent who must
uncover an international plot to bring
down the UN on the eve of an historic
summit with China in this spy/political
drama directed by Christian Duguay
[TheAssignment, Screamers). With
Donald Sutherland. Anne Archer,
Michael Biehn and Cary-Hiroyuki
Tagawa. Opens Friday. (Beechwood)
AUTUMN IN NEW YORK (PG-13) A
decidedly sappy. Big Apple tear-jerker
from director Joan Chen. This romantic
drama follows an aging Manhattan
womanizer (Richard Gere) as le falls in
love with a sweet, sparkiy young woman
(Winona Ryder) who happens to be less
than half his age. The two seem perfect
for each other, but. not for long. With
Anthony LaPaglia. Elaine Stritch.
(Beechwood. Carmike)
BIG MOMMA’S HOUSE (PG-13)
Martin Lawrence stars in this crude
comedy about a slick city detective who
poses as an obese Georgia grand
mother. This is derivative stuff con
sisting of little more than a continuous
string of gags and one-liners revolving
around the same joke, but audiences are
howling anyway. (Mall)
BLESS THE CHIL D (R) Kim Basinger
confronts The Devil and his cronies in
this tiresome, poorly made ‘supernat
ural thriller* from director Chuck
Kussell. She* a psychiatric nurse living
in New York trying to raise a young girt
who has ‘special’ talents. When a pow
erful. wicked cult leader (Rufus Sewell)
shows up, the hooey gets thick. This
basically attempts to rip off previous,
better crafted ecumenical dramas, but
rft dumber than Stigmata and Fallen put
together. With Ian Holm, Jimmy Smits
and Holliston Coleman. (Beechwood.
Carmike)
BOYS AND GIRLS (PG-13) Freddie
Prinze. Jr. and Claire Fortani carry on a
ridiculously uptight, long-term adoles
cent crush from their early teens well
into their fate-college years in this thick
headed romantic comedy from director
Robert Iscove (SheSAII That). With
Jason Biggs. (Mall)
BRING fT ON (PG-13) A lily white San
Diego cheerleading squad is sure to win
the national trophy for the sixth year in a
row.,. until the newly-elected captain
(Kirsten Dunst of Virgin Suicides and
Dick) discovers that the perfectly-chore
ographed routines were in fact stolen
from a hip hop squad from East
Compton. Rivalry ensues. This comedic
teen drama is a full-length debut from
director Peyton Reed, who has garnered
acclaim for his video work with The
Connells and Superchunk and his tele
vision work on ‘Upright Citizens
Brigade* and “Mr. Show With Bnb And
David." Co-starring Gabrielle Union
[TVs "Moesha"). Eiiza Dushku (TV’s
“Buffy The Vampire Slayer") and Jesse
Bradford (A Soldierd Daughter Never
Cried). Opens Friday. (Beechwood,
Carmike)
THE CELL (R) See Movie Pick.
(Beechwood. Carmike)
CENTER STAGE (PG-13) A surpris
ingly waichable Fame-like drama about
a young group of ballet students who
get tangled up in a typical late-teen soap
opera. Directed by Nicholas Hynter.
Starring Amanda Schull. Susan May
Pratt. Peter Gallagher and Ethan Stiefel.
(Mall)
COYOTE UGLY (PG-13) Producer
Jerry Bruckheimer’s mindless comedy
of tackiness follows a 21-year-old,
small-town New Jersey girt (Piper
Perabo) as she descends into
Manhattan in hopes of a songwriting
career. She takes a cheap apartment in
Chinatown and gets a job at Coyote
Ugly, a wild tavern in the East Village
where bartenders oump buckets of ice
water over their breasts, light the bar on
fire and lap dance for tips. Ridiculous.
With Adam Garcia. Maria Bello. Tyra
Banks and John Goodman.
(Beechwood. Carmike)
THE CREW (PG-13) Gangsters, strip
pers. and... retirement home residents?
This comedy-caper follows four former
wiseguys (Richard Dreyfuss, Burt
Reynolds. Dan Hedaya and Seymour
Cassel) as they attempt to save their
dilapidated residence hotel in South
Beach. Miami. They hatch a seemingly
simple crime scheme that inevitably
goes awry and inadvertently entangles a
paranoid drug ioru who is convinced
he’s about to be rubbed out by a myste
rious gangland rival. With Jennifer Tilly.
