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BAD TEACHER (R) As very bad
teacher Elizabeth Halsey, Cameron
Diaz reminds the moviegoing public
that there was something about Mary,
and she had a lot to do with it Forced
to return to a job she hates at which
she is not very good. Elizabeth treats
her students and coworkers, including
overachiever Amy (Lucy Punch, whom
I love), decile Lynn (Phyllis Smith of
The Office) and laidback gym teacher,
Russell (Jason Segel). with equal
disdain until she sets her sights on
wooing rich, new sub. Scott (Justin
Timberiake). with a boob job she must
rather questionably finance
BRIDESMAIDS
‘s competition calling Bridesmaids
the funniest movie of 2011 may be
as much an insult as a compliment
to itiis hilarious comedy, written
by and starring Kristen Wng Inis
female-driven flick needs to be judged
ana compared to its raunchy hearty
brothers, all raised under the banner ol
the House ot Apalow
CARS 2 G v above-
average children’s cartoon
Unfortunately, an above-average
children's cartoon is way below Pixar's
capabilities Any other animation house
can make a Cats or a Cars 2. Pixar
should leave the kiddie entertainment
to DreamWorks/Sony and concentrate
on singular masterpieces like WALL-E
CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS
(NR) 2010 A lot has been said and
written about legendary filmmaker
Werner Herzog's documenlary, filmed
in France's Chauvet Cave, where the
oldest known pictorial representations
ot mankind can be found Closed fo the
general public. Herzog had to receive
special permission to him inside the
cave
CHOCOLAT (PG-13) 2000 Cines
Summer Classic Movie Series kicks
off with ChocolaP Johnny Depp
stars alongside Juliette Binoche in this
five-lime Academy Award nominee
from director Lasse Hallslrom A
woman (Binoche) and her young
daughter open a chocolate shop in
and the tightly bound morals ot a tiny,
repressed French town
FARMAGEDDON (NR) 2010 This
film documents the unseen war on
family-owned American farms as Ihe
FDA. FBI. etc., invade and seize their
homegrown goods The proceeds from
this benetit screening, held by Athens
Locally Grown, will go to Wholesome
Wave Georgia, and Ihe Farm to
Consumer Legal Defense Fund
FAST FIVE (PG-13) As the plot'
goes Dorn (Vin Diesel). Brian (Paul
Walker) and Dorn's sister/Brian's
squeeze. Mia (Jordana Brewster), are
on the lam alter a daring, non-fatal
prison break In Rio. Ihe trio runs afoul
of super drug lord Reyes (Joaquim
de Almeida) They also have to
oulwit federal bounty hunter Hobbs
!a more gigantic than usual Dwayne
Johnson) Other slull goes on to set
up the Ocean's / 1 on wheels heist that
climaxes the movie.
GREEN LANTERN PG 13) The
movie version of DC s second-
line superhero, a ring equipped
mtergalactic policeman, lacks the
nostalgic baggage checked by the big
two. Supes and Bats Test pilot Hal
Jordan (Ryan Reynolds) is chosen
to join the Green Lantern Corps just
in time to battle Parallax, a world-
devouring baddie who uses the yellow
power of fear to turn Peter Sarsgaard
from a John Carpenter doppelganger
into an evil, bloated alien John
Carpenter.
HARRY POTTER AND THE
DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (PG-
13) The end is finally here Harry, Ron
and Hermione (Daniel Radclifte, Rupert
Grint and Emma Watson, lor the linal
time in the roles they have grown up in)
are after the linal Horcruxes Plus, Ihe
magical torces o< good and Voldemort's
Death Eaters engage in the climactic
battle of Hogswarls Thankfully, the
filmmakers haven't given in to the 3D
craze, it was close with Ihe last film
• HORRIBLE BOSSES (R) Nick
(Jason Bateman) works tor an evil
corporate shark played perfectly by
Kevin Spacey Dale (Charlie Day ol the
best sitcom on TV. “It's Always Sunny
in Philadelphia") is getting seriously
sexually harassed by his seriously
hot dentist boss (Jennifer Anislon).
