[Reel Pizza] update Jan 11 - 17

hi everyone

Here are the titles and times for this next week at Reel Pizza.
The Senior Matinee for Thurs 1/10 is FLIGHT at 1:00pm... be sure to say "Happy Birthday" to your projectionist!

Starting Friday we will be showing THE HOBBIT and THE SESSIONS and A ROYAL AFFAIR.
The next full schedule will be headed your way shortly.

See you soon!
-Lisa



Fri - Thurs    1/11 - 1/17    THE HOBBIT (PG-13)  168min  5:00 and 8:30
Fri - Mon     1/11 - 14    THE SESSIONS  (R)  98min  5:30 and 7:45
Tues - Thurs    1/15 - 1/17    A ROYAL AFFAIR   (R)  137min  [in Danish with subtitles]    5:30 and 8:15

Fri Jan 11 - Thurs Jan 17
THE HOBBIT  (PG-13)  169min
Director Peter Jackson returns to Middle Earth, adapting JRR Tolkien’s prequel to the Lord of the Rings, and making the first remarkable and entrancing part of what will become a trilogy of films.  Here we are introduced to a young Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) a sedentary hobbit with no sense of adventure who is cajoled by wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen reprising his LOTR role) and thirteen dwarves to leave his comfortable hobbit hole and participate in a burgling of a vicious dragon who long ago took over the elves’ mountain home and its treasure.  On the journey fraught with peril he wins a certain ring from a curious creature he meets, Gollum (Andy Serkis, also reprising).  

Fri Jan 11 - Mon Jan 14
THE SESSIONS  (R)  98min
Journalist and poet Mark O’Brien (in a remarkable performance by versatile actor John Hawkes in a totally different role from either his previous Winter’s Bone or Martha Marcy May Marlene), suffers from polio and has spent his life since he was six confined to an iron lung.  Still a virgin at aged 38 he is determined (before he passes his sell-by date) to discover an inherently human experience, consensual sex.  After receiving the (quite funny) blessing of his priest (William H Macy), he engages the services of a professional and forthright sex therapist (Helen Hunt) who has dealt with disabled people before, but none like Mark.  Based on a published article by the real Mr. O’Brien in 1990, writer-director and polio sufferer Ben Lewin has made an honest, uplifting and unforgettable film.

Tues Jan 15 - Thurs Jan 17
A ROYAL AFFAIR   (R)  137min  [in Danish with subtitles]
This sumptuous historical costume drama tells the fascinating true story of Denmark’s unlikely transition from a feudal state run by nobles clinging to their religion into an Enlightened country in the 18 th century.  Writer-director Nikolaj Arcel, who wrote the Swedish Girl with a Dragon Tattoo, brings this story to vibrant, intelligent life.  British Princess Caroline (Alicia Vikander, Anna Karenina) is married off to her cousin, King Christian of Denmark (Mikkel Boe Følsgaard) sight unseen; it doesn’t take long for her to realize he is juvenile and possibly insane.  When the king brings German physician Johann Struensee into their lives, both their worlds change.