Directed by Michael Dinner (Heaven
Help Ud). Opens Friday' (Carmike)
DISNEY’S THE KID (PG) This silly
family comedy is syrupy and obnoxious
but entertaining, nonetheless. Bruce
Willis plays a sarcastic LA image con
sultant who gets to meet himself as an
8-year-old kid. The pudgy kid, played
with convincing charm and wit by pouty
newcomer Spencer Breslin, can! under
stand why he's been transplanted to his
future, either. The two develop a decent
rapport, however, aid Willis’ cold heart
inevitably thaws. With Emily Mortimer
and Lily Tomlin. Ends Thursday.
(Beechwood)
“FLICKER" (NR) Fridays and
Saturday’s program features the 1986
documentary Film Before Film This
look back at the birth of filmmaking
from director Weiner Nekes includes
footage of early animation, shadow
plays, peep shows, flip books, magic
lanterns, panoramic scrolls and other
formats. Monday's and Tuesday's pro
gram brings another “Flicker Local’’-
a collection of short Super-8. Double-8
and 1 6mm films shot and edited by
local filmmakers. Call 546-0039 for
more information. (Flicker Theatre)
GODZILLA 2000 (PG) This 23ro entry
in the long-running Godzilla monster
series is choppy, cheap-looking and
loads of fun... for those already initi
ated into the whole scene. Veteran
Japanese filmmaker Takac Okawara.
who worked on a half-dozen Godzilla
project prior to this one. stays loyal to
the legend and lore of the famed mon
ster (the recent Americanized, tacky
Godzilla certainly oidnl) and pits the
lumbering lizard against a modem
foe—a gigantic alien creature named
Orga. The flick wastes no time: a village
and a highway outside of Tokyo get flat
tened within the first five minutes with
townspeople running around yelling
things like. “Oh no! It’s Godzilla" and
‘Great Caesar’s ghost!" in badly-dubbea
English. The battle betwen those who
wish to study and analyze the monster
(the “Godzilla Prediction Network"
resembles the crew from Twister) and
those who wish to destroy it makes for a
somewhat interesting twist, especially
for fans of the series. Otherwise, this
can bore you out of liie theater.
(Beechwood. Carmike. Commerce
Drive-In)
GROOVE (R) Writer-director Greg
Harrison’s funky drama is an inside >ook
into one night in the San Francisco
underground rave scene. A Dig hit a!
this year’s Sundance Him Festival.
Showing Tuesday. 8/29. (Georgia
Theatre)
HOLLOW MAN (R) A tedious, poorly-
scripted suspense-thriller from director
Paul Verhoeven (Basic Instinct) about a
"brilliant" group of young scientists at a
dingy, top -secret military lab who have
just unlocked the secret ot "invisibility."
The team’s cocky leader. Sebastian
Caine (a sneering Kevin Bacon), ignores
the risks, defies orders from his boss
(William DeVane) and tests the dan
gerous procedure on himself. For some
unexplained reason, he immediately
becomes a psycho stalker and goes
about raping, molesting and murdering
his colleagues and neighbors. Although
some special effects depicting the grue
some transformation from visible state
to “invisibility" are genuinely impres
sive. the story goes nowhere. Whti
Elizabeth Shue and Josh Brofin. Avoid
this. (Beechwood, Carmike. Commerce
Drive-In)
THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE
(NR) 1962. Director John
Frankenheimer’s fantastic political
thriller follows a group of American sol
diers who are
captured and
brainwashed into
becoming gov
ernment agents.
Based on the
novel by Richard
Condon. Starring
Frank Sinatra.
Laurence Harvey.
Janet Leigh,
Angela lansbury
and Henry Silva.
Showing Monday.
8/28. (Tate)
ME. MYSELF &
IRENE (R) Jim
Carrey suffers an extremely weird split
personality disorder in this disap
pointing ‘gross-out’ comedy from the
Farreily Brothers. He plays a nice-guy
cop living in Rhode Island in a town
where everybody constantly Walks all
over him. One day. he totally loses it
and becomes “Hank." a completely
unlikable, overly aggressive. Sexist
menace. With Ren6e Zellweger (Jerry
Maguird). (Mall)
MICROCOSMOS (G) 1996. A bril-
liantly-made documentary exploring the
weird world of insects. Shot with special
cameras and sound recording devices.
Directed, written and photographed by
French filmmakers Claude Nuridsany
and Marie Perennou Narrated in
English by Kristen Scott Thomas.
Showing Thursday. 8/24. (Athens
Clarke-Library)
NUTTY PROFESSOR II: THE
KLUMPS (PG-13) In a follow-up lo his
breakthrough performance in the 1996
hit The Nutty Professor. Eddie Murphy
re-proves his comic capabilities and
delivers an uncharacteristically sensitive
take on real family characters.
