Here is our reminder of what is happening at Reel Pizza this coming week. See you soon!
-Lisa
Fri Oct 22 - Thurs Oct 28
Fri Oct 22 - Mon Oct 25
Tues Oct 26 - Thurs Oct 28
*SPECIAL PROGRAMMING*
Friday Oct 22 - Thurs Oct 28
THE TOWN (R) 123min 6:00 and 8:30
Ben Affleck�s second outing as director proves his initial success (with Gone Baby Gone) was no fluke. In this smart, compelling heist drama based on the novel Prince of Thieves by Chuck Hogan, set in Boston of course, he stars as a thug who falls for the sunny bank manager (Rebecca Hall) who was briefly taken hostage while he was robbing her vault with his buddy (Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker). He�s kicked alcohol, and, now in love, he wants to beat crime. But he�s being chased by the FBI, and getting out means turning his back on his best friend, and his heritage, as his dad (Chris Cooper) taught him his trade. And then a local crime kingpin (Pete Postlethwaite) gives them a job they can't refuse.
Fri Oct 22 - Mon Oct 25
EASY A (PG-13) 92min 5:30 and 7:45
Like high school satire Election, this inventive, engaging and witty comedy features smart, sharp dialogue, and like Clueless, shares an inspirational literary relationship with a classic, this time Nathaniel Hawthorne�s �The Scarlet Letter.� A talented supporting cast (Patricia Clarkson, Stanley Tucci, Lisa Kudrow, and Thomas Hayden Church) keeps right up with the winning performance of young star Emma Stone. She plays Olive, a school nobody who is transformed to the school tramp after she fibs to her best friend about losing her virginity over the weekend, instead of the boring truth. Her conversation is overheard by the class morality queen (Amanda Bynes) and the news spreads virally among her peers. But instead of shying away, she embraces her new status, and uses it to help her peers gain social mobility.
Tues Oct 26 - Thurs Oct 28
LAST TRAIN HOME (PG) 85min [in Mandarin with subtitles] 5:30 and 7:45
This remarkable and riveting film documents the world of the Chinese migrant worker by following a single couple who left home years ago to work in a jeans factory, leaving the care of their children (now teens) to their grandparents one thousand miles away in Sichuan Province. These two work seven days a week to earn enough money to send their children to school, and only can come home during the Chinese New Year, when 130 million other migrants are making the same trek, the largest human migration on the planet. Chinese-born, Canadian filmmaker Lixin Fan (Up the Yangtze) spent three years with the Zhang family and has made an extraordinary and universal portrait of parents who sacrifice for their children, only to see their children come up with their own ideas of the future.
Sat Oct 23 SPECIAL PROGRAMMING
CASINO JACK AND THE UNITED STATES OF MONEY (R) *language 120min 2:00
sponsored by the Maine Citizens For Clean Elections, a nonpartisan coalition of groups and individuals who work in the public interest to advocate for, increase public support for, defend and improve the Maine Clean Election Act and related campaign finance law.
When mega-lobbyist Jack Abramoff was sentenced to jail in early 2006, he was seen as the personification of corruption, along with Tom DeLay and Bob Ney. But as this entertaining and provocative documentary shows, Abramoff and the individuals associated with him were just the tip of the iceberg. Filmmaker Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) takes the same approach to its topic that his previous documentary Enron: The Smartest Guys in The Room does, looking at the roots of the main character, and how deregulation led to the outright buying of elected officials. The most important topic that the documentary brings up is that this is neither "a few bad apples" nor a conspiracy. This happened because the American people let it happen by neglecting to take democracy seriously. Prevention of such events in the future requires the American people to stay vigilant of their government, and of corporations.
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