Eugene Weekly : Movies : 05.04.06
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An American Haunting: Sissy Spacek and Donald Sutherland star in the multigenerational story of a family haunted by Tennessee's notorious Bell Witch. Directed by Courtney Solomon — whose previous credits include Dungeons and Dragons. R. Cinemark.
Fed Up! Genetic Engineering, Industrial Agriculture and Sustainable Alternatives: An overview of our current food production system, what our options are and what we can do to change the way we grow food. Shown with forest defense clips from around the world. Plays at 7 pm May 9 at the Lorax Manner, 1648 Alder. Free.
Final Destination 3: Yet another James Wong tale of a band of friends narrowly cheating death (this time by roller-coaster, no less!), and the grim reaper's subsequent pursuit of them. Starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Ryan Merriman. R. Movies 12.
Hills Have Eyes, The: Family road trip goes terribly wrong in this take of Wes Craven's 1977 original, as the travelers become stranded in an atomic zone with a mutant family. Yikes! R. Movies 12.
Hoot: An adaptation of Carl Hiassen's popular kids' book in which a trio of friends try to save a burrowing owl habitat from being developed by a chain restaurant. PG. Cinemark. Cinema World.
Joyeux Noël: An Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Film, Joyeux Noël imagines what happened on Christmas Eve, 1914, in the midst of WWI, when men from different armies put down their weapons and came out of their trenches to shake hands and fraternize. PG-13. Bijou.
Mission Impossible 3: Can Tom Cruise dodge the mountains of press about his personal life — er, many guys with guns and explosives in his way — and save the woman he loves from an impressively creepy Philip Seymour Hoffman? R. Cinemark. Cinema World.
Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii: Director's cut of Adrian Maben's 1972 concert film which was shot in an old Pompeii amphitheater. G. Bijou LateNite.
Poseidon: When a huge wave capsizes a luxury liner on New Year's Eve, a small group of passengers must fight for their lives. Josh Lucas, Jacinda Barrett, Kurt Russell and Richard Dreyfuss star in Wolfgang Petersen's (Das Boot) remake of The Poseidon Adventure. PG-13. Sneak preview at 10 pm May 11 at Cinemark.
Queer Women's Expository Entertainment Film Festival: Four nights of classic, award-winning, animated or brand new queer women's films. May 4-7 at the UO. See Calendar for complete schedule. Free.
Reproductive Justice Film Festival: Planned Parenthood presents a trio of films addressing reproductive health and rights: Rosita, The Abortion Diaries and Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Plays at 6:30 pm May 6 at DIVA. $5 adv., $7 dos.
Sisters, The: Director Arthur Allan Seidelman's film, shot partially on the UO campus, follows three sisters (and their brother) through a time of revelation and drama. Maria Bello, Mary Stuart Masterson and Erika Christensen head up a strong cast that makes the most of weak material. R. Bijou. See review this issue.
Slither: James Gunn's (Dawn of the Dead) creepy horror film finds strange critters appearing in a small American town. Stars Michael Rooker, Elizabeth Banks and Nathan Fillion, who was last seen aboard Serenity. R. Bijou LateNite.
Viy: In director Konstantin Yershov's 1967 film, a young priest must spend three nights alone with the corpse of a witch over whose wake he has been ordered to preside. In Russian with English subtitles. Plays at 7 pm May 10 in 111 Pacific, UO. Free.
Widespread Panic: Live from the Atlanta Fox Theatre: An exclusive Big Screen Concerts event brings the popular band to local screens via satellite from Atlanta, Ga. Plays at 5 pm May 9 at Cinemark. $15.
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Akeelah and the Bee: 11-year-old Akeelah (Keke Palmer) has a gift for words. Though her mother (Angela Bassett) isn't behind her, Akeelah (with the help of tutor Laurence Fishburne) enters spelling bees, eventually winning a chance to compete nationally. PG. Cinemark.
American Dreamz: Satirical spin on American Idol stars Hugh Grant as the bitter judge of a singing contest, Mandy Moore as a determined contestant and Sam Golzari as a show tune-loving terrorist. Directed by Paul Weitz (yes, he of American Pie). PG-13. Movies 12. Online archives.
Benchwarmers, The: Got picked last for kickball? So did these guys. David Spade, Jon Heder (aka Napoleon Dynamite) and Rob Schneider play grown-up geeks who start a baseball tournament to get revenge on nasty Little League teams. PG-13. Cinemark. Cinema World.
Curious George: The Man in the Yellow Hat (Will Ferrell) tries his best to tame Curious George in this animated version of the beloved children's series. The inquisitive chimp passes the time by sipping lattes, ruining a woman's bubble bath and getting carried away by a bunch of balloons. Other voices include Drew Barrymore, Eugene Levy, Joan Plowright and Dick Van Dyke. G. Movies 12.
Eight Below: Two men fighting for their lives in the stormy Arctic are air-rescued but must leave their loyal dogs behind. PG. Movies 12.
Firewall: As creator of a state-of-the-art security system for a Seattle-area bank, Jack Stanfield (Harrison Ford) has cemented his reputation as a man who's thought of everything. But when a criminal (Paul Bettany) finds a way into Jack's personal life by targeting his family, everything Jack holds dear is suddenly at stake. PG-13. Movies 12.
