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  .MOVIE LISTINGS | MOVIE REVIEW ARCHIVE | THEATER INFO
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OR RETURNING: AC/DC: The Bon Scott Years: A collection of live performances from the late 1970s featuring original singer Bon Scott. Not rated. Bijou LateNite. Best of the Eugene Film Festival: Part of a continuing series, this time focusing on outstanding animated work from the festival as well as a few previously unscreened submissions. 7 pm Dec. 20, DIVA. $5, $3 stu. Charlotte's Web: Dakota Fanning plays Fern, the little girl who loves her pig Wilbur (voice of Dominic Scott Kay) more than anything. Julia Roberts voices Charlotte the spider, who helps Wilbur escape his fate. G. Cinema World. Cinemark. Employee of the Month: Dane Cook and Dax Shepard are two slacker clerks working to become the employee of the month in hopes of getting in Jessica Simpson's pants. Ah, cinematic brilliance. PG-13. Movies 12. Eragon: Adaptation of young novelist Christopher Paolini's first thick tome stars John Malkovich as an apparently campy evil king. Newcomer Edward Speelers plays the title character, who bonds with a dragon named Saphira and, um, saves the world? Or at least the kingdom. Just a guess. PG-13. Cinema World. Cinemark. Fast Food Nation: Richard Linklater's second film this year (following A Scanner Darkly) turns Eric Schlosser's bestselling book into a story about immigration and the fast food industry. R. Bijou. Open Season: Sony breaks into the animation game with the story of a clueless grizzly bear (Martin Lawrence) whose friend Elliot (Ashton Kutcher) lures him into the wild life. PG. Movies 12. Pursuit of Happyness, The: Will Smith stars as a down-on-his-luck father who strives to make it as a stockbroker while facing eviction and raising his son (Smith's real-life son Jaden). PG-13. Cinema World. Cinemark. Rocky Balboa: Rocky (Sylvester Stallone) returns for what's supposed to be the last Rocky film. When a computer simulation shows that the young Rocky would likely have taken down the current champion, the aging Rocky agrees to an exhibition bout. PG. Opens Dec. 20 at Cinemark. Shortbus: Hedwig and the Angry Inch star John Cameron Mitchell directs a cast of young, pretty, sexually troubled (and adventurous) New Yorkers who connect at an underground club called Shortbus. Explicit, warm, funny and refreshingly sex-positive. Not rated. Bijou LateNite. We Are Marshall: Matthew McConaughey and Matthew Fox (Lost) play two coaches trying to revive the Marshall College football team following a horrifying crash that killed most of the previous team and staff. Oddly, this based-on-a-true-story flick is directed by McG (Charlie's Angels). PG. Sneak preview at 7:30 pm Dec. 16 at Cinemark. CONTINUING: Apocalypto: Mel Gibson follows The Passion of the Christ with another violent epic set in an ancient time (something that looks vaguely like the end of the Mayan Empire) and filmed in an unusual language. R. Cinema World. Cinemark. See review this issue. Barnyard: When the farmer's away, the cows will … order pizzas and throw a party? Don't think too much about this animated feature or you might begin to wonder why Otis (Kevin James) has udders. PG. Movies 12. Blood Diamond: Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou and Jennifer Connelly star in Edward Zwick's (Glory) film about diamond mining in Sierra Leone in the 1990s. R. Cinema World. Cinemark. Borat: Sacha Baron Cohen (of "Da Ali G Show")
plays the title character, a Kazakhstani reporter creating a documentary
while road-tripping across the U.S. The subtitle, "Cultural Learnings
of American for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan," ought to
tell you something. R. Movies 12. Casino Royale: Bond gets blond as Daniel Craig
(Munich, Infamous) steps into the role in a rebooting
of the whole franchise, turning it into something darker and, well,
better. With Judi Dench and Eva Green. PG-13. Cinema World. Cinemark
(also showing in digital). Deck the Halls: Matthew Broderick and Danny DeVito face off when DeVito's character decides to build the world's biggest holiday light display. With Kristin Davis, Kristin Chenoweth and Alia Shawkat. PG. Cinemark. Déja Vu: As far as we can tell, this Jerry Bruckheimer-produced, Tony Scott-directed thriller has something to do with traveling four days back in the future to stop a boat exploding. Or maybe it's just looking four days back. Clever preview, either way. Stars Denzel Washington and Val Kilmer. PG-13. Cinemark. Flicka: The remarkably ageless Alison Lohman (Matchstick Men) once again plays a teen, this time one who would rather work on her father's ranch (and work with wild mustang Flicka) than go to college. PG. Movies 12. Flyboys: James Franco (Spiderman, "Freaks and Geeks") heads up a cast of chiseled young men playing the Lafayette Escadrille, a group of American pilots who flew for the French during WWI. PG-13. Movies 12. Fountain, The: Fearless director Darron Aronofsky
(Pi, Requiem for a Dream) spent years making this ambitious
film, which follows characters in different times periods, all played
by Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz, all on difficult quests. PG-13. Cinemark.
