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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. IB FLAGPOLE AUGUST 23, 2000