[Reel Pizza] update Oct 15 - 21

Ack!  Between getting the next schedule to the printer and hosting the MDIHS Senior Class yesterday for their Social Responsibility program, this got away from me. 

We are departing the text, as it were.  This coming week's week-long movie is brand-new, not previously promoted, and looks like fun.  The films we haven't gotten to on our current schedule are all booked for the next.  I will be sending the next schedule shortly.

See you soon!
-Lisa


Here is the program at Reel Pizza for the next week. 

Fri 10/15 - Thurs 10/21 RED  (PG-13)  111min  6:00 and 8:30
Fri 10/15 - Mon 10/18   FLIPPED (PG)  90min  5:30 and 7:45
Tues 10/19 - Thurs 10/21         BEETLE QUEEN CONQUERS TOKYO  (NR)  89min  5:30 and 7:45



Fri Oct 15 - Thurs Oct 21
RED  (PG-13)  111min  6:00 and 8:30
Helen Mirren regally shoots her semi-automatic machine gun in this spirited new action comedy from director Robert Schwentke (The Time Traveler�s Wife, Flight Plan).  She is one of a group of retired top CIA agents (also including Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, and John Malkovich) who have been abruptly and rudely targeted for assassination because of what they know.  They undertake a cross-country mission to save themselves, staying one step ahead of their pursuers, all the way to the CIA�s secret headquarters.  Based on the DC Comics cult graphic novel, this is a charming, slightly loopy, and just plain fun spy adventure.

Fri Oct 22 - Mon Oct 18
FLIPPED (PG)  90min  5:30 and 7:45
Ever since Bryce moved to town in second grade, his independent schoolmate and neighbor across the street, Juli, has been totally smitten.  For the past six years, Bryce has done everything he can to keep her and her crazy ideas out of his world.  Now they are in eighth grade and he is, maybe, starting to see Juli with a new-found appreciation, while she�s totally pre-occupied with saving old trees in her neighborhood, and has perhaps finally lost her earlier enchantment with him.  Showing the story from the polar-opposite perspectives of both teens, as did author Wendelin Van Draanan in her 2003 young adult novel, director Rob Reiner (Stand By Me, When Harry Met Sally) brings an old-fashioned sensibility to this sweet and winning film.

Tues Oct 19 - Thurs Oct 21
BEETLE QUEEN CONQUERS TOKYO  (NR)  89min  5:30 and 7:45
Working backwards through history, this beautifully filmed and fascinating documentary explores the mystery of Japan�s rich and enriching love affair with bugs, while other cultures developed an almost universal and profound fear of insects.  Using insects like an anthropologist�s toolkit, filmmaker Jessica Oreck, a docent and animal caretaker at the American Museum of Natural History in NY, reveals a web of influences behind this captivation, from modern day where live insects can be bought in vending machines and in specialty shops for enormous sums, back to the first cricket selling businesses in the 1800�s, to the stories of the fabled first emperor who named Japan �the island of the dragonflies.�  In the quest to discover the basis of this fascination, she explores Japanese philosophies that could shift our Western perspectives on nature, beauty, life, and even the seemingly mundane realities of our day-to-day routines.