[Reel Pizza] update

hey there everyone

the next schedule (which takes us to the first day of SPRING!) will be in your mailboxes soon.

NOTES:
There are still tickets available for the Oscar Night Gala to benefit the Beth C. Wright Cancer Resource Center.  And the grand prize for picking the most correct Academy Awards is two round trip plane tickets to Florida! from Bangor!  (I could use that about now...how about you?)  Plus there are other great prizes for best costumed and best attired attendees.  Tickets are available at the Reel Pizza box office every afternoon and evening, and might be available at the door, also.  ($45 couple; $25 adults; $15 srs/student) Come have fun with us on Sunday night.  There will be divine hors d'oeuvres, complimentary champagne and Jon Stewart and all the stars on the big screen.  The festivities start earlier this year too, at 6:30. 

The senior movie this Thursday is THE KITE RUNNER, show starts at 1:30. 

Since we won't be showing films on Sunday night, because of the Oscar benefit, we will have matinees this Sunday 2/24 as well.  THE GREAT DEBATERS and JUNO will both be screened at 2pm this Sunday.  Next week's (2/28) senior matinee will also be JUNO.  (Hint:  if you want to see The Great Debaters, choose it Sunday, and wait till next Thurs to see Juno). 

-Lisa

now through Thurs Feb 28th
JUNO  (PG-13)  91min   6:00 and 8:00   (except Sunday 2/24)
*no eve shows Sun 2/24 - 2pm matinee only on Oscar Night
This extraordinary, quirky comedy about a spunky teen (a sensational Ellen Page) confronting an unplanned pregnancy with her friend and classmate Bleeker (Michael Cera, Superbad) is an uncommonly smart, funny and charming film directed by Jason Reitman (Thank You for Smoking).  Its refreshingly unique voice is the screenwriting debut of cult blogger Diablo Cody.  With the help of her best friend Leah, Juno tries to decide what to do about her situation, maybe an abortion, maybe finding her unborn child a perfect set of parents, like an affluent suburban couple longing to adopt (Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner) who took out an ad in the local pennysaver flyer. But nothing is that easy in this full-of-life portrait.  This film has earned 4 Oscar nominations, including best picture, best director, best original screenplay and best actress.

Fri 2/22 - Mon 2/25
THE GREAT DEBATERS  (PG-13)  127min  5:30 and 8:15  (except Sunday 2/24)
*no eve shows Sun 2/24 - 2pm matinees only on Oscar Night
Inspirational and intelligent, this powerful, heart-felt film recreates the victory of a debate team at a small black college in east Texas over the white, Ivy League national champions in a time (mid-1930�s) ruled by segregating Jim Crow laws and the New Deal.  In Denzel Washington�s second, directing effort (Antwone Fisher), he stars as the debate team coach Melvin Tolson who was also a renowned poet and moonlighted as an organizing activist.  Forest Whitaker (Last King of Scotland) plays the college�s president, a local preacher who is father to one of the team.  The young actors portraying the debate team members all give charismatic, believable performances.
 
Tues 2/26 - Thurs 2/28
FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO (NR)  97min   5:30 and 7:45
David Karslake�s deftly made and inspiring documentary is a powerful, compassionate and positive examination of the conflict between religion and homosexuality.  Religious leaders, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and biblical scholars discuss Bible literalism, a bias that seemingly ignores the cultural and historical context of the passages quoted when interpreting that scripture rejects homosexuality.  He also includes the stories of five evangelical families who have struggled to come to grips with the homosexuality of a child, including the family of recently elected and controversial Episcopal bishop Rt Rev V. Gene Robinson, and the family of Chrissy Gephardt, whose father Richard was a candidate for President and represented Missouri in Congress for many years.

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