As promised, here is the schedule of Reel Pizza events from April 10 - 30.
Seems like summer is just around the corner! Please note our special
presentation on Sunday April 26th, and the family friendly films coming
for spring vacation week. Happy Spring to all.
SPECIAL PROGRAMMING:
Sunday April 26th at 2pm
ADDICTED TO PLASTIC (NR) 85min
This smart, funny, and illuminating film, presented by the Bar Harbor
Conservation Commission, examines plastic pollution around the world. This
point-of-view style documentary from Canadian filmmaker Ian Connacher
encompasses three years of filming in 12 countries on 5 continents,
including two trips to the middle of the Pacific Ocean where plastic
debris accumulates. The film details plastic's path over the last 100
years and provides a wealth of expert interviews on practical and cutting
edge solutions to recycling, toxicity and biodegradability. Informative as
it is entertaining, this film leaves viewers with a hopeful perspective
and charged to take action and equipped with fun and simple solutions to
combat worldwide plastic pollution. We will have a panel discussion after
the film.
OUR REGULAR SCHEDULE:
Friday 4/10 - Mon 4/13
REVOLUTIONARY ROAD (R) 119min
Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio stars as husband and wife in this
powerful story of 1950's suburban dysfunction, directed by her husband Sam
Mendes (American Beauty). Based on the celebrated 1961 novel by Richard
Yates, this young urban couple meets at a party, fall in love, get
married, move to Connecticut and start a family. On the outside, they
seem to have the perfect house, family and marriage, and their realtor
(Kathy Bates) introduces them to her mentally unstable son (Michael
Shannon) as an example of normalcy. But underneath, he hates his
meaningless desk job and she feels trapped as a mother and housewife.
Then she comes up with a plan to give it all up and move the family to
Paris. This is a riveting film with remarkable performances whose meaning
still has resonance today.
Tues 4/14 - Thurs 4/16
TWO LOVERS (R) 108min
Set in an insular Brooklyn neighborhood, this classic romantic drama,
directed by James Grey (Little Odessa) is elegant and genuine. Joaquin
Phoenix (Walk the Line), reportedly in his final acting role, gives a raw
and vulnerable performance as a charismatic but troubled young man who has
moved back home following a recent heartbreak. While recovering under his
parent's watchful eyes (Isabella Rossellini and Moni Monoshov), Leonard
soon meets two women: a mysterious and beautiful neighbor (Gwyneth
Paltrow) who is exotic and out-of-place in Leonard's staid world, and the
lovely and caring daughter of a businessman who is buying out his family's
dry-cleaning business (Vinessa Shaw). Leonard struggles with his
impossible decision – between the impetuousness of desire and the comfort
of love without falling back into the darkness that nearly killed him.
++++++++++++++++++++++
Fri 4/17 - Mon 4/20
TAKEN (PG-13) 91min
Liam Neeson (Kinsey) stars in this riveting, entertaining revenge thriller
from screenwriter Luc Besson (La Femme Nikita, The Transporter) and
cinematographer turned director Pierre Morel (District B-13). Neeson is
unexpectedly great as a former CIA secret agent and divorced dad who
retired into doing special security jobs so he could spend more time with
his teenaged daughter. She finagles an unsupervised trip to Europe with
her girlfriend, but upon their arrival in Paris, they are promptly
abducted. Dad's particular skills are essential to finding them before
they are sold into an Albanian sex-slave ring and lost forever. It's a
briskly-paced, adrenaline-fueled action adventure and a perfectly mindless
popcorn flick.
Tues 4/21 - Thurs 4/23
CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC (PG) 104min
Director PJ Hogan (Muriel's Wedding, My Best Friend's Wedding) has turned
the two best-selling novels by Sophia Kinsella into an infectious,
screwball fantasy-romantic comedy. Comic actress Isla Fisher (Wedding
Crashers) is Rebecca, a charming young woman who loves buying designer
clothes, but isn't exactly paying for them out of cash flow. She dreams
of a job writing for a fashion magazine, but instead lands a column at a
struggling financial magazine dispensing financial advice, which turns her
into an instant celebrity despite her lack of appropriate skills. She
begins to fall for her boss (Hugh Dancy), but her compulsive habits could
ruin her career and her new romance.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Fri 4/24 - Mon 4/27
RACE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN (PG) 98min
Fun and engaging, this latest live-action Disney release is a
science-fiction adventure that only loosely resembles the original 1975
film. Dwayne Johnson (Game Plan) is a Las Vegas cabbie with a shady past
who picks up two teens (AnnaSophia Robb, Bridge to Terebithia, and
Alexander Ludwig) who are actually aliens from another world with
extraordinary superpowers. Chased by a variety of villains both human and
extraterrestrial, they team up with a discredited physicist (Carla Gugino)
who tries to help the kids return to their home and maybe also save the
Earth at the same time.
