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screen translation by director Joel
Schumacher and llcyd Webber is
any indication, this Phantom virgin
finds the musical's undying popularity
unjustified. The Phantom of the Opera
is here, but sadly enough, it fails to hit
the high notes. Shows Friday. 3/3 &
Saturday. 3/4 (Tale)
THE PINK PANTHER (PG) Tasked
with finding the Pink Panther diamond
by Chief Inspector Dreyfus (Kevin
Kline). Inspector Clouseau (Steve
Martin) packs his meager sleuth
ing skills into a carry-on to chase
prime suspect and international pop
sensation Xania (Beyonc6 Knowles)
across the Atlantic Martini Clouseau
never reaches Peter Sellers' level of
habitation, but it is the silver-haired
comedian's most playful performance
since Bowfmger No classic, the Pmk
Panther's ninth life ranks as merely its
sixth funniest (Beechwood. Carmike):
Shows Friday. 3/3 & Saturday. 3/4
(Highway 17 Theatres)
RUNNING SCARED R) Glazed with
overstylized ultraviolence. Running
Scared, written and directed by
Wayne Kramer (The Cooler), plays a
lot like Grand Theft Auto The Movie
might When a ‘hot* gun mob tlunkie
Joey Gazelle (Paul Wahcer trying to
out-Funky Bunch Mark Wahiberg)
was supposed to dump is used by a
10-year-old. Joey must go all night
long to find the piece and save h»s
ass This humorless map to the urban
underworld trots out every piece of
scum imaginable to trip up the rush
ing anti-hero Utilizing all sorts of
filters and speeding up/ slowing down
every action. Kramer creates a film
that resembles Domino on downers
Near pornographic in its sex and
violence. Running Scared leaves you
feeling dirty as last fall's A History ot
Violence without offering the cleansing
shower of intelligence Intense just to
be intense, Kramer proves he's a hard
filmmaker, while failing to comprehend
that tension does not equate suspense
or entertainment. The addition of goofy
effects lending a supernatural air (the
Freddy Krueger shadow lurking behind
the surreal short on pedophilia) fails
to mesh with the harsh realism that
dominates the film. Climaxing in bul-
let-riddied black light. Running Scared
looks like trailer trash clad in their
Sunday best(Carmike)
THELMA & LOUISE (R) 1991 Ridley
Scott directed this '90s nonpareil
example of female aggression and true
liberation. Callie Khouri won an Oscar
for her tale of an Arkansas waitress
(Susan Sarandon) and housewife
(Geena Davis) on the run in a '66
T-Bird after shooting a rapist On the
tarn. Thelma and Louise streak toward
Mexico, hoping to outrun the law as
well as the constrictive lives they l§ft
behind Also starring Harvey Keitel,
Michael Madsen and a young stud who
goes by the name of Brad Pitt Shows
Wednesday. 3/1 (Tate)
TRANSAMERICA (R) Bree (Felicity
Huffman. ‘Desperate Housewives') is
a preoperative. ma!e-to-femate trans
sexual who. one operation away horn
finally becoming a woman, learns she
fathered a son years ago Bree and her
incarcerated teenage son Toby (Kevin
Zegers) embark on a cross-country
journey that teaches them both a little
something about life Written and di
rected by Duncan Tucker, TransAmenca
features Fionnula Flanagan. Graham
Greene. Burt Young and Elizabeth Pe/ta
Opens Friday (Beechwood)
ULTRAVIOLET (PG-13) So what
if tms female action film looks like
the stylish bastard cousin of Aeon
Flux. Resident Evil: Apocalypse and
Underworld I've been all about Miiia
Jovovich since Return to the Blue
Lagoon. The story involves an earth
devastated by a vampiric disease and
the civil war that erupts between the
planet* *healthy* and the ‘infected*
denizens. Opens Friday (Beechwood.
Carmike)
UNDERWORLD: EVOLUTION (R)
This sequel to the werewolves, vam
pires. and The Matrix (*0h my!*) hit
might better be subtitled 'Devolution."
but then I would be implying that the
story was ever evolved Starring Kate
Beckinsale and Scott Speed man Starts
Friday (Georgia Square 5)
WALK THE LINE (PG-13) Walk the
Line glides along on the aping skills
of Joaquin Phoenix, who becomes
the Man in Black just as Jamie Foxx
became Ray Charles Its heart is the
romance between Johnny and soulmate
June Carter (Reese Witherspoon)
Despite the dramatic and vocal acrobat
ics of Phoenix and Witherspoon (both
do all their own singing). Walk the
£//?e stumbles in its final acts (Georgia
Square 5). Shows Friday. 3/3-Sunday.
3/5 (Tate)
WHEN A STRANGER CALLS (PG-
13) As a big bad fan of horror, imagine
my surprise at the Empire State
Building heights of terror generated by
this PG-13 remake by the director ot
Tcmh Raider From the audience's con
stant shrieking and my increased heart
rale, this Strangers call communicates
its terrifying message (Carmike.
Highway 17 Theatres), Ends Thursday
(Beechwood)
WINGS OF DESIRE I PG-13) 1987
Wim Wenders award-winning vision
of invisible angels amongst us never
succumbs to its inspirational tempta
tions Angel Damiel (Bruno Ganz)
desires to leave divinity behind after
tailing in love with Marion, a trapeze
artist residing in post-war Berlin Part
of the GMOAs Foreign Film Series,
sponsored by the UGA Parents'
and Families' Association Shows
Wednesday. 3/8 (GMOA)
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