Tuesday, October 21, 2014

[Reel Pizza] update Oct 24 - 30

hi all
Here is the schedule for this coming week, our last full week before our break.  We will be warm and cozy inside despite the weather outside.  Come join us for a film and camaraderie! 
-Lisa

now playing - Thurs 10/23   
THE SKELETON TWINS
  (R)  93min  6:00 and 8:15
and 
FRANK
  (R)  95min  5:30 and 7:45

Fri - Thurs    GONE GIRL  (R)  149min  5:00 and 8:00
Fri - Mon       MAZE RUNNER  (PG-13)  114min   5:30 and 8:15
Tues - Thurs   
LOVE IS STRANGE  (R)  98min   5:30 and 7:45


Friday Oct 17 - Thursday Oct 23
THE SKELETON TWINS  (R)  93min  6:00 and 8:15
SNL alumni Kirsten Wiig and Bill Hadar star as twins, estranged for a decade, who reunite unexpectedly and fumble to reconnect as they confront the reasons why their lives went so astray.  He is an unsuccessful gay actor, and she is not in love with her doting husband (Luke Wilson).  This absorbing, poignant and intimate character study blends funny and sad in equal measure.  Only the second feature from director Craig Johnson this film was co-written with Mark Heyman (The Black Swan) and won the US Dramatic Screenwriting prize at Sundance.  trailer

Tuesday Oct 21 - Thursday Oct 23
FRANK  (R)  95min  5:30 and 7:45
Based on a real person, Chris Sievey aka Frank Sidebottom, this original and eccentric rock and roll fable stars Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave) as the mysterious and enigmatic leader of an avant-garde pop band.  He wears a large papier-mâché mask on his head at all times, and is assisted by his terrifying theramin player (Maggie Gyllenhaal).  For a gig, they recruit a young wanna-be musician (Domhnall Gleeson) who is out of his league with this group, but sticks with them while they record an album and works the web to get them noticed. When they get offered a gig at SXSW, will they be able to cope?   trailer

Friday Oct 24 - Thursday Oct 30
GONE GIRL  (R)  149min  5:00 and 8:00
Director David Fincher’s new film, an intelligent, dark, stylish and twisty thriller, is based on the global best-seller written and adapted by Gillian Flynn.  Nick(Ben Affleck), a journalist, was recently downsized from his job and moved himself and his beautiful, socialite wife Amy (Rosamund Pike) back home to Missouri where he opens a bar with his twin sister and she feels totally out of place.  On their fifth wedding anniversary, Nick reports his wife missing, and it appears she disappeared amidst a bloody struggle.  Under pressure from police and a growing media frenzy, his portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble and his increasingly strange behavior has everyone asking: Did Nick Dunne kill his wife?  Both actors give fabulous performances along with Tyler Perry as Nick's shark lawyer and Neil Patrick Harris as a former beau of Amy’s.   trailer

Friday Oct 24 - Monday Oct 27
MAZE RUNNER  (PG-13)  114min   5:30 and 8:15
Adapted from the first of James Dashner's four bestselling YA novels, first time director Wes Ball - a visual effects artist - has made an engaging and intense action adventure fantasy film.  A teen (Dylan O'Brien, TVs Teen Wolf) awakens in a freight elevator going up.  He doesn't know his name or history and when he arrives, he finds himself in a lovely glade with a group of other boys surrounded by a high wall with only one opening, into a mysterious maze whose walls change every night.  From fragments of his strange dreams he and the others begin to piece together a way to escape.  trailer

 Tuesday Oct 28 - Thursday Oct 30
LOVE IS STRANGE  (R)  98min   5:30 and 7:45
John Lithgow and Alfred Molina give masterful, understated performances as a long-time gay couple who finally are able to legally marry and do so, only to have their lives swept out from underneath them when George is fired from his decades-long job teaching music in a Catholic school once their wedding is announced.  This calamity causes them to lose their insurance and their apartment, sending them on a search for more affordable housing. In the meantime, they are forced to live apart because none of their friends or family can fit them both.  While struggling with the pain of separation, they are further challenged by intergenerational tensions in their new living arrangements.  This gentle, empathetic and moving story from director Ira Sachs features a soundtrack of Chopin piano works.  trailer

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