Kurt (Jason Sudeikis) answers to a
cokehead douchebag that resembles a
balding Colin Farrell (Farrell). With Ihe
help of a murder consultant with a very
blue name (Jamie Foxx). these three
triends decide the solution to their
employment problems is to murder
each other's boss This dark, dirty
comedy does everything right in the
most wrong sort ot way
LARRY CROWNE (PG-13) Tom
Hanks steps back behind the
camera—and stars in—this comedy
about out-of-work Lariv Crowne who
enrolls at his local college, where he
connects a group of outcasts and falls
for Mercedes Tainot (Julia Roberts),
one of his teachers This movie sounds
a lot like NBC's hilarious Community"
Hanks teamed up with My Big Fa!
Greek Wedding phenom Nia Vardalos
on the screenplay.
LIFE. ABOVE ALL PG-13) Alter the
death of her infant daughter, rumors
shatter a family living in a village
near Johannesburg, lorcmg young
Cnanda (Khcinolso Manyaka) to leave
the village on a journey to find her
mother. Shortlisted for the Academy
Award lor Best Foreign Language
Film, Lite, Above All won a Leo lor
Best Screenwriting in a Feature Length
Drama and placed second at the Dubai
International Film Festival
LIMITLESS (PG-13) In Limitless, the
new film from Illusionist director Neil
Burger, writer Eddie Morra (Bradley
Cooper) stumbles upon a designer
drug that opens up the limitless
potential ol the human brain Soon,
Eddie is making millions from the slock
market and drawing the attention ol a
Wall Street bigwig (Robert De Niro)
But with all shortcuts, a catch comes in
the drug's habit-forming, deadly side
effects
MADEA’S BIG HAPPY FAMILY
(PG-13) Having written, directed,
produced and/or starred in 11 movies
since 2005. Tyler Perry has become
predictable. The broad, slapstick antics
ot mad matriarch Madea (Perry) are
larringly meshed with a faith-based
melodramatic family drama
MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (PG-13)
Owen Wilson stars as the latest
Woody stand-in. Gil. a Hollywood
hack trying to finish a novel while on
a family business trip to Paris with his
fiancee's (Rachel McAdams) family
On a magical midnight walk. Gil runs
into Scoff and Zelda Fitzgerald (Tom
Hiddleston and Alison Pill), gets
writing advice Irom Papa Hemingway
(Corey Stoll) and Gertrude Stein (Kathy
Bates) and falls for Picasso's girlfriend.
Adriana (Marion Cotillard) This tunny,
heartwarming charmer should please
anyone looking for an intelligent breeze
to freshen up the stagnant romcom
genre
MONTE CARLO (PG) While on a
not-so-dream vacation to Pans, three
young women—Grace. Meg and Emma
(Selena Gomez, Leighton Meester and
Katie Cassidy)—live the Princess
Dianes experience (paparazzi, fancy
dresses, fairy tale love) in Monte Carlo
alter one girl is mistaken lor a British
heiress Director Thomas Bezucha's
last film was the OK The Family Slone,
released six years ago Adapted from
Jules Bass tween lit hit, Headhunters
MR. POPPER S PENGUINS (PG)
Calling Mr Popper 's Penguins an
adaptation ot Richard and Florence
Atwater's 1938 Newberry Honor Book
is a stretch Tom Popper (Jim Carrey)
is a ruthless real estate something-
or-other. who's a rather sorry husband
(to Carla Gugino) and father (to Swing
Votes wonderful Madeline Carroll and
Maxwell Perry Colton), that is, unlit he
becomes the best poppa a penguin or
progeny could pray for
PIERRE DAURA (NR) The life ot artist
Pierre Daura is documented in this
28-minute biopic by Agnes de Sacy
Daura (1896-1976). who divided his
life between Catalonia. France and the
United States, produced artwork, both
abstract and figurative, that was colored
by his active engagement in historic
events, such as the Spanish Civil War.
