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AQUA TEEN HUNGER FORCE (R) It
you are a fan of the Adult Swim series
about Frylock, Meadwad and Master
Shake, then you will love this movie. If
you've never even heard of Mooninites,
the Danger Cart, or Dr Weird and
his sidekick Kevin, then stay home
The film's creators make no attempt
to explain anything for those who are
jw to the Aqua Teen universe. This
one is strictly for the fans Cameos by
Neil Peart. Chris Kaftan. Tina Fey and
Bruce Campbell, an original song from
Mastodon about the way to behave in
a theater, and the characters say lots of
bad words what more could you want
from your junk food 7 (Margaret Moore)
(Carmike)
APOCALYPTO (R) Me! Gibson,
attempting to jab reievantly at our so
ciety recreates Mayan civilization The
vibrant fever dream viscerally frightens
and awes at first, but becomes one
long foot race landmarked by danger
ous jungle cliches Shows Friday.
4/27-Sunday, 4/29 (Tate)
APOCALYPSE NOW REDUX (R)
1979 Francis Ford Coppola's fourth
and final masterpiece got a fresh coat
of paint and nearly 50 minutes of foot
age for this 2001 director's cut Based
on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.
Apocalypse Now meanders down the
Mekong with Martin Sheen as he seeks
Marlon Brando's crazed Colonel Kurtz.
Look for a young Harrison Ford and
Laurence Fishburne Shows Thursday.
4/26 (Tate),
ARE WE DONE YET? (PG) This se
quel to Are We There YePhas a slightly
more solid construction than the 2005
surprise smash, no thanks to all-at
titude. no-charisma star Ice Cube, who
seriously needs a colonic (dude looks
constipated) Nick Persons (Ice Cube),
his pregnant wife Suzanne (Nia Long),
and their two tweens decide to move to
the country, biting oft more than they
can chew with the fixer-upper from
Hell. (Beechwood. Carmike. Highway
17 Theatres)
BLADES OF GLORY (PG-13) After
being exiled from male figure skating.
Chazz Michael Michaels iWill Ferrell)
and Jimmy MacElroy (Jon Heder)
make history, stunning the skating
world by defying conventions as pairs
partners Another flawless routine from
Will Ferrell is the only reason this
routine sports comedy medals Blades
isn t terribly memorable, but it is hard
not to get into the spirit of competition
when Michaels and MacElroy first
grab each other's crotches on the ice
(Beechwood Carmike. Highway 17
Theatres)
CLIMATES (NR) 2006 A Cannes
Award winner. Climates pursues dowdy
professor Isa (writer-director Nun Bnge
Ceylan) from Istanbul to frostier climes
in search of the younger wife, Bahar
(Ebru Ceylan). who fled his inattentive
selfishness Ends Thursday (Cine)
THE CONDEMNED (R) The WWE's
new movie-making branch releases a
fight-to-the-death Punning Man rip-off
starring Stone Cold Steve Austin If you
like The Marine, this is right up your
alley. Opens Friday (Carmike)
COOL HAND LUKE (NR) 1967 One
thing Stuart Rosenberg's Cool Hand
Luke doesn't have is a “failure to com
municate." Paul Newman in his prime
stars as Lucas “Luke" Jackson, a man
wno cannot follow the rules of ttie rural
prison in which he is incarcerated. With
George Kennedy, and the aiways fan
tastic Strother Martin Shows Monday.
4/30 (Flicker)
DADDY'S LITTLE GIRLS (PG-13)
Tyler Perry's latest sorely misses his
flagship character Madea We could
certainly use some of Madea’s broadly
comic antics to relieve just an ounce
of the tension from the dramatic
struggles of single father Monty (Idris
Elba) to keep his three cute kids out of
the hands of his horrid ex-wife With
Gabnelle Union (Georgia Square 5)
DEADLINE (NR) 2004 With 60 days
left in office. Illinois Governor George
Ryan must decide the fate oi 167
death row inmates Katy Chevigny and
Kirsten Johnscn's death penalty docu
mentary was nominated for an Emmy,
picked up a Grand Jury Prize nomina
tion from the Sundance Film Festival
Part of the ACC Library's iFilms senes
Shows Thursday, 4/26 (ACC Library)
DISTURBIA (PG 13) See Flick
Skinny. Disturbia is far from a grade-A
side of cinematic beef but holding no
high aspirations for itself, this teeny-
bopper flick knocks oft Pear Window
with B-movie gusto Under house
arrest, underage antihero K51e (Shia
LeBeouf) gets so bored he learns that
the loner next-door (David Morse) is
a serial killer Kale deputizes hot new
girl Ashley (Sarah Roemer) and funny.
