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  .MOVIE LISTINGS | MOVIE REVIEW ARCHIVE | THEATER INFO
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OR RETURNING: Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938): The music of Irving Berlin plays a key part in the love-triangle tale of a violinist, a pianist and a singer whose ragtime band takes them unexpected places. Alfred Newman's score won an Oscar. Plays at 1:30 pm Aug. 3 at the Shedd Recital Hall as part of the Oregon Festival of American Music. Free. Ant Bully, The: Nicolas Cage, Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep lend their voices to the animated tale of a kid shrunk down to bug-height and put to work by the insects he used to torment. PG. Cinemark. Brick: Rian Johnson's well-reviewed film is a combination of teen flick and film noir starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt (10 Things I Hate About You) as a young man caught up in a world of teen crime after receiving a distraught phone call from his girlfriend. R. Bijou. Cocoanuts, The (1929): The Marx brothers run a hotel in Florida and stop a jewel thief in this film, based on their 1925 stage hit. With score mostly by Irving Berlin. Plays at 10 am Aug. 3 at the Shedd Recital Hall as part of the Oregon Festival of American Music. Free. DCI Quarterfinals: Drum Corps International competition on the big screen. Plays only at 7 pm Aug. 3 at Cinemark. Goal! The Dream Begins: Dreams-come-true story of a young man in L.A. who gets noticed by a top British soccer player and whisked off to the U.K. to try out for a team. With Kuno Becker and Alessandro Nivola. PG-13. Movies 12. Hotel Rwanda: During the Rwandan massacres of 1994, a hotel manager named Paul Rusesabagina offered refuge to more than 1,000 Tutsis fleeing rampaging Hutus. Directed by Terry George, film stars Don Cheadle, with co-stars Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix, Nick Nolte. Very highest recommendations. PG-13. Plays at 7 pm July 28 at Unity of the Valley. Free. Online archives. Idiot, The: Reading and film series focusing on Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot and Vladimir Bortko's adaptation of the text. Ninth reading and episode July 27; tenth reading and episode Aug. 1: 7 pm film, 8 pm discussion each night. 142 Law, UO. John Tucker Must Die: Jesse Metcalfe — whom you may know as the tempting young gardener on "Desperate Housewives" — plays the title character, whose many girlfriends get together to exact revenge on the cheating high school feller. PG-13. Cinema World. Cinemark. Love Bug, The: Family film about a VW bug with real personality. Plays at 9 pm July 28 at Washington Park. Free. Miami Vice: Director Michael Mann (The Insider), who executive produced the original "Miami Vice" TV series, brings a darker version to the big screen. Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx star as detectives Crockett and Tubbs, who are deeply involved in undercover work fighting drug traffickers. Naomie Harris and Gong Li costar. R. Cinemark. Cinema World. Over the Hedge: A gang of woodland creatures wakes up from their winter hibernation to find a big green thing has appeared in their world. On the other side, they hear, wacky creatures called "humans" exist. Bruce Willis, William Shatner and Steve Carrell are among those voicing critters. PG. Movies 12. Retro Thriller Cinema: Part of Summer Reading for Teens. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes plays at 6 pm July 28 at Sheldon Library; Ladyhawke plays at 2 pm Aug. 2 at the Downtown Library; Godzilla vs. Mothra plays at 2 pm Aug. 3 at Bethel Library. Free. Scoop: Woody Allen's second shot-in-London film keeps the star of Match Point, Scarlett Johansson, here playing a young journalist uncovering the story of a lifetime. Hugh Jackman, freed from his Wolverine getup, is her potentially dangerous love interest. PG-13. Cinema World. SpongeBob SquarePants: Animated feature starring one of Nickelodeon's most absorbing characters. Voices: Alec Baldwin, Scarlett Johansson. PG. Plays only at 10 am Aug. 1 at Movies 12. Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust: The titular vampire hunter, child of a human and a vampire, sets out to save a young woman kidnapped by the vampire Meier Link. Part romance, part horror, part science fiction and part action film, from director Yoshiaki Kawajiri (Ninja Scroll). Not rated. Bijou LateNite.