Unfortunately, the storylines lead
nowhere and the script goes for the
vulgar rather the charming. With Janet
Jackson. (Beechwood. Carmike,
Commerce Drive-In)
THE ORIGINAL KINGS OF
COMEDY (R) Director Spike Lee’s rau
cous concert documentary heights
some of the sharpest, raunchiest and
funniest commentary and cultural criti
cism coming out of the African-
American comedy scene. Shot during a
show in a packed arena in Charlotte.
NC. the film captures the on-stage and
backstage action during the phenome
nally successful ‘Kings Of Comedy"
tour last winter. Comedians Steve
Harvey (who acts as the show's emcee),
D.L. Hughley. Cedric The Entertainer,
and Bemie “Somumabitch" Mac crack
on everything from contemporary hip
hop culture, the use and misuse of pro
fanity, typically "black" family misad
ventures. the battle of the sexes and
class warfare. Much of this is inspired
by (or. in Hughley's case, borrowed
directly from) Richard PryorS and Eddie
Murphy’s concert films. Spike Lee’s
camera shots pay as much attention lo
the audience's facial expressions and
reactions as they do to he perto.mers.
Poignant, highly entertaining, and Ml of
brilliantly executed cuss words.
(Carmike)
THE PATRIOT (R) At times moving
and complicated, the film assumes its
audience has already brushed up
heavily on its Colonial history and
bounces from one scenario to another
without thoroughly setting up any of
them. Mel Gibson as a farmer who
resists the call to arms propels the film,
but some scenes are so poorly written
it’s hard not to laugh. Aussie actor Heath
Ledger stands out as the rebellious
eldest son determined to fight for the
cause. Historians may laugh; popcorn-
munching moviegoers may enjoy. Ends
Thursday. (Beechwood)
THE REPLACEMENTS (PG-13) This
big, dumb sports comedy takes a blurry
look at pro football as it follows a gang
or “never-been" misfits on their way to
gridiron glory during a player’s strike.
The result is little more than a clumsy
pile ot macho nonsense... but that’s all
it aims for. Jack Warden and Gene
Hackman have fun with their roles as
crusty football sergeants. Keanu Reeves
looks and acts as dim as ever. Hell, any
flick with buxom pom-pom girls, sumo
wrestlers, half-inebriated chain-smoking
place kickers and John Madden can’t be
a total washout. There’s nothing sur
prising or inventive about The
Heplacements. but it's amusing and easy
to watch—which is more than can be
said for the rest of the crud in the multi
plexes at the moment. With Orlando
Jones, Rhys Ifans and Brooke Langton.
Directed by Howard Deutch (Pretty In
Pink, Grumpier Old Men). (Beechwood,
Carmike)
ROAD TRIP (R) Sure: this is a big,
dumb, derivative college romp filled
with obligatory nudity and hit-or-miss
jokes, but it’s worth a look-see if only
for the inspired performance from
gangly, nerdy newcomer DJ Qualls as
the gleefully exploited, likable geek who
learns the ropes of life while on a ridicu
lous cross-country road trip. With
Breckin Meyer. Seann William Scott.
Paulo Costanzo. and Canadian come
dian Tom Green. Partially filmed on the
UGA campus and around Athens.
Directed and co-written by Todd
Phillips, who'd be better off making
more Pepsi ads with Tom Green than
pressing on with big screen work.
Showing Friday. 8/25-Sunday, 8/27.
(Tate)
SCARY MOVIE (R) Directing from a
weird script written by Shawn Wayans.
Marlon Wayans and others. Keenen
Ivory Wayans has assembled one ot the
most over-the-top disgusting comedies
of the year. This movie skewers scenes
from recent slasher flicks and makes
satirical attacks on some of the catch-
phrases and cliches produced recently
by American cinema. Most of the
comedy is raucous, nasty and hit-or-
miss. but the vile, ‘gross-out humor"
surpasses that of American Pie. Thered
Something About Mary and the recent
Me. Myself & Irene. (Carmike. Georgia
Theatre)
SPACE COWBOYS (PG-13) After over
30 years away from duty, four veteran
astronauts (Clint Eastwood. Donald
Sutherland. Tommy Lee Jones and
James Gamer) accept a dangerous
assignment to return to ^pace one last
time on a secret mission involving a
Russian "satellite"-gone-haywire. The
story unfolds in two parts: the first few
acts introduce the four guys and all of
their old rivalries, grudges and love
interests; the latter half involves a mys
terious government scheme. Expect
plenty of running jokes involving sexu
ally-charged Zingers and one-liners,
some decent special effects and a very
MOVIE LISTINGS
Theater schedules often change after our deadline. Pltase call ahead.
