[Reel Pizza] Update Jan 9 - 15

For all you patient HOBBIT-waiters out there, sorry to report it won't be this week either... Phooey!  But there are plenty of film options this time of year, and we will eventually convince the distributor to give us a print... Sometimes this business is so ridiculous... how do you make the eye-roll emoticon???  insert one here!!

Also, the winter Senior Matinee series starts this Thursday Jan 8th at 1:00pm.  BIRDMAN is the film.  We will announce next week's film at this week's screening.  We expect to continue weekly (Thursdays at 1:00pm) thru March and perhaps into April depending on films and interest.

Stay warm, remember we are a heated facility and have yummy warming soups as well as pizza and salads.

-Lisa

Fri 1/9 - Thurs 1/15  WILD (R) 115min  5:30 & 8:00
Fri 1/9 - Mon 1/12  ST VINCENT (PG-13) 103min  6:00 and 8:15
Tues 1/13 - Thurs 1/15  THE JUDGE (R) 142min   6:00 and 8:15

Fri Jan 9 - Thurs Jan 15
WILD (R) 115min   5:30 & 8:00
Reese Witherspoon gives an unglamorous performance as a young woman who, after the death of her mother (Laura Dern) from cancer at age 45, goes on a roll of personally destructive behavior. When her marriage ends she decides that walking solo over 1000 miles on the Pacific Crest Trail would be cathartic, despite having no hiking experience or a plan or a clue of what she is about to do. Director Jean-Marc Vallée (Dallas Buyers Club) and screenwriter Nick Hornby (An Education) adapting Cheryl Strayed's bestselling memoir, have made a powerful and uplifting film of an intimate journey that helps us understand who Cheryl was as well as who she was becoming. Witherspoon is a Golden Globe nominee for Best Actress! trailer

Fri Jan 9 - Mon Jan 12
ST VINCENT (PG-13) 103min   6:00 and 8:15
Bill Murray plays Vincent, a curmudgeon and alcoholic down to his last dime, whose life is upended when new neighbors move in next door. Melissa McCarthy, playing it straight, is an overworked single mom with a precocious and nerdy pre-teen son; working long hours, she needs a sitter, and Vincent's finances could use a boost, so an arrangement is made. An odd friendship soon grows between this improbable pair, as Vincent takes Oliver on all the stops that make up his daily routine, the corner bar, the racetrack, the strip club. Vincent helps Oliver grow to become a man, while Oliver begins to see in Vincent something that no one else is able to - a misunderstood man with a good heart. This is director Ted Melfi's debut feature.  This film is a Golden Globe nominee for Best Picture!  trailer

Tues Jan 13 - Thurs Jan 15
THE JUDGE (R) 142min  6:00 and 8:15
Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall both give excellent performances in this court-room drama with a complex family dynamic. Big city lawyer Hank (Downey Jr.) returns home for the first time in years to attend his mother's funeral, but before he leaves to return home discovers his estranged dad, a respected small-town judge, is suspected of murder. Rich, thoughtful, funny and absorbing, this new film from director David Dobkin (The Wedding Crashers) also features Vincent D'Onofrio and Jeremy Strong as his two brothers who still live at home, Vera Farmiga as his high school sweetheart and Billy Bobb Thornton as the prosecuting attorney. Duvall is a Golden Globe nominee for Best Supporting Actor!  trailer