Asian sidekick Ronny (Aaron Yoo). to
do the dirty work Disfurbia has not a
whit of originality about it, but wmk-
inyly twists a familiar story just enough
to make it fun. (Beechwood. Carmike);
Starts Friday (Highway 17 Theatres)
DREAMGIRLS (PG-13) Glitzy and
glamorous. Dreamgirls, chronicling
the Supremes-like rise of Deena
(Beycnc6 Knowles). Eftie (Oscar winner
Jennifer Hudson), and Lorrell (Amka
Nont Rose), never shies away from its
Broadway roots Dreamgirls has both
the rhythm and the blues (Georgia
Square 5)
EARTHDANCE SHORTS PROGRAM
(NR) The first partnership between Cm6
and the UGA Institute of Ecology is a
special screening of the touring shorts
pmgram from the Oakland Museum of
California's EarthDance environmental
film festival Some of the included films
are Journeys, the award-winning Tree
Robo, and Ballistic Jaw Propulsion
of Trap-Jaw Ants EarthDance festival
director, Zakary Zide, will preside over
a post-film Q&A on Thursday Shows
Thursday, 4/26 and Sunday 4/29
(Cm6)
FmMILY LAW (NR) 2006 Silver
Berlin Bear and Sundance Film Festival
award-winning Argentmejilmmaker
Daniel Burman follows btf2003 feature
ode to fatherhood, Lost Embrace, with
Family Law about Ariel Perelman
(Daniel Hendler), whose newfound
status as husband and father leads him
to feat through his own daddy issues
Winner of three of the four awards for
which it was nominated at ttie Mar del
Plata Film Festival Starts Friday (Cin6)
FRACTURE (R) A mature, twisty mys
tery. Fracture stars Anthony Hopkins
as Ted Crawford, a brilhant old rich
guy who murders his cheating wife and
toys with the system to get away with
it Playing Jerry to Crawford's Tom is
Deputy District Attorney Willy Beachum
(Ryan Gosling), an egotistical asshole
who cares for nothing more than win
ning his 'way to a job at one of L.A/s
most prestigious law firms Though
Hopkins could deliver this kind of per
formance by phone, his eyes contain an
impish light missing from some of his
recent performances, and the swagger
ing. gum-chomping Gosling proves an
amazingly worthy adversary Fracture's
late-game twist, something in which
director Gregory Hoblit (Primal Fear
Fallen) specializes, is a nicely played
trump card that's just the right logical
size for such an intelligent, noirish
thriller (Beechwood. Carmike)
GHOST RIDER (PG-13) Johnny
Blaze (Nicolas Cage) sells his soul
to Mephistopheles (Peter Fonda) and
becomes a flaming, leatner-clad, mo-
Jorcyde-ridmg skeleton supernaturally
powerful enough to punish evil In
spite of Cage's every misstep when
Blaze transforms into the Rider, Ghost
Rider changes into the hokey, B-list
superhero fun if was meant to be
(Georgia Square 5)
GRINDHOUSE (Rj An orgiastic smor
gasbord of hot half-naked women, fly
ing body parts, geysers of blood, and
Kurt Russell Grindhouse pulsates with
the excess and genius of genre fanta
sists. Robert Rodriguez and Quentin
Tarantino RRs Planet Terrorise
McGowen mows down the infected
masses with her machine gun leg) and
QTs Death Proof (a menacing Russell
runs down hotties in a cool muscle
car), and three mind-blowing fake trail
ers deconstruct, reconstruct and re-de-
construct conventions until everything
vou ve seen before looks like nothing
you've ever seen (Beechwood). Ends
Thursday (Carmike)
HAPPY FEET (PG) Mumble the
penguin (voiced by Elijah Wood) takes
an eye-popping breathtaking journey
from dropped egg to societal savior
Happy Feet taps out a fresh rhythm
to which you can dance when it s not
delivering pat lessons on religious
intolerance and environmental destruc
tion (Georgia Square 5)
HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL (PG)
2006 Shy Gabrieilas (Vanessa Anne
Hudgens) karaoke duet with the captain
of the basketball team (Zac Efron) leads
both teens to star in their high school’s
big show Disney's milking this cash
cow in every way possible, including
a summer sequel and High School
Musical The Ice Tour Shows Friday.
