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ADORATION (R) For an assign
ment, high school student Simon
(Devon Bostick) weaves the story
ot his parents (Noam Jenkins and
Rachel Blanchard), both killed in a car
accident, with a news story about a
terrorist. Controversy arrives when his
fact-meets-tiction tale goes viral.
ALIENS IN THE ATTIC (PG) A fam-
ily moves to Maine and discovers
the top tloor.ot their new home has
been invaded by aliens. The cast is
all over the place. First, there’s High
School Musical alum Ashley Tisdale;
then you’ve got “SNL" vets Kevin
Nealon and Tim Meadows. Director
John Schultz (The Honeymooners)
won some awards for his 1996 debut,
Bandwagon. I honestly can’t decide
whether I’m looking forward to this or
dreading it more than I did G-Force.
ANGELS & DEMONS (PG-13)
Angels & Demons, the Da Vinci Code
predecessor turned cinematic sequel,
offers the same lukewarm thrills as the
2006 blockbuster. Symbologist Robert
Langdon (Tom Hanks with a better
hairdo) is tasked by the Vatican with
solving a mystery involving a dead
pope, four kidnapped cardinals and the
Illuminati, a legendary cabal suppos
edly wiped out by the Catholic church
centuries ago. Apparently, Langdon’s
brainy brand of non-action reads better
than it watches.
AWAY WE GO (R) Burt and Verona
(John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph),
a couple of self-described “fuck-ups,"
are searching for a place to raise their
yet-to-be-born child after Burt’s selfish
parents (Catherine O’Hara and Athens-
born Jeff Daniels) announce their
plan to move to Belgium. Away We
Go, written by novelists Dave Eggers
(A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering
Genius) and his wife. Vendela Vida
(co-founder and co-editor of The
Believe/), reads like a quirky, humor
ous National Book Award finalist.
COLD SOULS (PG-13) How Charlie
Kaufman-esque! Paul Giamatti plays
an actor named Paul Giamatti. who
pays to have his soul disembodied.
Unfortunately, Paul is a victim of soul
trafficking and must travel to Russia to
retrieve it from a soap opera actress.
Writer-director Sophie Barthes's feature
debut was nominated for Sundance's
Grand Jury Prize. With Emily Watson,
David Strathairn and Lauren Ambrose
(‘Six Feet Under’).
THE COLLECTOR (R) Certain horror
fans might be excited about the direc
torial debut of Marcus Dunstan, one
half of the writing duo behind the Feast
flicks and Saw IV, Vand the upcoming
VI. When a desperate ex-con plots a
beist of his new employer's country
home, he doesn’t plan on a second
criminal who has rigged the house with
deadly traps £ la Jigsaw. Connections
to Saw are fitting as the movie is
reportedly an aborted prequel to the
horror juggernaut.
DCI 2009: BIG, LOUD, & LOUD
6 (NR) Join Fathom and Drum Corp
International for this year's World
Championship Quarterfinals, a live
presentation of the very best marching
music.
EAST OF EDEN (PG) 1955. Now
playing is James Dean's first feature,
Elia Kazan's adaptation of the John
Steinbeck classic. Dean was nominated
for an Academy Award for his portrayal
of the tortured Caleb "Cal’ Trask, who
is always competing with his brother
Aron (Richard Davalos) for the love
and approval of their father (Raymond
Massey). As the Trask boys’ morally
destitute mother, Jo Van Fleet won a
Best Supporting Actress Oscar.
FOOD, INC. (PG) Fast Food Nations
Eric Schlosser and Michael Pollan,
author of The Omnivore)> Dilemma,
peek inside the pantry of America’s
corporate kitchen, analyzing the effects
of a corporate-controlled food industry
on the country's farmers and the health
of its citizens.
FUNNY PEOPLE (R) See Movie Pick.
G.l. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA
(PG-13) I don’t care what anyone
says; I’m excited for the live-action
G.l. Joe movie I've been waiting my
entire life to see. The Global Integrated
Joint Operating Entity (G.l. JOE)—an
elite strike force led by General Hawk
(Dennis Quaid)—must stop the evil
terrorist organization known as Cobra.
Duke (Channing Tatum), Scarlett
(Rachel Nichols) and fan-favorite
Snake Eyes (Ray Park) take on Destro
(Christopher Eccleston), the Baroness
(Sienna Mill#), Zartan (Arnold Vosloo)
and Cobra Commander (Joseph
Gordon-Levitt) in the fight of my life.