that took place during his long lifetime
The Pierre Daura Curator of European
Art. Lynn Boland, will introduce this
documentary
RIO (G) Another week, another
average animated childrens movie that
won't quite pain the adults forced to
accompany them Alter Rango 2011s
animated output lias some minor big.
quirky boots to till
SILENT LIGHT (NR) 2007 Writer-
director Carlos Reygados' highly
acclaimed film about a Mennonite
man who struggles with his love for a
woman that is not his wife returns to
Athens
SNOW FLOWER AND THE
SECRET FAN (PG-13) Wayne Wang
(The Joy Luck Club. Smoke) returns
with a film set in modern day Shanghai
and 19th-century China Two triends,
Nina and Sophie, become intrigued
by the story ol Snow Flower and Lily,
two seven-year-olds bound for eternity
as laotang, or "old sames" Loosely
based on the novel by Lisa See. as a
character played by Hugh Jackman has
been added.
SOUL SURFER (PG) The second
release from new distributor
FilmDistrict, SoulSurler is based
on the true story of teenaged surfer
Bethany Hamilton (AnnaSophia Robb),
who lost her arm but not her desire to
hang ten to a shark attack
SUPER 8 (PG-13) In JJ. Abrams
new summer crowdpleaser. a group
ol junior Spielbergs witness a train
crash that unleashes some mysterious
and destructive events on their small
Ohio town The film's dramatic core
and primary means ot propulsion are
its dual mysteries, one fantastical one
tragically mundane Without giving loo
much away, but to establish a point of
reference, Super 8 is a Close Encounter
with Jaws and EI
TABLOID (R) Master documenlarian/
manipulator Errol Morris reveals the
hard to believe, true story of Joyce
McKinney. The former Miss Wyoming
was charged with the 1978 kidnapping
ot a Mormon boy with whom she had
become infatuated The British tabloids
ran away with this story of kinky sex, a
beauty queen and Mormons Its hard to
imagine Tabloid not winding up as one
ol the hottest docs of the year
THOR (PG-13) After a raid on the
Frost Giants goes awry, a petulant
Thor (Chris Hemsworth) is put in
timeout by his Allfather. Odin (Anthony
Hopkins). Until he learns lo use his
godlike powers selflessly, he is forced
to exist as one seriously cut, regular
dude who gets to woo Natalie Portman
as astrophysicist Jane Foster. When
Odin goes down lor the Odinsleep.
Thor's trickster brother. Loki (Tom
Hiddleston). assumes the throne while
his banished bro cools off
TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE
MOON (PG-13) What exactly did
Michael Bay think was wrong with the
last Transformers movie? Whatever he
fixed made Transformers Jcringingly
bad and Ihe worst of Ihe bunch.
THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA
MADRE (NR) 1948 Humphrey Bogart
stars as a down on his luck fella who
finds gold in Central Mexico with his
partner and a grizzled old prospector
Bui what happens once they find Ihe
treasure they seek? Winner ol three
Academy Awards—Best Director. Best
Writing and Best Supporting Actor
WINNIE THE POOH (G) Disney
brings Winnie the Pooh and all Ihe
other denizens of the Hundred Acre
Wood back to the big screen in the
hand-drawn animated tradition ol old
Walt himself. House ot Mouse.
X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (PG-13)
X-Men: First Class is what Ihe third
X-movie should have been.
• ZOOKEEPER (PG) As if a critics
opinion on Zookeeper really matters to
the family comedy's target audience
Kevin James seems like a nice enough
guy. and Paul Blart: Zookeeper rides
that nice train lor a little over 90
minutes James is Griffin, a nice guy
who nicely lakes care ol nice animals
for a nice living A pretty girl. Stephanie
(Leslie Bibb), broke his nice heart
because he's a nice zookeeper.
Drew Wheeler
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Chocotat (PG-13) 4:30 (ends Th. 7/14)
Classic Looney Tunes Cartoons (G) 3:00 (Sa. 7/16 & Su. 7/17)
Farmageddon (NR) 7:15 (Tu. 7/19)
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The Room :R) Midnight (F. 7/15)
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