[Reel Pizza] Update May 15 - 21

Hi everyone

I apologize that it may appear I am neglecting you.  Once again, the movie schedule week overwhelms, as it always does.  Today we hosted the MDIHS Senior Class for their Social Responsibility Day, a once a year activity we love and have been doing for many years, but upends the routine.  Plus we have just installed a new online-takeout ordering system that you can access from our website or our facebook page which will be detailed in the next email that you receive (the one with the next schedule, coming shortly!)  So lots of  fun and exciting "STUFF" happening that makes me forget what I am supposed to be doing!  perhaps I can blame an aging brain???

This weekend we are opening a brand new movie!  It must be close to summer!  The highly anticipated MAD MAX: FURY ROAD will start tomorrow and play for two weeks.  It stars Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy and is getting awesome early reviews.  And if that is not your cup of tea (and that is fine!), we have WOMEN IN GOLD, a remarkable historical drama starring Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds about a elderly woman trying to be reunited with a beloved painting stolen from her family by the Nazis during WW2, and a terrific documentary, THE WRECKING CREW, about the fabulous band who played behind most of the popular top 40 acts of the 1960s and 1970s that came out of Los Angeles, including Phil Spector's Wall of Sound, the Beach Boys and many others. 

I hope you are all enjoying the fabulous spring weather, planting the beginnings of your garden, riding your bicycle, and/or grilling on the deck before the bugs arrive.  We look forward to seeing you the next time you come in, or try the new online ordering system and get some takeout! 

-Lisa

Fri May 15 - Thurs May 28
MAD MAX: Fury Road (R)  120min 6:00 & 8:30
Director George Miller, the originator of the post-apocalyptic genre and
mastermind behind the legendary Mad Max franchise, returns to the world
of the Road Warrior, Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy). Haunted by his
turbulent past he believes the best way to survive is to wander
alone.Nevertheless he becomes swept up with a rebel group fleeing across
the Wasteland in a War Rig driven by a mysterious woman, Imperator
Furiosa (Charlize Theron). They are escaping from a Warlord from whom
something irreplaceable has been taken; he has mobilized all his gangs
to pursue the rebels ruthlessly while she is trying to cross the desert
to return to her childhood home.  trailer


Fri May 15 - Mon May 18
WOMAN IN GOLD  (PG-13) 110min 5:30 & 8:00
Based on a true story, this remarkable film tells the story of one
woman's battle to reclaim her heritage. Helen Mirren stars as Maria
Altmann, an elderly Jewish woman who as a bride escaped from Europe to
America on the eve of WW2, though her parents weren't so lucky. Now the
last remaining family member living, she cajoles a young lawyer (Ryan
Reynolds), grandson of an old family friend, to help her get back some
family possessions that were stolen. A painting that hung in her family's
house of her beloved Aunt Adele, painted by famous Austrian artist
Gustav Klimt, was seized by the Nazis and eventually placed on public
display in Vienna. Her journey takes her to the Supreme Court and the top
of the Austrian government while forcing her to confront her
history.   trailer

Tues May 19 - Thurs May 21
THE WRECKING CREW (PG) 95min 5:30 & 7:45
You may not be surprised to learn that the music played on recordings by
The Monkees, Sonny and Cher or Captain and Tenille were studio
musicians, but you might be more astonished to learn that group also
included The Byrds, The Beach Boys, all the bands that made up Phil
Spector's Wall of Sound, Elvis, Simon and Garfunkle, and more. Behind
nearly every hit in the heyday of Top Forty music out of Los Angeles in
the 1960s and 1970s, as well as many well-known TV theme songs - 
Bonanza, Mission Impossible, Pink Panther - was this same group of jazz
musicians who played without credit even though they were the best in
the business. Few escaped anonymity, so be prepared to discover the
talents of Hal Blaine, Earl Palmer, Carol Kaye, Plas Johnson, and Tommy
Tedesco, whose son Daniel made this documentary that took ten years to
get the rights to all the songs. trailer