G-FORCE (PG) G-Force is being
touted as uber-producer Jerry
Bruckheimer’s first 3-D and family film.
The heroes may be furry, well-animated
guinea pigs voiced by Sam Rockwell,
Penelope Cruz, Tracy Morgan and
Nicolas Cage, but the loud, busy
action movie definitely hails from
Bruckheimer’s gated Hollywood neigh
borhood. It’s as good—or as bad—as
any old Bruckheimer production.
THE HANGOVER (R) The summers
most relentlessly funny comedy may
have arrived. When three buddies—
married schoolteacher Phil (Bradley
Cooper), emasculated dentist Stu
(Ed Helms) and strange Alan (Zack
Galifianakis)—take their pal, Doug
(Justin Bartha), to Las Vegas for his
bachelor party, all hell breaks loose.
Too bad none of these guys can
remember one moment of it. Peppered
with familiar funny faces, The Hangover
is a perfect comedic convergence that's
funnier than it deserves to be.
HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-
BLOOD PRINCE (PG) In his sixth
year at Hogwarts, young wizard Harry
Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) and his pals,
Ron and Hermione (Rupert Grint and
Emma Watson), must contend with
Death Eaters, a puffed-up new Potions
prof and love*potions. In his second
Fiotter film, director David Yates gets
what makes the books so special and
translates that quality to the big screen
unlike any of his predecessors; five
time screenwriter Steve Kloves has
perfected extracting only the essentials
from Rowling’s doorstops.
ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE
DINOSAURS (PG) Don’t expect any
surprises in the third installment of the
mammoth animated franchise that isn’t
Shrek or produced by Pixar. Ice Age:
DotD is just for the kiddies. If you’ve
got to see it, be sure to pay a little extra
for the 3D version. It’s worth it.
JULIE & JULIA (PG-13) A secretary
(Amy Adams) blogs about trr year
long attempt to cook every single
recipe from legendary chef Julia Child’s
(Meryl Streep) cookbook. You might
as well go ahead and give Streep her
16th Academy Award nomination now.
Based on the book by Julia Powell and
Julia Child’s My Life in France. With
Jane Lynch, Stanley Tucci and Mary
Lynn Rajskub (yeah, more Chloe!).
LAND OF THE LOST (PG-13) Big
screen, bigger budget updates of the
cult universes conceived by brothers
Sid and Marty Kroftt (“H.R. PufnstuP)
are best left as cheesy, campy and
bizarre as the grown-up fans, all
hopped up on nostalgia, remember
them.
METROPOLITAN OPERA: THE
MAGIC FLUTE (NR) 2006. Dancing
bears and giant birds accompany the
cast of this presentation of Mozart’s
delighting opera. Performed in English
and directed by Tony Award winner
Julie Taymor, The Magic Flute will
delight all ages of opera fans.
MOON (R) Afoon constantly enter
tains; it’s a little scary, a little funny,
and a little thoughtful. An obvious
fan of 70s science fiction, Jones’ film
acknowledges its forebears without
strictly following any of their narrative
paths; sometimes, those referents are
cunningly used for narrative sleight-
of-hand. The robotic assistant, GERTY,
smoothly voiced by Kevin Spacey,
leads one to jump to HAL-like conclu
sions. And the effects are spectacular,
appearing more tangible than digital.
The out-of-this-world film orbits in
the good company of cult faves, Silent
Running or Dark Star.
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: BATTLE
OF THE SMITHSONIAN (PG)
Everything about NatM.BotS improves
on the lifeless original, especially the
thankful lack of monkey antics of which
there are a mere toned down few.
ORPHAN (R) Orphan is an above-
average horror flick in the children-
who-kill subgenre. The currently,
amusingly named parenting duo, John
and Kate (Peter Sarsgaard and Vera
Farmiga), wish to adopt. After a single
visit to an orphanage, John and Kate
decide to take home Esther (Isabelle
Fuhrman), a 19th-century Russian
orphan with ribbons tied around her
neck and wrists. Suddenly, Kate begins
to wonder, “What’s Esther’s deal?" The
revelation in Orphan actually redeems
the movie, turning this imitative flick
into something half-way original.
