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Cook) longs to race across the skies.
Unfortunately, he???s afraid of heights.
With the help of his friends, Dusty con
quers his fears and the skies.
PRISONERS (R) On a rainy
Thanksgiving, two young girls go
missing. The parents, Keller and Grace
Dover (Hugh Jackman and Maria Bello)
and Franklin and Nancy Birch (Terrence
Howard and Viola Davis), look every
where but eventually turn to the police,
represented by Detective Loki (Jake
Gyllenhaal). An obvious prime suspect,
the mentally challenged Alex Jones
(Paul Dano), appears, but no further
clues can be found.
THOR: THE DARK WORLD (PG-13)
Marvel???s sequel to the surprisingly
entertaining 2011 hit should have
built on its predecessor???s success.
Instead, the movie???s generic plot???an
evil villain seeks to destroy the
universe???and its science fiction
aesthetic resemble an even-numbered
Star Trek movie more than a Marvel
superhero feature. With frequent ???Game
of Thrones??? director Alan Taylor at the
helm, the movie???s Asgard could have
benefitted from a grittier, Westeros
look; instead, Asgard could be any
Naboo-like world from the Star Wars
prequel. Oddly enough, what seemed
like a weakness of the first film???Thor???s
unpowered banishment to Earth???is
exactly what???s missing from its sequel.
Thor: The Dark World simply becomes
more entertaining when the action
leavesAsgard.
12 YEARS A SLAVE (R) Will art
house sensation Steve McQueen
(Hunger wd Shame) succeed on a
larger scale? Chiwetel Ejiofor stars
as Solomon Northup, a free black
man who is kidnapped and sold into
slavery. As glad as I am to see Ejiofor
in a starring role, I???m equally jazzed
about Quvenzhane Wallis, Michael
K. Williams (aka Omar Little), Scoot
McNairy, Paul Giamatti, Benedict
Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Michael
Fassbender and Brad Pitt.
WE???RE THE MILLERS (R) After run
ning afoul of his drug kingpin pal (Ed
Helms), Dave (Jason Sudeikis) must
smuggle a smidge that turns out to be
a lot more than a smidge of marijuana
across the border. Dave hatches a bril
liant plan to fake a family with stripper
Rose (Jennifer Aniston), runaway teen
Casey (Emma Roberts) and virginal
Kenny (Will Poulter). Everything works
out great until the big-time Mexican
drug lord to whom the weed really
belongs to catches up with them.
Drew Wheeler
SOME LIKE IT HOT
BABY DOLL (NR) Fifty-seven years after it
was first theatrically released, Elia Kazan's
Baby Doll (written by Tennessee Williams)
still sizzles. Sure, movies have become a lot
more aggressive and overtly sexual in the
last five decades???a case in point being the
recent brilliant French romantic drama Blue
Is the Warmest Color, which features a leave-
nothing-to-the-imagination seven-minute
sex scene between its two lead actresses.
The scene was scandalous enough to land
the movie a NC-17 rating from the MPAA and
caused it to be banned from being shown in
Idaho. Regardless of how explicit the scene
enough sexual tension to fuel countless sleep
less, swelteringly hot Southern summer nights.
It's Kazan and Williams at their brazen best.
The title role made Baker a Hollywood
starlet, but the real standout performances
in Baby Doll come courtesy of Malden and
Wallach. Malden and Kazan had worked
together several times before, most nota
bly in A Streetcar Named Desire and On the
Waterfront. But it's his turn as the painfully
pent-up and unhinged Archie Lee Meighan
here where Malden really lets loose. His per
formance is deliriously enjoyable and blackly
comical, although there is a real sense of
Carroll Baker and Eli Wallach
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is in Blue Is the Warmest Color, is it any more
erotically charged than two of the most noto
rious and suggestive scenes in Baby Doll???the
image of teenage nymphet Baby Doll (Carroll
Baker) curled up in a child's crib wearing a
skimpy nightie and sucking her thumb while
her middle-aged husband (Karl Malden) peeps
at her through a keyhole? Or the scene when
a venal cotton-gin owner (a Sicilian, no less),
played by the fabulous Eli Wallach in his first
screen role, seduces the virginal child bride
Baby Doll on a swing, one of his hands sug
gestively kept out of frame while the other
caresses her neck and face? The moment is
uncomfortable, hysterical and charged with
sadness running through it, as well. This is
Tennessee Williams' South, after all, and trag
edy has a way of poisoning everyone's well.
Wallach does his best to steal every scene
from Malden, although he's more subdued
here than in many of his subsequent roles.
He's also darkly sexy, a side of him that would
never reappear on screen.
Baby Doll will be screened on 35mm only
on Wednesday, Dec. 4 at 8 p.m. at Cine as
part of their month-long Southern Culture on
Screen series. UGA Interim Vice Provost Hugh
Ruppersburg will introduce the movie.
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