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19.000 B.C. (PG-13) See Movie Pick
tO.000B. C. follows a young mammoth
huntef. D Leh (Steven Strait from last
tail's default tot. The Covenant). tracking
a hostile civilization through uncharted
territory to save hts tote and his
girlfriend Director Roland Emmerich,
who has done sci-fi {Independence
Day), and has politicized quasi-sct-fi
(The Day Alter Tomorrow, and done
American history (The Patriot) l guess
prehistory is as good a new target as
any (Beechwood. Car mike)
27 DRESSES .PG-13) If only the
romantic comedy cliches here were
more likable or dy namic, this Mick,
storing Katherine Heigl as an eternal
bridesmaid w love with her boss
(Eduard Bums) who is etv^ged to her
selfish lithe sister (Malin Ackeiman).
might have teen more than cute.
(Georgia Square 5)
ALVIN AMD THE ONPMUNKS(PG)
My nostalgic love tor the Chipmunks
lowered my expectations tor the their
live-achon; CSt debut, which was a
good thing. (George Square 5)
ATONEMENT (R) 2007 tor MzEwan s
2C02 novel ot the fictions we create to
hurt to heat and to survive, arrives on
the tug screen with the fanfare expected
of a splashy literary atfapfahon. The
lives ot the fclbs girts—older sister
Cecilia (Ke«a Kmghtiey) and 13-year-
old Briony (Saorrse Ronan)—are
changed forever by the spiteful events
of an interchangeable summer day in
tne English countryside. A false accu
sation sends her sister s lower-class
lover. Robbie Turner (James McAvoy).
first to prison, then to France, to tight
the Nazis. Pride and Prejudice director
Joe Wright again displays a talent that
is surprisingly tolly developed He
can claim the year $ most technically
impressive teat a massively staged
Dunkirk unverled in one ambitious hve-
and-a-halt-rmnute single shot Shows
Friday, 3/t4~Tuesdav. 3/18 (Cure)
TNE BANK JOB (R) See Movie
Pick The Bat* Job dramatizes one of
Bntons biggest crimes A group of
unseasoned criminals are tucked into
robbmg safety deposit boxes, instead
they re actually stealing naughty pic
tures of a Royal princess that will thrust
the motley crew into the rmddte of a
scandal encompassing the criminal
underworld and the Royal Family
(Beechwood. Carmike)
IE KWO REWIND (PG-13) I want to
swede, thats what Jack Blacks Jerry
end Mos Def's Mike call the process
during which they ’charmingly' and
ineptly reshoot popular movies using
only themselves, thee friends and
their own no bucket ingenuity &
Kind Remind may be creative, but fs
also cloying and presumptive Ends
Thursday (Beechwood)
CHARLIE BARTLETT (R) Unable
to tit in at tos new togh school, nch
Charlie Bartlett iAnton Yelchm)
becomes the res.dert therapist,
listening and doling out advice and
prescriptions to his emotionally needy,
hormonally unstable teenage clientele.
The talented, hip cast includes Robert
Downey Jr as tne school principal and
Hope Davis as Charlie^ mom Ends
Thursday (Car mike)
CLOVERFttLD (PG-13) More experi
ence than movie. Cloverheld immerses
you m a fake attack on New York City
It's a lean, mean monster movie. Shot
on handheld digital cameras, the entire
him sustains the illusion that every
thing is happening right then and there
to the small band of 20-somethings.
Starts Friday (Georgia Square 5)
COLLEGE ROAD TRIP (G) Martin
Lawrence returns to the big screen tor
tne second time in a month. Lawrence
is Chief James Porter, the overprotec-
twe policeman father who decides to
accompany—and mortify—tos daugh
ter. high school senior Rachel (Raveo-
Symone). on a cross-country tup to
pick a college. (Beechwood. Car mike)
TNE DIVING BELL AND THE
BUTTERFLY (PG-13) Director
Julian Schnabei screenwriter Ronald
Ftowood. and cinematography
superstar Janusz Kaminski have made
two hours trapped in someone etses
paralyzed body heartbreakmgfy pain
less. Most of Diving Sell 6 narrated
from the perspective of Jean-Dominique
Baufcy. the editor of tile who wrote tos
memoir by blinking his left eye. the only
bcdy part left unparalyzed by a stroke
Schnabel employs stylistic Nourishes to
transcend the pedestrian sentimentalify
associated with inspirational true stones
about physically challenged protago
nists. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
was the best foreign language film of
2007 Ends Thursday, 3/13 (Cine)
DOOMSDAY (R) A virus has deci
mated the population of Europe, years
fater. a team ol specialists infiltrate
the latest hot zone, but their dream to
manufacture a cure quickly toms into a
nightmare I loved writer-director Neil
Marshall's fast film, the underrated,
over-frightening Descent, but his new
movie looks very similar to the 28 Days
Later, and Resident Evil franchises.