A PERFECT GETAWAY (R) In The
Perfect Getaway, two vacationing
couples (Milla Jovovich and Steve
Zahn; Timothy Olyphant and Kiele
Sanchez) discover some psychopath
is stalking and killing tourists visiting
the Hawaiian Islands. In thanks for
Riddick's one superb adventure, I’m
going to be nice and hold any snarky
comparisons to Turistas for the dope.
PERSEPOLIS (PG-13) 2007. Marjane
Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud’s film
recounts recent Iranian history through
the limited but expanding scope of a
young Iranian girl. Persepolis depicts
Iran with honest, sad resignation at
what has transpired in a once proud
nation.
THE PROPOSAL (PG-13) I was
worn out by the trailer for this Sandra
Bullock-Ryan Reynolds romantic
comedy way back in April. An unlikable
career woman, Margaret Tate (Bullock),
is about to be deported to her native
Canada. Her quick fix requires her
put-upon assistant, Andrew (Reynolds,
whom I can't help but like), to marry
her. Naturally, a trip to meet his fam
ily—Mary Steenburgen, “Coach" Craig
T. Nelson and Betty White as the loopy
grandma—in Alaska is the next step.
RUOO Y CURSI (R) Gael Garcia
Bernal and Diego Luna costar in this
film from Mexican director Carlos
Cuardn about two brothers seeking to
escape their small town world for soc
cer stardom.
SHERLOCK HOLMES FACES
DEATH (NR) 1943. Basil Rathbone’s
sixth outing as the famed detective will
be screening at the ACC Library with
audio narration for visually impaired
viewers. Presented by the Special
Needs Library, Sherlock Holmes Faces
Death iakes place during World War
MOVIE LISTINGS
Theater schedules often change after our deadline. Please call ahead.
ACC LIBRARY (706-613-3650)
Persepolis (PG-13) 7:00 (Th. 8/6)
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (NR ) 2:00 (Th. 8/6)
BEECHWOOD (706-546-1011)
Due to production deadlines, Beechwood movie times are
only accurate through Aug. 6. Visit www.nagpole.com for
updated times.
Aliens in the Attic (PG) 12:20, 2:50, 5:10, 7:25, 9:30
The Collector (R) 12:50, 3:05, 5:20, 7:35, 9:40
DCI 2009: Big, Loud, & Loud 6 (NR) 6:30 (Th. 8/6)
Funny People (R) 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:05
G-Force (PG) 1:00, 3:10, 5:30, 8:00
G-Force (3D) (PG) 12:00, 2:20, 4:50, 7:15, 9:30
The Hangover (R) 4:15, 9:35 (no 9:35 show W. 8/5)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (PG) 12 30,
3:45. 7:00, 10:15
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (PG) 1:30, 7:10 (no
7:10 show W. 8/5)
Metropolitan Opera: The Magic Flute (NR) 7:00 (W. 8/5)
Orphan (R) 1:05, 4:05, 7:05. 9:50
The Proposal (PG-13) 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 9:55
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (PG-13) 12:15,
3:30, 6:45, 10:00
Ugly Truth (R) 12:05, 2:30, 4:55, 7:20, 9:45
CARMIKE 12 (706-354-0016)
Due to production deadlines, Carmike 12 movie times are
only accurate through Aug. 6. Visit www.Flagpole.com for
updated times.
Aliens in the Attic (PG) 12:00, 2:30, 4:45, 7:00. 9:15
The Collector (R) 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:10
Tunny People (R) 1:00, 4:05, 7:10, 10:15
G-Force (3D) (PG) 12:20, 1:15, 2:35, 3:30, 4:50,
5:45, 7:05, 8:00, 9:20, 10:15
The Hangover (R) 12:40, 3:05, 5:30, 7:50, 10:15
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (PG) 12:30,
1:30, 3:45, 4:45, 7:00, 8:00, 10:15
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (3D) (PG) 12:40,
2:50, 5:00
Orphan (R) 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00
The Proposal (PG-13) 7:10, 9:30
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (PG-13) 12:30,
3:45, 7:00, 10:15
The Ugly Truth (R) 12:25, 2:40, 4:55, 7:10, 9:25
CINt (706-353-3343)
Away We Go (R) 5:15, 9:30 (new times F. 8/7: 5:00,
9:55) (no 9:55 show 5u. 8/9)
East of Eden (PG) 5:00, 7:30 (no 5:00 show W. 8/5 or
Th. 8/6)(ends Th. 8/6)
Moon (R) 9:45 (ends Th. 8/6)
Rudo y Cursi (R) 5:15, 9:45 (starts F. 8/7) (no show
Su. 8/9)
Summer Hours (NR) 7:15 (new times F. 8/7: 7:30)
(add'l time Sa. 8/8-Su. 8/9: 3:00)
West Side Story (NR) 7:00 (add'l times Sa. 8/8-Su.