CONTINUING: Break-Up, The: Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn star in the latest from director Peyton Reed (Bring It On) as a Chicago pair who apparently aren't very good at breaking up. PG-13. Movies 12. Online archives. Cars: The animation wizards at Pixar (Toy Story, Finding Nemo) team up with Disney for the story of a rookie race car (voiced by Owen Wilson) taking an unexpected detour on his way to a big race. Bonnie Hunt and Paul Newman also voice characters. G. Cinemark. Online archives. Clerks II: Eminently quotable writer-director Kevin Smith returns to the mini-mart clerks with which his career began. Randal (Jeff Anderson) and Dante (Brian O'Halloran) face fast food jobs, grown-up matters and, of course, endless geek-centric debates. R. Cinema World. Cinemark. Click: Christopher Walken gives Adam Sandler a truly universal remote: it lets him put the wife on fast forward, put the boss on pause, help the kid get even … until the remote goes all TiVo on him and starts making decisions on its own. PG-13. Cinemark. Devil Wears Prada, The: Meryl Streep stars as demanding, high-powered fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestley, whose new assistant (Anne Hathaway) is fresh from college and totally clueless about fashion. Based on Lauren Weisberger's bestselling novel. PG-13. Cinema World. Cinemark. Online archives. Fast and the Furious, The: Tokyo Drift: The series gets a new star in Lucas Black (Friday Night Lights), whose character moves to Japan and gets caught up in the underground world of drift racing. PG-13. Movies 12. Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties: Bill Murray returns as the voice of the once-somewhat-classic Garfield, who follows his owner Jon (Breckin Meyer) to London. Some kind of mad cat switcheroo ensues with a high-falutin' royal feline named Prince. PG. Movies 12. Inconvenient Truth, An: Following the 2000 election, Al Gore changed tack, turning his focus to the worldwide crisis that is global warming. Director Davis Guggenheim combines footage of Gore's traveling multimedia presentation on climate crisis with Gore's personal story, creating an effective and engaging film. PG. Bijou. Online archives. Lady in the Water: Paul Giamatti (Sideways) plays a building super who finds, in the building's pool, a creature called a "narf" (seriously) who needs to get back to her world. Supposedly, the first film from writer-director M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense) to not hinge on a plot twist. PG-13. Cinema World. Cinemark. See review this issue. Lake House, The: Kate (Sandra Bullock) and Alex (Keanu Reeves) are carrying on a correspondence through the mystical mailbox of a house on an Illinois lake — despite living in worlds that are two years apart. Time-challenged romance sounds kinda corny, but hey, Ebert and Roeper both liked it. PG-13. Cinemark. Little Man: Director Keenen Ivory Wayans' new film follows a height-challenged thief (Marlon Wayans) who dresses up like a baby and gets himself adopted in order to recover a diamond. PG-13. Cinemark. Monster House: Three kids face off against a creepy neighborhood house that's something other than haunted. With the voices of Maggie Gyllenhaal, Steve Buscemi and Jon Heder. PG. Cinema World. Cinemark. Online archives. My Super Ex-Girlfriend: Matt (Luke Wilson) breaks up with his needy girlfriend Jenny (Uma Thurman) only to find she's got superpowers. And she's going to use them against him. Because women are crrrrazy! PG-13. Cinema World. Cinemark. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest: Johnny Depp reprises his role as over-the-top swashbuckler Jack Sparrow in the second Pirates film, which we rather fervently hope is as entertaining as the first. Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley are the in-love eye candy — actually, it's a toss-up as to which of the three leads is prettiest. With Bill Nighy all betentacled as watery bad guy Davy Jones. PG-13. Cinemark. Cinema World. Online archives. 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. Movies 12. Superman Returns: At long last, the man of steel returns to movie screens — and to Earth. In director Bryan Singer's new film, Superman's been gone five long years, during which his former flame Lois Lane has had a son and found a new fellow. Oh, and Lex Luthor is out of prison. Starring Brandon Routh as the man in tights, Kate Bosworth as Lois and Kevin Spacey as Lex. PG-13. Cinemark. Online archives. 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. Movies 12. Online archives. 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. Movies 12. Wordplay: Bill Clinton, Jon Stewart and Yankees pitcher Mike Mussina are among those proclaiming their love for the New York Times crossword puzzle in this winning doc, which focuses on puzzle master Will Shortz and the competitors in an annual crossword tournament. Likely one of the best films of the year. PG. Bijou. Online archives. X-Men: The Last Stand: The third X-Men movie combines the loved-by-fans "Dark Phoenix" storyline with the discovery of a "cure" for mutancy. Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Famke Janssen and the rest of the core cast return (sans Nightcrawler, oddly). Stay through the credits for a vital scene. PG-13. Movies 12. Online archives. You, Me and Dupree: Kate Hudson and Matt Dillon star as a newly married couple whose new life together takes a sharp turn when perpetual bachelor Dupree (perpetual scene-stealer Owen Wilson) crashes at their place. But it's just for a little while. Right? PG-13. Cinemark.
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