[Reel Pizza] Schedule May 25 - June 14

Greetings everyone

With the busy season nigh upon us, we are looking forward to the return of our summer regulars....The Sierra Club Environmental Sunday Matinee Film Series (our Third Year), and Late night Fun with IMPROVISION (our Fifth Year), which we hope excite you, plus a bit more Hollywood than usual in our regular lineup, which we hope you understand.  To all who are graduating this spring (hard to believe we have two moving from elementary school to high school (!)) we send our heartfelt Congratulations and wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors!  And, of course, we look forward to seeing you and your summer guests soon at the movies.

-Lisa and Chris
with Colin, Mark, Justine, Ellie, Julia, Sofia, Bridjit, Mary, Erik, Don, Branden and Danny

ps Please note on this pdf, the start time for the FORCE OF NATURE is listed as 1pm, it is really 2pm.  Please manually correct if you print it out!

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SPECIAL EVENTS

Friday June 1  IMPROVISION  11pm
So wrong, for all the right reasons!  Check out our occasional, wacky collaboration with the talented ImprovAcadia crew.  With the sound turned off, this ever-changing group of up-and-coming comedians improvise the dialogue, music tracks, and sound effects to a cheesy, grade B movie THAT THEY HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE!  Their talents make the pictures on the screen way funnier than they were ever anticipated.  It's a new show every time.  Don't miss out on all the fun!  (For your calendar, future dates are Sundays 7/22 & 8/19, and Fridays 9/7 & 10/12)

Sunday June 10  FORCE OF NATURE: The David Suzuki Movie  (NR)  2pm  FREE

Maybe the most inspiring, charming, eloquent, compelling voice for environmental sanity in the world today, geneticist David Suzuki is an icon, host of the long-running CBC show The Nature of Things and a pioneering and passionate environmentalist. This film, weaving together his last lecture with scenes from the places and events that shaped Suzuki's life, will inspire you by the thinking and enthusiasm of this scientist committed to helping people understand the importance of environmental impacts on life.  This film will be introduced by well-known nature writer, biologist and naturalist Harry Thurstone of Nova Scotia, the author of the newly published The Atlantic Coast, A Natural History. There will be a drawing for several copies of Mr. Thurston's new book.  The Maine Chapter of the Sierra Club presents this summer series at no cost to get people thinking about environmental issues.   (Future dates are July 8, Aug 12, Sept 16 and Oct tbd)

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Friday May 25 - Thursday May 31

DARK SHADOWS  (PG-13)  113min  6:00 and 8:30

Director Tim Burton and actor Johnny Depp reteam for another sure-to-be wacky film (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sweeney Todd, Alice in Wonderland). Depp stars as Barnabas Collins, arrived in America in 1752 with his parents and settling in Collinsport Maine.  But this rich, powerful playboy makes the grave mistake of breaking the heart of Angelique Bouchard, a witch, who turns him into a vampire and buries him alive.  He is inadvertently freed from his tomb two centuries later and finds his once grand estate in disrepair and the remnants of his family dysfunctional and harboring secrets of their own. Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter, Jackie Earle Haley, Jonny Lee Miller and Chloe Moretz co-star.

Friday May 25 - Monday May 28
THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS  (PG)  87min  5:30 and 7:45
Luxuriously coiffed, quite enthusiastic but less successful, and terribly underappreciated, Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant) has competed but never won the coveted Pirate of the Year award.  This year (1837) will be different!  With his ragtag crew and his beloved, big-boned parrot, he travels the seas seeking booty; adventures are forthcoming but from unexpected directions.  Gideon Defoe has adapted his own book, whose story’s witty, oddball sensibility is a perfect match for the stop-motion antics of Aardman director Pete Lord (Chicken Run, Wallace and Gromit).  It’s a visual treat and smashingly silly.

Tues May 29 - Thursday May 31

THE SALT OF LIFE  (NR)  90min  [in Italian with subtitles]  5:30 and 7:45

From the director-star of the delightful Mid-August Lunch comes another small gem. This gentle comedy again stars director Gionni DiGregorio who feels invisible to all the women in his life.  His aristocratic mother is spending his inheritance while his unaffectionate wife spends his pension.  He spends more time talking to his daughter’s slacker boyfriend than to his daughter.  He flirts with his wild young neighbor but she’s only glad he walks her dog. His best friend tells him to be a good Italian and get a mistress and Gionni tries his best to generate an extracurricular love-life with hilarious and poignant results. 