8/9: 2:00) (starts F. 8/7)
GEORGIA SQUARE 5 (706-548-3426)
Due to production deadlines. Georgia Square Five movie
times aje only accurate through Aug. 6. Visit www.Flagpole.
com for updated times.
Angels & Demons (PG-13) 4:00, 9:55
Land of the Lost (PG-13) 12:40, 7:35
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
(PG) 12:35, 3:00, 5:25, 7:50, 10:15
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (R) 12:50, 4:05, 7:20,
10:05
Terminator Salvation (PG-13) 12:55, 4:10, 7:25,
10:00
Year One (PG-13) 12:45, 3:00, 5:15, 7:30, 10:10
You’ve been very naughty boys.
II, when several murders at a conva
lescent home lead Dr. Watson (Nigel
Bruce) to call on the services of the
master detective.
SHORTS (PG) The discovery of a
wish-granting, multi-hued rock causes
chaos in suburban Black Falls when
jealous kids and adults scheme and
fight to possess it. With Jimmy Bennett
(Young Kirk in Star Trek), Kat Dennings
(Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist),
Leslie Mann. James Spader, Jon Cryer
and William H. Macy.
SUMMER HOURS (NR) The death
of their mother strains the bonds of
three siblings—two brothers (Charles
Berling and J6r6mie Renier) and a
sister (a distractingly blonde Juliette
Binoche)—as they divvy up not only
her prized possessions but also their
own memories An official selection
of the Toronto_New York and AFI Film
Festivals, Summer Hours didn't snag
any prizes, but it did pick up some
good notices.
THE TAKING OF PELHAM 1 2 3
(R) How many times can John Godey’s
novel be made into a movie? Walter
Matthau and Robert Shaw played
cop.'i and robbers in a 1974 ver
sion, and Edward James Olmos a'nd
Vincent D’Onofrio took over in a 1998
TV movie. Now megastars Denzel
Washington and John Travolta hop on
this express thriller about a hijacked
subway train. Adapted by Oscar-winner
Brian Helgeland (L.A. Confidential
and Mystic Rivet) and directed by
Tony Scott, who has teamed with
Washington for the fourth time.
TERMINATOR SALVATION (PG-13)
The ultra-grim fourth installment of the
time-bending franchise makes minor
improvements on the frivolous third
film. Finally, we get to witness the epic
battles between man and machine. The
long-awaited battles between human
ity and the endoskeleton army grow
tedious in chunks larger than T2s
tantalizing bits.
TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF
THE FALLEN (PG-13) The millions
trekking to the theater to witness over
two hours of robotic mayhem are
going to get their money’s worth and
their socks rocked by Transformers:
Revenge of the Fallen. The only people
who won’t like it probably didn’t really
want to gorge on a gigantic robot civil
war anyway.
THE UGLY TRUTH (R)Why does
anyone care whether or not an unap
pealing neurotic beauty (Katherine
Heigl) and a charming, Neanderthalish
brute (Gerard Butler) fall in love? A
dirty version of Cyrano de Bergerac
where Cyrano falls in love with Roxane
while helping her woo Christian, The
Ugly Truth cashes in on the naughty
comedy trend with some f-bombs and
masturbation gags yet keeps censor
ing itself so as not to actually offend
the old people and prudes for whom
Judd Apatow is akin to Lenny Bruce or
Larry Flynt.
WEST SIDE STORY (NR) 1961
One of the greatest musicals of all
time. Winner of 10 Academy Awards,
including Best Picture, Best Director
(Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins),
Best Supporting Actor (George
Chakiris) and Best Supporting Actress
(Rita Moreno).
YEAR ONE (PG-13) A couple of
lazy hunters. Zed (Jack Black) and
Oh (Michael Cera), are banished and
embark on an epic adventure that
brings them into contact with numer
ous figures, ancient and biblical..
Uber-producer Judd Apatow produces
this comedy written and directed by
Harold Ramis. Apatow and Ramis had ■
to personally appeal to the MPAA for
the PG-13 rating. With David Cross
and Paul Rudd as Cain and Abel and
Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Superbad)
as Isaac.
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