[Reel Pizza] update and news

hi everyone

This week's Senior Matinee is DOUBT, which will be screened at 1:30.
Below are two press releases with upcoming news that wasn't finalized in time to make it into the printed schedule.

VACATION WEEK SCHEDULE  For all you parents out there, like us, it should not be news that this Friday begins the annual winter school vacation.  And if your children are not of the age, or do not have the interest in or the level of coordination for participating in interscholastic basketball, the options of what to do to fill this time may be slim.  Hopefully Mother Nature will cooperate to provide some sledding or skating for daytime activities.  To help fill the darker hours Reel Pizza in Bar Harbor is somewhat modifying its schedule and has booked some family-friendly films, two rated PG and two rated PG-13, and has adjusted the showtimes earlier.  The film schedule from Friday February 13 through Thursday Feb 19 includes four films which are of different genres to suit all tastes.  On Tuesday February 17, both films will change.  The full schedule for the ending weekend of vacation is still not finalized.  (The schedule is below, as usual).

COA GARDEN FUNDRAISER   COA's Sunken Garden, in front of the historic Turrets building in the center of campus, has been degrading for many years. This spring, COA seniors Dakota Strassner and Tim Brubaker will be restoring much of the garden - rebuilding walls and a drainage system as well as replanting native species and weeding out invasive ones. To help raise money, Reel Pizza is hosting a Valentine's Day screening of the movie IMAGINE ME AND YOU at 10:00 PM on Saturday, February 14th.  Donation $6.  This 2006 British comedy about a woman who, on the day of her wedding to a man, meets and begins to fall in love with a female florist, is being co-presented by Spectrum, COA's lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender support and activism group.  Major goals of the garden renovation plan are to restore the garden's beauty and make it more accessible to the public, while maintaining the feel of the garden as a somewhat wild relic from the past.  Please join us for an entertaining, inclusive evening and help support the preservation of part of our island's rich heritage. For more information, please contact Reel Pizza at lisa@reelpizza.net, Dakota Strassner at dstrassner@coa.edu, or Dan Mahler (president of Spectrum) at dmahler@coa.edu.


And here are the coming week's films

Friday February 13 - Monday February 16
VALKYRIE  (PG-13)   120min   5:30 and 8:00
Intelligent and engrossing, this historical drama recreates the real-life WW2 conspiracy about a plot within the highest ranks of Hitler's military command to assassinate their leader and restore Germany's good name.  Led by Col. Claus von Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise), a man who lost seven fingers and an eye fighting in North Africa, this group of co-conspirators, played by Kenneth Branagh, Tom Wilkinson, Bill Nighy, Terence Stamp, Eddie Izzard and Thomas Kretschmann, all have differing motives for wanting Hitler dead, and their allegiances shift even as they must keep their plan secret.  Director Bryan Singer (X-Men 1 & 2, Superman) reuniting with his The Usual Suspects screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie, has made a suspenseful and old-fashioned action adventure, presenting a complex scheme with clarity.

and

HOTEL FOR DOGS (PG)  100min  5:00 and 7:15
This adaptation of Lois Duncan's children's book is a smart, funny comedy adventure that shows how far love and imagination can take you. When their new foster parents forbid 16-year old Andi (Emma Roberts) and her younger brother, Bruce (Jake Austin) to have a pet, these orphans have to use their quick wit to help find a new home for their dog, Friday. The resourceful kids stumble upon an abandoned hotel and using Bruce's talents as a mechanical genius, transform it into a magical dog-paradise for their pooch – and eventually for all his friends. When barking dogs make the neighbors suspicious, Andi and Bruce use every invention they have to avoid anyone discovering "who let the dogs in."

then both change, to

Tues Feb 17 - Thurs Feb 19
THE BLACK BALLOON  (PG-13)  97min  5:30 and 7:45
This comic Australian coming of age drama, the autobiographical first feature from Elissa Down, is a hilarious heartwarming and honest account of growing up with an autistic brother.  Shy 15 year old Thomas (Rhys Wakefield) has just moved and must start at a new school.  He just wants to fit in and become friends with his goofy but gorgeous classmate Jackie.  But when his pregnant mother (Toni Collette) is ordered to bedrest, he must take care of his older autistic brother, whose unusual antics send Thomas on an emotional journey.  It is a funny and unsentimental but sympathetic and real story about fitting in and accepting your family.

and

INKHEART  (PG)  106min  5:00 and 7:15
Cornelia Funke's best-selling novel which celebrates the power of literature comes to life in this whimsical fantasy adventure film.  A young girl's father (Brendon Fraser) has discovered that he is a Silvertongue, with the power to bring characters from books to life by reading those books aloud, but he belatedly learns that when a character leaves the book, someone from this world must enter the book to take that character's place. When a power-hungry villain (Andy Serkis), escaped from a rare children's fable, kidnaps the man, his daughter bands with a group of friends both real and imagined to set things right.  Jim Broadbent, Helen Mirrin and Paul Bettany costar.