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Fri June 1 - Monday June 4 

THE THREE STOOGES (PG) 91min

The latest from brother directors Bobby and Larry Farrelly (Dumb and Dumber, There’s Something About Mary) is a heartfelt and perfectly executed tribute to the mid-20 th century dysfunctional trio of clowns and their convoluted mix of slapstick, punny vaudeville routines, and comic absurdity.  Divided into three episodes, much like their original short films, the stories follow Larry, Curley and Moe, troublemakers from an early age, at their home at the orphanage, and then out into the world when they must raise money to save the only home they have ever known from foreclosure.  Chris Diamantopoulos, Will Sasso and Sean Hayes fully inhabit their roles in this genuinely funny homage to these screen icons. 

Tuesday June 5 - Thursday June 7 

THE DEEP BLUE SEA  (R)  98min

Master chronicler of post-war England, pre-eminent British director Terence Davies (House of Mirth) guides Rachel Weisz in a career-defining performance as a woman whose overpowering live threatens her well-being, and alienates the men in her life.  Beginning with her botched suicide attempt, this riveting film, based on British playwright Terence Rattigan’s 1952 play, follows a day in the life of free-spirited Hester, informed by flashbacks to her relationships with her stodgy older judge husband (Simon Russell Banks) and a troubled but dashing RAF pilot (Tom Hiddleston).  

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Friday June 8 - Monday June 11 

THE FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT  (R)  124min

Star-writer Jason Segel and writer director Nicholas Stoller (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) reteam for this sweet and smart comedy about the long wait for an engaged couple to make their walk down the aisle.  Recently engaged, Tom gives up his good job as a chef in an upscale San Francisco restaurant so that his fiancée Violet (Emily Blunt) can attend a post-graduate program in Michigan; and they delay the wedding until they return home.  Two years pass while Tom works well below his potential in a sub shop, and Violet is excelling and wants to continue her program; they start to lose sight of what attracted themselves to each other in the first place. 

Tuesday June 12 - Thursday June 14 

MARLEY  (PG-13)  144min

Here is the definitive life story of the ground-breaking reggae musician and Rastafarian, from his early days on Jamaica through his rise to international stardom, to his death from cancer 31 years ago when he was just 36.  This ambitious and respectful film, made with the support and participation of his family from Oscar-winning director Kevin MacDonald (One Day in September, Last King of Scotland) celebrates Bob Marley’s spirit and creativity and features rare footage, incredible performances and revelatory interviews with the people who knew him best.

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COMING SOON ON OUR SECOND SCREEN?

SNOW WHITE & THE HUNTSMAN  (PG-13)  127min

This brand-new film turns the classic fairytale into an epic action adventures.  Charlize Theron is the evil queen out to destroy the fairest maiden in the land (Kristen Stewart).  But Snow White, rescued by the huntsman (Chris Hensworth) has been training in the arts of war with him.  Sam Claflin plays the prince enchanted by her beauty.

WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING  (PG-13)  110min

This light and fun comedy-drama from director Kirk Jones (Waking Ned Devine) stars Cameron Diaz, Anna Kendrick, Jennifer Lopez, and Elizabeth Banks as the moms-to-be;  Chris Rock, Dennis Quaid, Ben Falcone are the dads.  A high-octane celebrity couple find pregnancy demanding; a baby-crazy author gets a taste of her own militant mommy advice while her husband struggles not to be outdone by his competitive Dad, whose trophy wife is expecting twins; a woman is prepared to travel the globe to adopt a child, while her panicked husband attends a dudes support group; and rival food truck chefs' one-night stand results in an unexpected quandary.

MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS  (PG-13)  143min

This highly anticipated film brings together Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor and Captain America and friends (including Nick Fury and Black Widow) to save the world from Loki, Thor’s bitter brother who has stolen the Tesseract, a blue cube that gives its bearer unlimited power and a portal to outerspace.  Director/screenwriter Joss Whedon (Thor, Serenity) deftly balances all these superheroes, giving each a time to shine while also having a lot of smart and fast-paced fun with the story.

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COMING NEXT SCHEDULE? 
Madagascar 3  *Starts June 15*
Monsieur Lazhar
Damsels in Distress
Bernie
Jeff Who Lives At Home
Bully
Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Brave 
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