[Reel Pizza] update

hi everyone

quick before it snows!  here is the update for this coming week at Reel Pizza.  New schedule coming soon!
-Lisa

Senior matinee on Thursday 1/29 is MARLEY AND ME at 1:30.

Starting Friday Jan 30 thru Thurs Feb 5
MILK  (R)  128min      6:00 and 8:30
In 1977, Harvey Milk became the first openly gay man voted into public office in the US, when he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.  A year later he was murdered.  Seamlessly blending newsreel footage with an original screenplay by Dustin Lance Black, director Gus Van Sant's satisfying, timely and engaging new film charts the last eight years of the life of this martyred pioneer.  The ensemble cast features excellent performances, including Golden Globe nominated Sean Penn, who becomes the title character, a middle aged Jewish Republican insurance agent seeking change, James Franco (Pineapple Express) as his partner who moves with him from New York to the west coast, Emile Hirsch (Into the Wild) as a young activist who works tirelessly with Milk's campaigns, and Josh Brolin (W) as a conflicted conservative city supervisor elected at the same time as Milk.  This film has earned 8 OSCAR NOMINATIONS, including Best Picture, Director, Actor, Supporting Actor, Original Screenplay and Musical Score

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Fri Jan 30 - Mon Feb 2
CADILLAC RECORDS (R)  109min     5:30 and 8:00
This powerful chronicle with a phenomenal soundtrack of the rise of Chess Records and its recording artists tells the story of rhythm and the blues as they gave birth to rock 'n' roll on Chicago's south side from the late 1940's into the 1960's.  It all began when Leonard Chess (Adrian Brody, The Pianist) a Polish-Jewish émigré and bar owner hired the blues combo of Muddy Waters (Jeffrey Wright) on guitar and Little Walter (Columbus Short) on harmonica to play his club.  Soon he records them, and then is promoting their music across the country.  The family grows to include Big Willie Dixon (Cedric the Entertainer), Howlin' Wolf (Eammonn Walker), Chuck Berry (Mos Def) and Etta James (Beyonce Knowles), all of whom struggle with success. Writer-director Darnell Martin brings the story of these blues legends to dramatic, vibrant life.
 
Tues Feb 3 - Thurs Feb 5
THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS (PG-13)     5:30 and 7:45
This remarkable and moving Holocaust story, told with intelligence and grace, is based on the young adult novel by author John Boyne.  Bruno is a young German boy whose soldier father (David Thewlis) is about to be transferred from Berlin to the countryside.  His mother (Vera Farmiga) and sister (Amber Beattie) are proud of his promotion but don't understand its significance.  Their new home is near to a "farm" that the boy is forbidden to visit where the workers wear striped clothing, but as loneliness creeps in, he sneaks away, where he meets Shmuel, a Jewish boy his age on the opposite side of the fence.  Slowly Bruno begins to understand the dangerous hate, and wonders about his father's participation, as he vows to help his new friend.