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ABDUCTION (PG-13) John Singleton
is back and he's bringing Taylor
Lautner with him Can the Twilight sen
sation open a movie on his own? He
will try as Nathan, a young man who
leels distant from his parents. When he
discovers he was kidnapped as a child,
he must go on the lam to survive and
uncover the truth With Lily Collins
(The Blind Side), Allred Molina. Jason
Isaacs, Maria Bello, Michael Nyqvist
(the Swedish Mikael Blomkvist) and
Sigourney Weaver
AIRPLANE! (PG) 1980. "Chump
don' want no help; chump don't get da
help 1 " jived Barbara "June Cleaver"
Billingsley in this eminently quotable
tirsl film from the ZAZ collective (Naked
Gun, HotShots).
BUCKYLARSON:BORN TO BE A
STAR Nick Swardsongets his star on
as the titular bucktoothed Midwesterner
with dreams of achieving pornographic
stardom like his parents (a disgraced
Edward Herrman and Miriam Flynn).
Adam Sandler should be ashamed to
have cowritten such a mean-spirited
comedy
COLOMBIANA (PG-13) Gallic action-
eer Luc Besson misses completely with
Colombiana. A revenge potboiler about
a hottie assassin should be exploitation
cake Instead, stale dialogue and ter
rible music cues far too often breaks up
the often exhilaratingly stealthy action.
Zoe Saldana makes for one badass,
gun toting chica, who is seeking the
drug lord that killed her parents
CONTAGION (PG-13) In Steven
Soderbergh’s new chiller a deadly new,
highly communicable virus enteres
the population. How quickly and
effectively can the world's governments
and health agencies (represented by
Laurence Fishburne, Kate Winslet.
Bryan Cranston and Marion Cotillard)
respond 7 What sort of wildfire will
spread via the blogosphere (thanks,
Jude Law) 7 How will the rest of us
(Matt Damon stars as the people's
proxy) respond as loved ones (like
Gwyneth Paltrow) quickly and mysteri
ously tall ill 7
COWBOYS & ALIENS (PG-13)
A man with no memory (Daniel
Craig) assists a wealthy Civil War
vet (Harrison Ford) and the other
townsfolk tracking the extraterrestrials
who ran off with half of their dwindling
mining town. Craig makes a dutiful,
if uncharismatic gunslinger, but Ford,
wonderfully aged and crotchety, still
retains roguish charm to spare for his
co-stars. Not that Sam Rockwell and
Walton Goggins need any help provid
ing their comic relief services.
CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG-13)
Steve Carell stars as Cal Weaver,
whose wife, Emily (Julianne Moore),
suddenly bombs him with a divorce
pronouncement that leads him to a
local bar where he meets inveterate
womanizer Jacob (Ryan Gosling).
While Cal the nice guy is learning to
objectify women, Jacob the man-whore
is falling for law student Hannah
(Emma Stone). Who would ever think
those actions would develop into the
summer's most charming wide release?
THE DEBT (PG-13) The Debt boasts
an Academy Award nominated director
John Madden (Shakespeare in Love), a
script by X-Men: First Class's Matthew
Vaughn, music by Thomas Newman
AND a cast of Helen Mirren. “It Girl"
Jessica Chastain, Sam Worthington,
Ciaran Hinds and Tom Wilkinson A
two-man, one-woman Mossad team
attempts to kidnap Dieter Vogel, Ihe
feared Surgeon ol Birkenau while time
jumps back and forth.
DOLPHIN TALE (PG) This fall family
film is based on the true story of a boy
who befriends a dolphin that has lost
its tail in a crab trap Soon, the boy and
everyone he knows are working to con
struct a prosthetic appendage for the
inspirational mammal. The movie’s got
some big names in Morgan Freeman.
Ashley Judd. Kris Kristofferson and
Harry Connick. Jr
DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK
(PG-13) In this Guillermo del Toro writ
ten and produced update of the 1973
TV movie, a depressed little girl, Sally
(Bailee Madison), goes to live with
daddy (Guy Pearce) and his new girl
friend, Kim (Katie Holmes), in the old,
dark house they're restoring. Sally's
depression does not improve when
ancient little creatures that can’t stand
the light escape from the basement.
• DRIVE (R) Drive slides through the
alleys and sidestreets of its criminal
Los Angeles with the precision, skill
and style of its nameless Driver (Ryan
Gosling), called the Kid by his boss/
handler, Shannon (Bryan Cranston).
MOVIE LISTINGS
Schedules often change after our deadline. Please call ahead.
