Friday, October 10, 2014

[Reel Pizza] update Oct 10 - 16

hi everyone
Here is the plan for tonight thru next Thursday.  Enjoy this beautiful fall weather.  I will be sending out the next full schedule shortly.
-Lisa


Fri Oct 10 -
Thurs Oct 16
A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES  (R)  114min 6:00 and 8:30
Liam Neeson stars in this thrilling adaptation of Lawrence Block’s bestselling series of mystery novels.  He plays a ex-NYPD cop who now works as an unlicensed private eye operating just outside the law.  When he reluctantly agrees to help a heroin trafficker (Dan Stevens) hunt down the men who kidnapped and murdered his wife, the PI learns that this is not the first time these men have committed this sort of twisted crime… nor will it be the last.  He races to track the deviants through the backstreets of New York City before they kill again.  Screenwriter Scott Frank (The Wolverine, Minority Report, Out of Sight) directs.   trailer


Fri Oct 10 - Mon Oct 13
WHAT IF  (PG-13)  102min   5:30 and 8:00
Released around the world as The F Word (as in “friend”) this fresh and funny romantic comedy looks at the perils of platonic friendship.  Daniel Radcliffe stars as med-school dropout Wallace whose love life is on hold while his that of his roommate (Adam Driver, TV’s Girls) is roaring.  Then he meets Chantry (Zoe Kazan, Ruby Sparks), but even while there’s an instant an obvious attraction, she is happy in a long-time relationship with Ben (Rafe Spall, Prometheus).  Based on the play Toothpaste and Cigars, this believable and irresistible film is directed by Canadian Michael Dowse.  trailer

Tues Oct 14 - Thurs Oct 16
MAY IN THE SUMMER  (R)  99min  [partly in Arabic with subtitles]  5:30 and 8:00
May is a successful NYC-based author of American and Jordanian heritage engaged to an expat Palestinian scholar teaching at Columbia.  When she returns to Amman to prepare for her wedding, the cracks in her perfect-seeming life begin to show.  Her headstrong, born-again Christian mother (Hiam Abbass) disapproves of her daughter’s fiancé, and when her estranged father (Bill Pullman) attempts to make amends, her two younger sisters start acting like rebellious teens.  She begins to question the path she is choosing.  This fresh, exotic look at a woman caught between tradition and choice stars and is directed and was written by Cherien Dabis (Amreeka).   trailer

 

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