Here are the films playing at Reel Pizza over this coming week...the week-long film is "off the schedule", as prints are tight on our original choices made so many weeks ago. Rest assured that the titles on our coming soon list are indeed still coming, as soon as we are able.
Also, a note that our Thursday afternoon Senior Matinees Program begins this Thursday (1/7). We will screen BRIGHT STAR at 1:30.
Till next week
-Lisa
Fri Jan 8 - Thurs Jan 14
INVICTUS (PG-13) 134min 5:30 and 8:15
Based on a true story, exceptional storyteller Clint Eastwood (Gran Torino, Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River) directs excellent (again) Morgan Freeman as newly elected South African president Nelson Mandela, and excellent (again) Matt Damon as the national rugby captain whose help is enlisted to unite their racially fractured and economically divided country. Using the universal language of sports, Mandela rallies his country's underdog rugby team, beloved by the white supremicists and despised by the blacks (who played soccer), toward an unlikely bid for the World Cup Championship. This inspiring story of political leadership and rousing sports drama has been nominated for 3 Golden Globe awards (for the director and his two actors.)
Fri Jan 8 - Mon Jan 11
AMELIA (PG) 111min 6:00 and 8:30
Actress Hilary Swank (Million Dollar Baby) transforms completely into pilot, celebrity and feminist Amelia Earhart. Director Mira Nair’s (The Namesake, Monsoon Wedding) sweeping and beautiful biographical film follows this pioneer’s momentous final decade as she becomes the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, propelled to instant prominence and a life of product endorsements by her promoter and eventual husband George Putnam (Richard Gere), through her clandestine affair with TWA founder Gene Vidal (Ewan McGregor) and into her ill-fated, round-the-world flight with her talented but alcoholic navigator Fred Noonan (Christopher Eccleston). Her extraordinary life of adventure, fame and mystery come to light in this thrilling account of the aviation pioneer.
Tues Jan 12 - Thurs Jan 14
THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD (NR) 96min 6:00 and 8:00
Pranksters Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum return with another series of performance-art-as-antiglobalization-activism pieces in their new film. In their first outing, the Yes Men presented themselves as representatives of the World Trade Organization and publicly made outrageous and false claims against the stated policies of the group, and nobody caught on. This time around, one of their ruses is they present themselves as spokespeople for Dow Chemical and report on live BBC television that Dow will finally clean up the largest industrial accident in history, the Bhopal pesticide catastrophe, which has never been responsibly dealt with. People worldwide cheer and Dow’s stock value plummets before the mischief is discovered. Their sincere, socially progressive acts are nervy, the delayed reactions, or lack of them, are outrageously funny, and their hope for change is honorable.
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good morning and Happy New Year to everyone
Here are the films playing at Reel Pizza over this coming week...the
week-long film is "off the schedule", as prints are tight on our original
choices made so many weeks ago. Rest assured that the titles on our
coming soon list are indeed still coming, as soon as we are able.
Also, a note that our Thursday afternoon Senior Matinees Program begins
this Thursday (1/7). We will screen BRIGHT STAR at 1:30.
Till next week
-Lisa
Fri Jan 8 - Thurs Jan 14
INVICTUS (PG-13) 134min 5:30 and 8:15
Based on a true story, exceptional storyteller Clint Eastwood (Gran
Torino, Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River) directs excellent (again)
Morgan Freeman as newly elected South African president Nelson Mandela,
and excellent (again) Matt Damon as the national rugby captain whose help
is enlisted to unite their racially fractured and economically divided
country. Using the universal language of sports, Mandela rallies his
country's underdog rugby team, beloved by the white supremicists and
despised by the blacks (who played soccer), toward an unlikely bid for the
World Cup Championship. This inspiring story of political leadership and
rousing sports drama has been nominated for 3 Golden Globe awards (for the
director and his two actors.)
Fri Jan 8 - Mon Jan 11
AMELIA (PG) 111min 6:00 and 8:30
Actress Hilary Swank (Million Dollar Baby) transforms completely into
pilot, celebrity and feminist Amelia Earhart. Director Mira Nair’s (The
Namesake, Monsoon Wedding) sweeping and beautiful biographical film
follows this pioneer’s momentous final decade as she becomes the first
woman to fly across the Atlantic, propelled to instant prominence and a
life of product endorsements by her promoter and eventual husband George
Putnam (Richard Gere), through her clandestine affair with TWA founder
Gene Vidal (Ewan McGregor) and into her ill-fated, round-the-world flight
with her talented but alcoholic navigator Fred Noonan (Christopher
Eccleston). Her extraordinary life of adventure, fame and mystery come to
light in this thrilling account of the aviation pioneer.
Tues Jan 12 - Thurs Jan 14
THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD (NR) 96min 6:00 and 8:00
Pranksters Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum return with another series of
performance-art-as-antiglobalization-activism pieces in their new film.
In their first outing, the Yes Men presented themselves as representatives
of the World Trade Organization and publicly made outrageous and false
claims against the stated policies of the group, and nobody caught on.
This time around, one of their ruses is they present themselves as
spokespeople for Dow Chemical and report on live BBC television that Dow
will finally clean up the largest industrial accident in history, the
Bhopal pesticide catastrophe, which has never been responsibly dealt with.
People worldwide cheer and Dow’s stock value plummets before the
mischief is discovered. Their sincere, socially progressive acts are
nervy, the delayed reactions, or lack of them, are outrageously funny, and
their hope for change is honorable.
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