CINE (706-353-3343) check website for show times
The Guard (R) 5:15 (no 5:15 show F. 9/23 or Sa. 9/24), 7:30 (W. 9/21
& Th. 9/22), 9:45
General Orders No. 9 (NR) 7:00 (Sa. 9/24)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (PG-13) 4:30 (starts F.
9/23)
Manhattan Short Film Festival 5:00 (F. 9/23), 2:30 (Sa. 9/24 & Su.
9/25), 7:30 (M. 9/26-Th. 9/29)
Sarah's Key (PG-13) 5:00 (W. 9/21 & Th. 9/22), 7:15, 9:30 (no 9:30
show Su. 9/25), 2:30 (Sa. 9/24 & Su. 9/25)
UGA TATE CENTER THEATER (706 542 6396)
Airplane (PG) 8:00 (Th. 9/22)
Rung Fu Panda (PG) 3:00. 6:00, 9:00 (F. 9/23-Su. 9/25)
Accurate movie times for the CARMIKE 12 (706-354-0016),
BEECHWOOD STADIUM 1 1 (706-546 1011) and GEORGIA
SQUARE 5 (706-548-3426) cinemas are not available by press
time. Visit www.flagpole.com for updated times.
Stuntman by day, getaway man for hire
by night, the driver slides his leather
driving gloves on and gels his bumpers
bloody when a cute neighbor (Carey
Mulligan) with a little tyke runs afoul of
some local toughs.
THE GUARD (R) Brendan Gleeson
and Don Cheadle star in Ned Kelly
writer John Michael McDonagh s
feature debut, an '80s-sounding
buddy cop-corn. He's an unorthodox
Irish policeman (Gleeson); he’s an
uptight FBI agent (Cheadle) With Liam
Cunningham, Fionnula Flanagan and
Mark Strong.
HARRY POTTER AND THE
DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2
(PG-13 It’s over. The final battle
rages over and through the hallowed
halls of Hogwarts as Harry (Daniel
Radcliffe), Hermione (Emma Watson)
and Ron (Rupert Grint) attempt to end
Voldemort’s (Ralph Fiennes) evil reign
The last few Horcruxes must be found
and destroyed if Harry is ever to truly
defeat You-Know-Who.
THE HELP (PG-13) Every black ser
vant is a saint, every white employer
a demon. College-educated Eugenia
“Skeeter" Phelan (the extremely likable
Emma Stonet) comes home to Jackson
to save its minority population through
bestselling pop fiction. She collects the
stories of long-serving maids Aibileen
(Viola Davis), Minny (Octavia Spencer)
and more into an illegal (in 1960s
Mississippi) tome that scandalizes the
gentry.
HORRIBLE BOSSES (R) Horrible
Bosses is the summer's funniest movie
(since the last time). Nick (Jason
Bateman) works for an evil corporate
shark played perfectly by Kevin Spacey
(with a wink and a nod to the darkly fun
Swimming with Sharks) Dale (Charlie
Day) is getting seriously sexually
harassed by his seriously hot dentist
boss (Jennifer Aniston) Kurt (Jason
Sudeikis) answers to a cokehead
douchebag that resembles a balding
Colin Farrell (Farrell).The solution to
their employment problems is to mur
der each other's boss
• I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE DOES
IT (PG-13) Sarah Jessica Parker is
Kate Reddy, a working mom who's sad
because she’s missing out on her two
kids' big moments but unwilling to
stop doing what it takes to survive in a
“man's world "Husband (Greg Kinnear)
loses his patience as mother breaks
another promise to a disappointed
child that makes the mother feel even
worse. Optional infidelity plotline via
Pierce “I was James Bond, you know"
Brosnan.
KILLER ELITE (R) A retired member
of Britain's Elite Special Air Service,
Danny Bryce (Jason Statham). thinks
he’s out of the game until his beloved
mentor (Robert De Niro) is kidnapped,
forcing Danny to go after three hired
guns and their leader. Spike (Clive
Owen).
KUNG FU PANDA 2 (PG) The second
adventure of Dragon Warrior Po (v
Jack Black, who is better heard than
seen) and the Furfbus Five has more
visual inventiveness than it does comic
or narrative combined Peacock Shen
(v Gary Oldman) plots to rule China
with a gunpowder-based weapon that
nullifies the powers of Kung Fu
MACHINE GUN PREACHER iR)
This biopic is about Sam Childers,
a returned drug-dealing biker who
linds God and becomes the crusader
for hundreds of Sudanese child sol
diers. Gerard Butler is Childers. With
Michelle Monaghan and Oscar nomi
nee Michael Shannon (Revolutionary
Road).
