Here is the update of films with times showing at Reel Pizza for this
coming week starting Friday 10/2. In case you forgot what they are about,
the descriptions are farther below.
See you soon~
-Lisa and Chris
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Fri 10/2 - Thurs 10/8
DISTRICT 9 (R) 113min 5:30 and 8:00
Fri 10/2 - Mon 10/5
COLD SOULS (PG-13) 101min 6:00 and 8:15
Tues 10/6 - Thurs 10/8
THE COVE (PG-13) 92min 6:00 and 8:15
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DISTRICT 9 (R) 113min
Written and directed by visual effects artist Neill Blomkamp and produced
by Peter Jackson, this imaginative, bold film is a humans-vs-aliens
science fiction where the aliens are the good guys. Action-packed, this
ambitious, satisfying popcorn flick features special effects that support
a poignant, smart story instead of being the story. Three decades ago, a
huge spaceship broke down over Johannesburg where it still hovers. The
crustacean-like inhabitants, derogatorily called prawns by the humans,
were relocated to a refugee camp where they remain crammed in ghetto
conditions. Wimpy but racist bureaucrat Wikus van der Merwe (new actor
Sharlto Copley) head of security charged with removing the aliens to an
even more remote camp and discovering the secret of their weapons, becomes
infected by an alien virus, and discovers he has become a wanted man.
COLD SOULS (PG-13) 101min
Perfectly cast, Paul Giamatti stars as a neurotic actor (named Paul
Giamatti) who is having difficulty with his latest role as Chekhov's Uncle
Vanya. His agent tells him about a local soul storage facility (run by
David Strathairn), which can temporarily extract and store souls, leaving
one trouble free. Which is what happened, for a while, but when he
decides he needs his soul back, he discovers that it has been sold on the
Russian black market to a soap opera actress hoping to improve her career
(and thinking it was the soul of Al Pacino,) and Giamatti must travel to
St. Petersburg to try and get his soul back. New director Sophie Barthes
has made a clever, surreal and funny comedy.
THE COVE (PG-13) 92min
Beautiful fishing village Taiji, Japan has a nasty secret that the town
fathers are loathe to make public. Every fall, they herd dolphins and
other small cetaceans into a pen and, after selecting the best bottlenose
dolphins to sell to aquariums, they slaughter the rest for food, despite
the meat being toxically high in mercury. Director and celebrated 18-year
National Geographic veteran photographer Louis Psihoyos works
clandestinely with internationally recognized dolphin expert Ric O'Barry
(who once trained animals for the TV show, Flipper), free-diving champion
Mandy Rae Cruickshank, and others to uncover the covert operations that
occur in a secluded cove guarded by fishermen and barbed wire. This
astounding piece of investigative journalism that unfolds like an action
thriller follows the filmmakers as they covertly discover the truth about
the dolphin capture trade. Widely acclaimed as a front-runner for the
Oscar-documentary prize, this important, compelling film has put
international pressure on the Japanese to stop their brutal business.
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