4/27 (Oconee County Library)
HOT FUZZ ( R) See Movie Pick
(Beechwood)
IN THE LAND OF WOMEN (PG-13)
The son of Lawrence Kasdan tries really
hard to out -Garden Slate Zach Braff but
ends up with, as Carter Webb (Adam
Brody. “The 0 C.“) would describe
it an “unlovable selt-JMuctive’
dramedy After being WPd. Carter
heads to Michigan to care for his dy
ing grandma (Olympia Dukakis) and
mess with the lives of the Hardwicke
women—cancer-stricken mom Sarah
(a radiant Meg Ryan); sullen teen Lucy
(Kristen Stewart); and precocious Paige
(Makenzie Vega). I really wanted to
like this. Unfortunately, the film's ick
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Slow Burn (R) 9:50 (ends Th. 4/26)
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40 WATT CLUB (706-549-7871)
Oxford American Southern DVD #1 (NR) 7:30 (Tu.
5/1)
ACC LIBRARY (706-bl3-3650)
Deadline (NR) 7:00 (Th. 4/26)
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Are We Done Vet? (PG) 5:25, 7:35
Blades of Glo/y (PG-13) 4:40, 7:10, 9:25
Disturbia (PG-13) 4:35, 7:00, 9:30
Fracture (R) 4:05, 7:05, 9:40
Grindhouse (R) 8:40
Hot Fuzz (R) 4:00, 6:55, 9:35
In the Land of Women (PG-13) 4:25, 7:25, 9:55
The Lives of Others (R) 3:55, 6:50, 9:45
Meet the Robinsons (G) 4:15, 7:00, 9:30
Pathfinder (R) 4:00. 6:20
Perfect Stranger (R) 4:20, 7:15, 9:50
Redline (PG-13) 9:50
Vacancy (R) 5:35, 7:40, 9:55
CARMIKE 12 ( 706-354-0016)
Aqua Teen Hunger Force (R) 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45,
10:00
Are We Done Yet? (PG) 1:00, 3:15, 5:30. 7:45, 10:00
Blades of Glory (PG-13) 1:00, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30, 9:55
Condemned (R) 1:15, 4:05, 7:00, 9:45 (opens F. 4/27)
Disturbia (PG-13) 1:45, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30
Fracture (R) 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:40
Grindhouse (R) 12:45, 4:35, 8:30 (ends Th. 4/26)
In the Land of Women (PG-13) 12:45, 3:05, 5:25,
7:45, 10:00
The Invisible (PG-13) 12:45, 3:05, 5:25, 7:'.5. 10:00
(opens F. 4/27)
Kickin' it Old Skool (PG-13) 1:10, 4:20, 7:15, 9:40
- (opens F. 4/27)
'..'Meet the Robinsons (PG) 12:45, 3:00, 5:20, 7:40,
10:00
Next (PG-13) 12:45, 3:05, 5:25, 7:45, 10:00 (opens
F. 4/27)
Pathfinder (R) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00. 10:00 (ends Th. 4/26)
Perfect Stranger (R) 1:30, 4:15, 7:10, 9:40 (ends Th.
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Redline (PG-13) 12:45, 3:00, 5:15, 7:30 (ends Th.
V26)
CINE (706-353-7377)
Climates (NR) 4:30, 7:15, 9:30 (no 7:15 show on Th.
4/26) (ends Th. 4/26)
Earthdance Shorts Program (NR) 7:15 (Th. 4/26).
1:00 (Su. 4/29)
Family Law (NR) 5:00. 7:15, 9:30 (add'l times Sa.
4/28 8, Su. 4/29: 2:30) (starts F. 4/27)
Little Children (R) 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 (ends Th. 4/26)
Killer of Sheep (NR) 5:15, 7:30, 9:15 (add'l times Sa.