MANHATTAN SHORT FILM
FESTIVAL (NR) Cin6 brings the larg
est short film festival in the world to
Athens with Ihe 10 best short films
selected from 598 entries representing
48 countries.
MONEYBALL (PG-13) Capote film
maker Bennett Miller follows up his
Oscar winning first film with this
adaptation of Michael Lewis' baseball
book Brad Pitt stars as Oakland A's
general manager, Billy Bean, who used
computer analysis to build a success
ful team on a budget. Pitt is joined
by Jonah Hill. Robin Wright, Philip
Seymour Hoffman and the hilarious
Chris Pratt.
NORTEADO (NR) 2009. In Norteado.
or Northless, Andres (Silver Ariel
nominee Harold Torres, who won the
Best Actor award from the Bratislava
Film Festival) reaches Mexico's north
ern border on the way to the United
States but is confounded by each
attempted border crossing Forced to
wait in troubled Tijuana. Andres must
confront what he left behind and what
lies ahead
PUNCTURE (R) Based on a real-life
case. Functure stars Chris Evans
as one half of small time legal team
fighting the big boys in the case of an
ER nurse pricked by a contaminated
needle. Naturally, they uncover an
ever-deepening conspiracy. Oh, one of
the legal eagles is a functioning drug
addict, too.
THE REAL DIRT ON FARMER
JOHN (NR) 2005. Maverick
Midwestern farmer, John Peterson,
turns his farm around in the midst of
a failing economy. See how he does
it in Taggart Siegel's award winning
doc. Sponsored by the Department of
Horticulture. Followed by a discussion
panel.
RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE
APES (PG-13) While Tim Burton's
damned dirty apes disappointed heav
ily. this new Apes prequel has my
inner Dr. Zaius all a flutter. A super
smart chimp named Caesar (Andy
Serkis in yet another motion capture
performance) leads a primate revolu
tion. James Franco stars as the human
scientist who created and raised him.
With Brian Cox, Freida Pinto and John
Lithgow.
SARAH’S KEY (PG-13) A Parisian
journalist (Kristin Scott Thomas) inves
tigating the notorious 1942 Vel' d'Hiv
Roundup becomes embroiled in the
mystery of a young girl whose family
ties were severed by the Holocaust.
With M6lusine Mayance as 10-year-old
Sarah Starzynski and Niels Arestrup
SHARK NIGHT (PG-13) Some Tulane
students head to a pretty blonde's (Sara
Paxton) isolated lake house Too bad
the saltwater lake is filled with a variety
of sharks!
THE SMURFS (PG) The live action/
CGI hybrid version of The Smurfs is
not as bad as its atrocious trailers
would imply, thanks largely to the
smurfish talents of Neil Patrick Harris
and television performers like “Project
Runway"'s Tim Gunn, “Glee"'s Jayma
Mays and "Modern Family"'s Sofia
Vergara.
• STRAW DOGS (R) This remake
of the violent 1971 Sam Peckinpah
classic will play a lot differently in the
Deep South than filmmaker Rod Lurie
might expect. Hollywood screenwriter
David Sumner (James Marsden, and
his actress wife, Amy (Kate Bosworth),
return to her backwoods Mississippi
hometown. There, David meets all
the local wildlife: Amy's ex BF/former
QB hero. Charlie Venner (Alexander
Skarsgard); legendary head coach/town
drunk, imaginatively named Coach
(James Woods); a low functioning/
implied sexual predator (Dominic
Purcell) who provides the spark needed
to light the bloody, fiery last act.
WARRIOR (PG-13) Two brothers.
Brendan and Tommy (Joel Edgerton
and Inception’s Tom Hardy, whose
shoulders are scarily massive), battle
each other, the inner demons born from
growing up with an alcoholic father
(Nick Nolte) and tough opponents like
Olympic Gold Medalist Kurt Angle.
Surprisingly, Warrior never feels inva-
sively manipulative until revelations
about Tommy's service record whip out
the patriotism
ZOOKEEPER (PG) Kevin James is
Griffin, a nice guy who nicely takes
care of nice animals for a nice living
A pretty girl, Stephanie (Leslie Bibb),
broke his nice heart because he's a
nice zookeeper. The animals, who can
talk thanks to Sylvester Stallone, Cher,
Adam Sandler. Judd Apatow, Maya
Rudolph, Jon Favreau, Faizon Love and
Nick Nolte, break their code of silence
to help the lovable Griffin win his
dream girl, who isn't really as dreamy
as zoo vet Kate (Rosario Dawson).
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