Fun With Dick and Jane: Jim Carrey and Tea Leoni star as middle-class thieves in Dean Parisot's remake of the limp 1977 comedy starring Jane Fonda and George Segal. Also stars Alec Baldwin and Angie Harmon. PG-13. Movies 12.
Hoodwinked: Animated comedy gives Little Red Riding Hood's adventures at Grandmother's house a real kick in the seat. Stars Glenn Close, Anne Hathaway, Patrick Warburton and Jim Belushi. PG. Movies 12. Online archives.
Ice Age 2: The Meltdown: Manny (Ray Romano), Sid (John Leguizamo) and Diego (Denis Leary) are back for another adventure. The animals are excited that the ice is melting — it's a paradise of water parks! But where is all that new water going to go? PG. Cinemark. Cinema World.
Inside Man: Spike Lee's new film is a hostage drama in which a tough cop (Denzel Washington) matches wits with a bank robber (Clive Owen), with Jodie Foster the situation's wild card. R. Movies 12.
Munich: Steven Spielberg's already controversial film about the secret Mossad assassins who tracked down the masked Palestinian terrorists who murdered 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics. Screenplay by Tony Kushner (Angels in America), starring Eric Bana, Geoffrey Rush, Daniel Craig, Mathieu Kassovitz and Ciaran Hinds. Underrated film is seen as a vengeance flick, but it's really about what happens to a man (Eric Bana, who should have been nominated for an Academy Award), whose loyalty to Israel is without question but who holds disturbing doubts about his actions. Very highest recommendations. R. Movies 12. Online archives.
Pink Panther: Bumbling French Inspector Jacques Clousseau (Steve Martin) must solve the murder of a world-famous soccer coach and catch the thief who stole his priceless diamond ring in this prequel to the 1964 classic. Also stars Kevin Kline, Jean Reno & Beyonce. PG. Movies 12.
RV: In Barry Sonnenfeld's latest film, Robin Williams tells his family they're going on vacation to Hawaii — but instead packs his wife and kids into an RV and heads to Colorado. Jeff Daniels heads up a wacky bunch of full-time campers. It's a sure bet there are hijinks involved. PG-13. Cinema World. Cinemark.
Scary Movie 4: Director David Zucker (Airplane!) takes on the fourth entry in the seemingly endless series, which sends up War of the Worlds, The Grudge, The Village, Saw and more. Stars Anna Faris and Regina Hall with an outlandish array of celebrity cameos, including Shaq, Dr. Phil and Lil' John. PG-13. Cinemark. Cinema World.
Sentinel, The: When TV stars attack! Uh, just kidding. But Keifer Sutherland ("24") and Eva Longoria ("Desperate Housewives") co-star with Michael Douglas, who plays a Secret Service agent who may or may not be trying to murder the president. PG-13. Cinemark. Online archives.
Silent Hill: Sure, it's based on a video game, but it stars Radha Mitchell (High Art) and Sean Bean. Shouldn't that be good for something? Mitchell plays a mother whose quest to heal her terminally ill daughter takes a detour to the creepy titular town. R. Cinemark. Cinema World.
Sixteen Blocks: NYPD detective Jack Mosley (Bruce Willis) has one last job for the day: take petty criminal Eddie Bunker (Mos Def) from lockup to the courthouse where he will testify in a grand jury case. R. Movies 12.
Stick It: From the writer of Bring It On comes this slightly absurd-sounding film in which a rebellious former gymnastics star, forced to return to the world of gymnastics after trouble with the law, butts heads with a hard-nosed coach (Jeff Bridges). Bring It On the Floor Mat? Nah, their title is better. PG-13. Cinemark.
Take the Lead: Stars Antonio Banderas as Pierre Dulane, a New York City ballroom dance teacher who taught inner-city kids to move their feet. PG-13. Cinemark.
Thank You for Smoking: Jason Reitman (the son of director Ivan Reitman) directs Aaron Eckhart and a strong supporting cast in this sharp-eyed, satirical look at the tobacco industry. R. Bijou. Online archives.
Tristam Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story: Instead of a straight adaptation of a supposedly unfilmable novel, Michael Winter-bottom (24 Hour Party People) created a post-modern film that turns into a story about the making of … itself. Sort of. Steve Coogan stars as "Steve Coogan," with Rob Brydon, Gillian Anderson and Kelly Macdonald. R. Bijou. See review this issue.
Ultraviolet: Sci-fi fantasy stars Milla Jovovich and Cameron Bright. PG-13. Movies 12.
United 93: The first of this year's 9/11 movies, director Paul Greengrass's (The Bourne Supremacy) film looks at how things might have happened when United Flight 93 went down over Pennsylvania. R. Cinemark. See review this issue.
Wild, The: Keifer Sutherland and Janeane Garofalo are among the actors voicing critters on a quest to rescue one of their own, who somehow got accidentally shipped off to the jungle. Madagascar, anyone? (William Shatner appears as a wicked wildebeest.) G. Cinemark.
MOVIE THEATERS
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Bijou Art Cinemas
Bijou Theater 686-2458 | 492 E. 13th
Regal Cinemas
Cinema World 342-6536 | Valley River Center
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Cinemark Theaters
Movies 12 741-1231 | Gateway Mall
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