4/28 & Su. 4/29: 3:00) (starts F. 4/27)
Tears of the Black Tiger (NR) midnight (F. 4/27 &
Sa. 4/28)
Who is Bozo Texino? (NR) 7:30 (W. 5/2)
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Are We Done Yet? (PG) 8:15
Blades of Glory (PG) 8:15
Disturbia (PG-13) 8:15 (starts F. 4/27)
TATI CENTER THEATER (706-542-6396)
Apocalypse Now Redux (R) 8:00 (Th. 4/26)
Apocalypto (R) 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 (Fri. 4/27-Su. 4/29)
COMMON GROUND (706-548-6011)
Mr. Freedom (NR) 8:00 (F. 4/27)
FLICKER THEATRE & BAR (706-546-0039)
Cool Hand Luke (NR) 7:00. 9:00 (M. 4/30)
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Daddy's Little Girls (PG-13) 4:15. 7:15. 9:30
Dreamgirls (PG-13) 7:00
Ghost Rider (PG-13) 4:05, 7:05, 9:40
Happy Feet (PG) 7:20
Music & Lyrics (PG-13) 4:00, 9:45
A Night At the Museum (PG) 4:20, 9:55
Norbit (PG-13) 4:10, 7:10, 9:35
HOT CORNER COFFEE (706-995-0622)
Night of the Living Dead (NR) 8:00 (Su. 4/29)
OCONEE COUNTY LIBRARY (706-769-3950)
High School Musical (PG) 6:00 (F. 4/27)
Let me through, it’s okay
m wearing my Members Only jacket
factor, its sickly pallor of infidelity and
contrived, age-inapprooriate relation
ships, is high Land of Women need
only be visited by those jonesing for
their weekly Brody fix. (Beechwood,
Carmike)
THE INVISIBLE (PG-13) Another
holdover from January. The Invisible
the new movie from David Goyer
(Blade Trinity) is a supernatural mur
der mystery where Hick Powell (Justin
Chatwin, War of the Worlds) must
solve his own death from some sort of
limbo Based on the Swedish film. Den
Osynlige Opens Friday (Carmike)
KICKIN'IT OLD SKOOL (PG-13)
This comedy probably sounded like
a good idea before Jamie Kennedy
proved incapable of carrying his own
movie Kennedy plays a breakdancer
who wakes from a coma 20 years later
with dreams of reuniting his old crew
Opens Friday (Carmike)
KILLER OF SHEEP (NR) 1977
Charles Burnett (To Sleep With Anger.
The Glass Shield) reacted to biaxploita-
tion with this raw black-and-white,
independent feature, one of the first
50 films entered into the Library of
Congresss National Film Registry A
series of vignettes about life in South
Centra! Killer of Sheep examines Stan
(Henry Gayle Sanders) as he attempts
to raise his children and love his wife
amidst the bullies and vacant lots of the
wrong side of the tracks This print has
been cleaned, restored and transferred
to 35mm Starts Friday (Cm6i
LITTLE CHILDREN (R) 2006 From In
the Bedroom writer-director Todd Field,
Little Children was hailed by many crit
ics as one of the 2006s best This tale
of infidelity amongst the playgrounds
and swimming pools of a small town
is powerful stuff With Kate Winslet,
Patrick Wilson and Jennifer Connelly
Ends Thursday (Cine)
THE LIVES OF OTHERS (R) 2006
For the life of me. I can t figure out why
Pans Labyrinth a genre-busting, future
classic, could lose the Best Foreign
Fum Oscar to an exceedingly well-
crafted but not exactly groundbreaking
German film The Lives of Others
about surveillance in the communist
East Germany of the 1980s. is at times
horrifying, real, humorous, hopeless,
and ultimately hopeful When Stasi
agent Wiesler (Ulrich Miihe) begins
spying on playwright Georg Dreyman
(Sebastian Koch) and his actress lover.
Wiesler becomes so enthralled with the
two that he threatens his own career—
and life—to keep Dreyman s subver
sive acts a secret from his superiors
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
displays more humanism in his feature
debut than most lilmmakers will in a
career (Beechwood)
MR. FREEDOM NR) 1969 Mr
Freedom (John Abbey, Jacques Tati s
Play Time) is the hero of capitalist
America, employeu by Freedom Inc
to battle communism, defend freedom
with ultraviolence. and go t§te-a-
t&te with the French Anti-Freedom
Expatriate photographer and film
maker William Klein's black comedy
features Donald The Man" Pleasance
and a host of European art house
scenesters This screening, organized
by Autonomous Athens, kicks off the
Mayday 07 weekend Shows Friday,
4/27 (Common Ground)
MEET THE ROBINSONS (G) When
orphan Lewis' newest experiment
blows up in his face, he runs to his
rooftop hideaway whe^e he is whisked
to the future Despite its visual wow
factor (especially the 3-D version).
Robinsons is obnoxiously madcap,
hyperactively zany and quite tedious
(Beechwood, Carmike)
MUSIC & LYRICS (PG-13) Music
and Lyrics had me at Hugh Grant Alex
Fletcher (Grant) has a week to write
a hit song if he wants another shot
at stardom With Drew Barrymore.
(Georgia Square 5)
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