ACC LIBRARY (613-3650)
Microcosmos (NR) 7:00 (Th. 8/24)
BEECHWOOD (546-1011)
The Art Of War (R) 2:15, 4:45. 7:15, 9:45 (opens F.
8/25)
Autumn In New York (PG-13) 2:00, 4:15, 7:00, 9:15
Bless The Child (R) 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:35
Bring It On (PG-13) 2:05, 4:25, 7:05, 9:25 (opens F.
8/25)
The CeU (R) 2:10, 4:35, 7:05, 9:30
Coyote Ugly (PG-13) 3:20, 5:20. 7:35, 9:50 (addl time
F. 8/25-Su. 8/27:1:20)
Disney's The Kid (PG) 3:30, 5:40 (ends Th. 8/24)
Godzilla 2000 (PG) 2:05. 4:25. 7:05, 9:25 (new times F.
8/25: 2:30, 4:50)
Hollow Man (R) 2:15, 4:45, 7:20, 9:55 (new times F.
8/25: 7:20, 9:55)
The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (PG-13) 3:00,
5:15, 7:30, 9:45 (addl time F. 8/25-Su. 8/27:12:45
p.m.)
The Patriot (R) 8:00 (ends Th. 8/24)
The Replacements (PG-13) 4:20, 7:25, 9:50 (addl time
F. 8/25-Su. 8/27:1:50 p.m.)
Space Cowboys (PG-13) 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 (addl time F.
8/25-Su. 8/27: 1:40 p.m.)
What Lies Beneath (PG-13) 4:10, 7:00, 9:35 (addl time
F. 8/25-Su. 8/27: 1:30 p.m.)
CARMIKE 12 (354-0016)
Autumn In New York (PG-13) 2:15, 4:35, 7:10, 9:25
(new times F. 8/25: No 9:25 showing)
Bless The Child (R) 2:30, 4:55. 7:15, 9:35 (new time F.
8/25: 9:40)
Bring It On (PG-13) 1:35, 4:00, 7:05. 9:20 (opens F.
8/25)
The CeU (R) 1:45, 4:20, 7:20, 9:40
Coyote Ugly (PG-13) 2:20, 4:40, 7:30, 9:45
The Crew (PG-13) 2:30, 4:45, 7:15, 9:15 (opens F.
8/25)
Godzffta 2000 (PG) 2.-05. 4:25. 7:25, 9:40 (new times F.
8/25: No 9:40 showing)
HoUow Man (R) 1:50. 4:35, 7:00. 9:30
The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (PG-13) 2:10,
4:30, 7:00, 9:30
The Original Kings Of Comedy (R) 1:30, 4:15, 7:05,
9:35
The Replacements (PG-13) 2:00, 4:30, 7:00. 9:30
Scary Movie (R) 4:45, 9:15 (new time F. 8/25: 9:25)
Space Cowboys (PG-13) 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:30
What Lies Beneath (PG-13) 130, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45
X-Men (PG-13) 2:30, 7:00 (ends Th. 8/24)
COAAMERCE DRIVE-IN (335-2486)
All shows begin at dusk. Monday through Sunday
The Nutty Professor: The Klumps (PG-13) Screen 1
HoUow Man (R) Screen 2
Godzilla 2000 (PG) Screen 3
FUCKER THEATRE (546-0039)
Film Before Film (NR) 8:30 (F. 8/25 & Sa. 8/26)
“Flicker Local” (NR) 8:30 (M. 8/28 & Tu. 8/29)
GEORGIA SQUARE MALL In (543-1632)
Big Momma's House (PG-13) 5:40, 7:55 (12:25, 2:55
Sa. & Su.)
Boys And Girls (PG-13) 5:45.8:05 (12:30, 2:40 Sa. &
Su.)
Center Stage (PG-12) 535. 8:00 (12:20, 2:45 Sa. & Su.)
Me, r.yself & Irene (R) 530, 8:10 (12:15, 2:50 Sa. &
Su.)
GEORGIA THEATRE (549-9918)
Scary Movie (R) 7:00,10:00 (M. 8/28)
Groove (R) 7:00, 10:00 (Tu. 8/29)
TATE CENTER '542-8646)
Thelma t Louise (R) 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 (Th. 8/24)
Road Trip (R) 3:00. 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 (F. 8/25, Sa. 8/26.
Su. 8/27)
Army Of Darkness (R) Midnight (F. 6/25. Sa. 8/26)
The Manchurian Candidate (NR) 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 (M.
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