[Reel Pizza] UpDate

Hot enough for ya?  Here are some cool films to help beat the heat this summer. 

Remember our special Friday late night programming begins this Friday July 11 at 11pm.  This week it is IMPROVISION, featuring the comic talents of the ImprovAcadia crew who create on-the-spot dialogue, music and sound effects to the camp classic The Queen of Outer Space featuring Zsa Zsa Gabor, a film they've NEVER SEEN!  It should be great fun, if you can stay up that late. (we might take naps on Friday afternoon...)

And for planning purposes, I want you all to know that Chris Nolan's highly anticipated DARK KNIGHT begins at Reel Pizza on the film's opening night July 18th (that is next Friday).  We anticipate having a special late evening Thursday show on 7/17, but the times are not confirmed yet.  Stay tuned for more details -- I will let you know when we've got it together!

See you soon
-Lisa and Chris

Friday July 11 - Thurs July 17
GET SMART  (PG-13)  110 min  6:00 and 8:30
Based on Mel Brooks� and Buck Henry�s 1960�s cult TV series, this new hilarious spy-spoof comedy stars Steve Carrell (40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN) as eager analyst Maxwell Smart.  He is promoted to agent after a security breach in the US Spy Agency CONTROL compromises the other agent�s identities.  Although this inexperienced yet enthusiastic new spy dreams of working with star Agent 3 (Dwayne Johnson), the Chief (Alan Arkin, LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE) instead partners him with lovely, lethal Agent 99 (Anne Hathaway, THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA).  Together, with a few gadgets, they must foil the doomsday plans of the evil crime syndicate KAOS, headed by Siegfried (Terence Stamp). 

Friday July 11 - Monday July 14
BEFORE THE RAINS  (PG-13)  98min [partly in Malayalam with subtitles]   5:30 and 8:00
Set in 1930s southern India against the backdrop of the growing nationalist movement, this lavish period melodrama from Merchant-Ivory Productions, is the English language debut of acclaimed Indian director and cinematographer Santosh Sivan (Asoka).  An idealistic young man (Rahul Bose) finds himself torn between his ambitions for the future and his loyalty to the past, when people in his village learn of an affair between his British boss (Linus Roache) a wealthy man who dreams of a spice empire, and a village woman (Nandita Das) his boss�s lovely married housekeeper.

Tues July 15 - Thurs July 17
SON OF RAMBOW  (PG-13)  96min   5:30 and 8:00
Disregard the bad title.  This charming and sweet British comedy from director Garth Jennings (Hitchhiker�s Guide to the Galaxy) is a feel-good coming-of-age story about two boys from difficult families.  Set in the 1980�s, Will is a withdrawn, lonely child who has grown up in a media-rejecting, strictly religious home; Lee is a latchkey delinquent being raised by his bullying older brother.  When these two misfits meet while sharing detention, they bond.  Lee introduces Will to movies with the first Rambo film, FIRST BLOOD, and they decide to enter a filmmaking competition with their own sequel.  This eccentric and funny film inventively mixes farce and fantasy into a picture of innocence and creativity.
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