Tues 4/28 - Thurs 4/30
THE CAKE EATERS (NR) 95min
Actress Mary Stuart Masterson (Fried Green Tomatoes) makes her feature
directorial debut with a quirky and textured small town drama that
explores the lives of two interconnected families as they confront old
ghosts and discover love in the face of devastating loss. This
intricately woven and powerfully poignant film features a standout
performance by Kristen Stewart (Twilight) as a teenager who finds love
with a shy young man named Beagle, while her grandmother continues a
long-time romance with Beagle's father (Bruce Dern) after his wife dies.
This rewarding independent film with its excellent ensemble cast is full
of delightful small moments that elevate it into the sweet, intelligent
film that it is.
++++++++++++++++++++++++
COMING ON OUR SECOND SCREEN?
MONSTERS VS ALIENS (PG) 94min
When a California girl (Reese Witherspoon) is unwittingly clobbered by a
meteor full of outer space gunk on her wedding day, she mysteriously grows
to 49-feet-11-inches tall and is captured and secreted away to a covert
government compound where she is renamed Ginormica and placed in
confinement with a ragtag group of other monsters. Their confinement is
cut short, however, when a mysterious alien robot lands on Earth and
begins storming the country, and the President is persuaded to enlist
these motley monsters to combat it to save the world from imminent
destruction. With an all-star vocal cast, including Steve Colbert,
Keifer Sutherland, Will Arnett, Seth Rogan and Rainn Wilson, this family
friendly animated film is very witty and visually delightful.
DUPLICITY (PG-13) 125min
Screenwriter (of the Bourne series) and director Tony Gilroy follows up
his multi-Oscar-nominated directing debut, Michael Clayton, with a smart,
lighthearted and funny spies-in-love romantic thriller. His sharp,
articulate dialog is excellently presented by Julia Roberts and Clive Owen
(both in Closer). They play former government operatives with a shared
history, now working for competing pharmaceutical companies; one CEO
highly covets a super-secret personal care formula developed by the other.
Paul Giamatti and Tom Wilkinson are both hilarious as the rival corporate
tycoons. When these two loners find themselves embroiled in a high-stakes
espionage game, they discover the toughest part of the job is deciding how
much to trust the one you love.
KNOWING (PG-13) 121min
This gripping action-thriller of global proportions follows a professor
(Nicholas Cage) who stumbles on terrifying predictions about the
future—and sets out to prevent them from coming true. He makes the
startling discovery that an encoded message in a recently opened time
capsule predicts with pinpoint accuracy the dates, death tolls and
coordinates of every major disaster of the past 50 years. As he further
unravels the document's chilling secrets, he realizes the document
foretells three additional events—the last of which hints at destruction
on a global scale and seems to somehow involve himself and his son. After
attempts to alert the authorities fall on deaf ears, he undertakes a heart
pounding race to try to prevent more destruction from taking place.
SUNSHINE CLEANING (R) 91min
A single mom and her slacker sister find an unexpected way to turn their
lives around in this off-beat dramatic comedy. Desperate to get her young
son into a better school, Rose (Amy Adams, Enchantement) convinces her
younger sister (Emily Blunt, The Devil Wears Prada), who still lives at
home with their always scheming Dad (Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine),
into going into business together in the crime scene cleanup business.
This spirited and uplifting film about an average family that finds the
path to its dreams in an unlikely setting, directed by Christine Jeffs
(Sylvia), is heartfelt and totally entertaining.
ADVENTURELAND (R) 107min
It's the summer of 1987, and James Brennan (Jesse Eisenberg, The Squid and
the Whale), an uptight recent college grad, can't wait to embark on his
dream tour of Europe. But when his parents announce they can no longer
subsidize his trip, James unenthusiastically takes a lowly job at a local
amusement park. His summer will now be populated by belligerent dads,
stuffed pandas, and screaming kids high on cotton candy. Luckily, what
should have been his worst summer ever turns into quite an adventure as he
discovers love in the most unlikely place with his captivating co-worker
(Kristen Stewart, Twilight), and learns to loosen up. This new film was
written and directed by Greg Mottola (Superbad) based on his own
experiences.
++++++++++++++++++++++
Coming Next Schedule?
X-MEN: WOLVERINE
STATE OF PLAY
STAR TREK
THE SOLOIST
SECRET OF THE GRAIN
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ABSURDISTAN
AZUR AND ASMAR
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