Despite that musty whitt of familiar hor-
ror/sci-ti themes. I'm still pumped tor
any new product from Marshall Opens
Friday (Beechwood. Carmike)
ENCHANTED (PG) Disney s
Enchanted is a sometimes clever, other
times irritating mix ot live-action and
animation A lolfypop of a movie, this
a«y fairy-tale is set in contemporary
New York. Although it has the makings
of a sugarcoated hit. and Amy Adams
is utterly adorable, you may feel your
sweet tooth begin to ache (Cotter) .
(Georgia Square 3)
FOOL'S GOLD (PG-13) Rod's Bold
is as lazy and dumb as its cartoonish
main character, treasure salvager Finn
(Matthew McCcnaughey) Kate Hudson
does what little she can to tone down
Finn's ex-wile Tess shrill unlikabmfy.
buf the rest of the cast are shackled by
unnecessary accents. A dud in every
way (Beechwood) Enos Thursdav
(Carmike)
GRACE IS GONE (PG t3) Writer-
director James C Stresses debut won
w»de acclaim, and a huge distribution
deal from the Weinsteins, at Sundance
However, this depressing little film
about the Iraq war has little chance ot
box office success even with producer-
star John Cusack, who portrays Stanley
Philipps, a father who takes ms two
daughters on a road trip in the hopes
ot discovering a kinder gentler way to
tell them mom isn't coming back from
Iraq With Alessandro Nivofa. Shows
Tuesday. 3; 18 (Tate)
HORTON HEARS A WHO) (Gl Dr
Seusss popular childrens book gets
CGf-ed by the creators ot ItHflR
An eicphait, Horton (Jim Caney),
begins conversing with a speck of
dust that houses the tiny civilization
ot the Whos Soon Hoiton must bathe
the ludgmenfal Animal Kingdom if he
plans to protect the Whos from danger
Dr. Seuss hasn 1 fared well in live
action adaptations, why not give com
puter animation a go 7 Opens Friday
(Beechwood. Carmike)
I AM LEGEND (PG-13) I Am Legend
is another addition to one of my aN-
hme favorite movie sub-genres, the
posl-apccafyptvc survival story Wilt
Smith pfays Robert Nevitte. a mdifary
scientist haunted by tos past and
tos failure to stop a mutating virus.
The story was adapted Mom a 1964
novel by Richard Kfatheson which has
already been turned into two mov
ies. 1 tos adaptation wasrYt bad. but it
wasnl very good, either. (Alex Moore)
(Georgia Square 5)
I’M NOT THERE (R) Oscar-nominated
filmmaker Todd Haynes' high-concept
Bob Dylan biopic casts six different
actors in the role of the American musi
cal bard Tm Not There mas nominated
tor the Golden Lion and won three
other awards. Starts Friday (Georgia
Square 6)
JUMPER (PG-13) The good aspects
ot Jumper are lew and include Hayden
Christensens hotness (or so I've been
told) and a neat idea about teleportation
powers The rest of the movie was pure
two-drmensional Huff (Alex Moore)
Ends Thursday (Beechwood)
JUNO (PG-13) A hank, tunny discus
sion of farrafy teenage sexuality and
parenting without a hint of the cool irony
that typically detaches independent
comedos. Juno lives up to all its hy pe,
most of which has deservedly swuted
around screenwriter Diablo Cody
and actress Ellen Page (Hard Candy)
Junes teenage pregnancy nay be the
least complicated—and tonnrest—ot
all time, yet that youthful optimism is
something of which we could use a
lot more. LW*e so many independent
comedies. Jurv isn 1 too coof to care
Ends Thurscby (Beeenwcxxh
KAMP KATRINA (NR) The
Southern Circuit Tour of Independent
Filmmakers, a sexier of independent
films to be shown at the Georgia
Museum of Art w 2007 and 2008.
returns with its fifth him. Karp Katrina.
directed by Sundance Grand Jury Prize
nominee David Rwtnon and Ashley
Sabm Kamp Kainna is located m ite
Packard of New Orleans Upper 9th
Ward resident Ms Pearl, whose gener
ous attempt to hetp people following
the tragic storm devolved into violence
Redmon will be present to introduce
and discuss tos hint Sponsored by
the Georgia Museum of Ait and the
UGA Parents and Fanviies Association
Shows Wednesday. 3/12 (GMOA)
THE KITE RUNNER PG 13) Never
tei. lovers of Ktoued Hossemrs power
ful novel The Kite Runr'er does cine
matic justice to your beloved book The
Kite Runner follows the book s recipe
to tne letter tossing massive concepts
ol friendship. disloyalty, forgiveness
and. ultimately, redemption Kites soar
through the skies over Kabul; blood
dnps onto the pure, driven snc.v
the beatific smile of young Hassan
(Ahmad Khan Ktannudzada) stun
ningly ditfers Mom the modern Afghan
zombies stumbling through the making
nightmare ot Taliban rule The film is
remarkably well-adapted, doing right
by its source without lesorting to slav
ish devotion Starts Fnday (Georgia
Sgucve 5)
MAO MONEY (PG-13) Diane Keaton.