Guardian, The: A hotshot young Coast Guard rescue swimmer (Ashton Kutcher) learns how to be a real hero from a retired swimmer who lost his team in an accident (Kevin Costner). PG-13. Movies 12. Happy Feet: Warner Bros. chases some March of the Penguins dough with this animated film, starring Elijah Wood as a cute lil' guy in search of his soul mate. (OK, so they were working on this one first. Still.) With Robin Williams, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman. PG. Cinema World. Cinemark. Holiday, The: Man-troubled Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet swap houses for Christmas break in the new film from Nancy Meyers (Something's Gotta Give) – and naturally, each finds a new feller (Jude Law and Jack Black) on the other's home turf. PG-13. Cinema World. Cinemark. Illusionist, The: In the first of the year's
two magician movies, Edward Norton plays a Venetian stage magician caught
up with an old love (Jessica Biel), a dogged inspector (Paul Giamatti)
and a crown prince (Rufus Sewell). PG-13. Movies 12. Man of the Year: Supposedly, Robin Williams' unlikely president in this film, a satirical comedian who ran as a joke, is partly based on Jon Stewart. Which is odd, because the previews aren't nearly as funny as The Daily Show. With Christopher Walken and Lewis Black. PG-13. Movies 12. Nativity Story, The: Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen) directs Whale Rider's Keisha Castle-Hughes as Mary in the Biblical story of Jesus' birth. With Shohreh Aghdashloo and Ciarán Hinds. PG. 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. Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley are
the in-love eye candy, with Bill Nighy all betentacled as watery bad
guy Davy Jones. PG-13. Movies 12. Queen, The: Stephen Frears' movie about the shifting
desires and threats of Britain's public and the differences in Tony
Blair's (Michael Sheen) and Queen Elizabeth II's (Helen Mirren) responses
to the death of Princess Diana is a grand, usually subtle fiction that
gets at a lot of truth. PG-13. Bijou. Santa Clause 3, The: Santa (Tim Allen) faces off against Jack Frost (Martin Short), who's trying to take over Christmas. G. Cinemark. School for Scoundrels: NYC meter "maid" Roger (Jon Heder) takes a confidence-building class led by Dr. P (Billy Bob Thornton). The surer of himself Roger becomes, the more competitive his instructor gets. PG-13. Movies 12. Stranger Than Fiction: Harold Crick (Will Ferrell)
begins to hear a voice (Emma Thompson) narrating his life — and
he doesn't like where the story's going. Marc Forster's (Finding
Neverland) new film has a stellar cast and an intriguing premise.
PG-13. Cinemark. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby:
Will Ferrell and NASCAR. What more do you need to know? OK, well, Ricky
Bobby (Ferrell) and his racing partner face a new challenge when a French
Formula One driver (Sacha Baron Cohen) arrives on the scene. PG-13.
Movies 12. Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny: Tenacious D (Jack Black and Kyle Gass) head off on a musical adventure obtain the Pick of Destiny and thereby become the Greatest Band on Earth. It's a biopic! Sorta. R. Movies 12. Unaccompanied Minors: A host of kids (traveling alone) find themselves snowed in at the airport (a fictional one in Chicago) on Christmas Eve. What else is there to do but wreak havoc? PG. Cinemark.
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