Queen Latitan and Katie Holmes star
as three women who rob the Federal
Reserve. The leads are game, and
interweaving a heist movie with
themes of female empowerment gone
awry, and the corporate downsizing ot
white upper-middle class America is
intriguing Too bad the direction stinks.
(Highway 17 Theatres) Ends Thursday
(Georgia Squares)
MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR
A DAY (PG-13) London govern
ess Guinevere Pettigrew (Frances
McDormand) fakes a job with lively
American singer and actress Defysia
Latosse (Amy Atoms) Soon Miss
Pettigrew is plunged mto the dtzying
glamour of high society Based on a
popular novel of the 19605 written by
Winifred Watson. (Beechwood, Carmike)
NEVER BACK DOWN (PG-13) Mixed
Martial Arts him Sever ffac* Dvmn t$
the story of Jake Tyler (Sean Fans) the
new kid m town with a troubled past A
recent relocation to Orlando. FL. makes
the former star athlete an outsider In
ar attempt to hold tos own, he learns
Mixed Martai Arts (MMA) horn hts
mentor. Jean Rogua. pfayed by Djimon
Hounsou (Blood Diamond. In America).
Opens Fnday (Beechwood. Carmike)
OSCAR NOMINATED ANIMATED
SHORTS (PC-13) The most under
whelming of the Oscar nominated am-
mated shorts. I Am. the ir\toiru$. supplies
2-D visuals to a taped interview with
John Lenrvxi The most DeauMui of Ihe
longer nemmees. Afy iove. is an impres
sionist pamfrg come to life, buf requires
a PhD m Russian language or literature
My favorite then is ihe actual award win
ner. Peter and the iflat Suzie Templeton
reimagmes Prokofievs classical music
tor uds with a postmodern twist This
chikJiccd classic has found its latest,
greatest farm. Ends Thursday (Cine)
OSCAR NOMINATED LIVE ACTION
SHORTS (PG-13) AJI fcve ot the live
action shorts nominated tor Oscar
could have easily won the award Two
Euro-comedy entries. If Supplente (The
Substitute) and Targht Argentina bubble
with eftorttess effervescence In writer-
Arector Christian E Christiansens At
Sight three beautiful young women
seek one another's comfort through the
tong holiday season on a cancer ward.
As charming, touching and perfect
as the other tout nominees were. Le
Mecart des Pickpockets deserved to wm
the Oscar Writer-director-stor Philippe
PoHef-Yilfardfs enchanting crime
comedy about two Amwitted thieves,
Phihppe and Richard (PoHet-Yilfard and
Richard Moryteve). and the deaf boy
(Lfafleo Razaxjki-Satordi) they adopt
could have been transitioned into a
feature Ends Thursday (Cme)
THE OTHER BGLEYN 6IRL (PG-13)
The Other Baeyn Gift watches like a TY
networks World Premiere Movie Event
yet Showtime s 'The Tudors* easily
out-acts, out-sexes and outclasses this
boring bodice-upper based on Philippa
Gregory's bestseller. The film is devoid
of chemistry, be it between Henry (Erie
Bana) and kfaiy (Scanett Johannsscn)
Henrv ano Anne (Natalie Poctnian).
cv Atarv and Anne A fate rebound
occurs when Anne starts losing her
mind before she loses her head, but
that upsurge cannot wash away the
passionless humdrum that preceded it
(Beechwood. Carmike)
PENELOPE PG) This modem tauy
faie suiters from the over-conceptu
alizahon of all Tim Burton wannabes
Most egregieusfy Penelope facks the
magic that might make ;ts misfit tale ot
a pretty pig-snouted princess (Christina
Ricci) looking for a Ptince Charming
(Atarwranfc James McAvoy) to pay tor
enchanted itonopfasty with the currency
ot love, senvbeiievabte Director Mark
Pafansky s teatu/e debuf. produced by
cosfai Reese Witherspoon is cyni
cally sweet, but Ricci looks too radiant
to sell the extremity ot her suitors
detervestration and fear Ends Thursday
(Beechwood. Carmike)
SEMI-PRO (R) Where Blades ot Glory
was simply an amusing ice skating
tlick. Senu-Pro steals from the annals
ot sports films to be the closest we may
get to a new Slap Shot In Setm-Pro.
the ABA and the NBA are preparing
to merge, and Tropics owner Moon
will stop at nothing to see hts team hit
the big-tune. Semi-Pro may be a rank
amateur when it comes to originality
(Mater League totally got here test)
but a seasoned pro when it comes to
laughs. (Beechwood, Carmike)
THE SHAPE OF WATER (NR) 200G
Narrated by Susan Sarandon, The
Shape ot Water takes the viewer to
Senegal, Israel Brazil aid India to meet
visionary thud-world women abandon
ing their cultures traditional gender
ictes Dr Patricia Richards. Assistant
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