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“Unbroken” shows the very best and the very worst humans do to one another in times of war.

It is the true story of an ordinary American soldier who, before the war, was an extraordinary Olympic runner. Flashbacks show his journey to greatness from early childhood attempts at being a hoodlum.

Louis Zamperini was the son of Italian immigrants living in Torrance, Calif. His older brother encouraged him to channel his anger at bullies into working hard at running. He ran in high school, broke speed records and represented the U.S. at the Berlin Olympics in 1936. Most Read More

“Into the Woods” is a Broadway musical by Stephen Sondheim brought to film by Director Rob Marshall and Disney Studio. The music is often jaunty, sometimes catchy, with thoughtful, introspective lyrics.

This musical is a fairy tale parodying fairy tales. It is a satire, exploring the role of “Prince Charming” in the dreams of young females as well as the hopes of prospective princesses.

The storyline pulls together the fairy tales of Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk and Rapunzel with an original story about a baker and his wife who have Read More

We are holding The Hobbit, Wild, Into the Woods and Night at the Museum for another week.

We have been working on our broken projector for almost two weeks now and hope to get it up and running today so we can finally show Night at the Museum.

It has been disappointing to only have three screens over the holidays, but hopefully we are close to a solution.

Just after the holidays, we will open Unbroken, American Sniper, The Imitation Game, Paddington, Big Eyes, The Wedding Ringer, Mortdecai, and Homesman.

“Into the Woods” is Read More

“The Imitation Game” is a tight period piece, a biographical film about Alan Turing and the effort to crack the code of the Nazi’s Enigma machine in the Second World War. The machine changed its encryption every day at midnight, much faster than the cryptographers could solve. The film is quite compelling throughout and well acted, especially by the lead.

Benedict Cumberbatch plays Alan Turing in his every twitch and clueless glance. Turing was not only an obsessive-compulsive character and a genius, he was the type who is unable to pick up on social clues and who Read More

Thanks to our brilliant staff, we are open every day during the holidays, please check our schedule for showtimes!

On Christmas Day, Thursday, Dec. 25, we are opening Wild with Reese Witherspoon and Into the Woods (we got it!!!) starring Meryl Streep

We will hold The Hobbit and Night at the Museum.

As you probably already know, Sony has pulled The Interview (except for select screens) so we will not be showing it.

Just after the Holidays we will open Unbroken, American Sniper, The Imitation Game, Paddington, Big Eyes, The Wedding Ringer, Mortdecai Read More

“The Battle of the Five Armies” is the third in a trilogy of Peter Jackson films based on “The Hobbit,” a children’s novel by J. R. R. Tolkien. In the edition I have on my shelf, “The Hobbit” is just 287 pages long. For fans of Tolkien, using three chapters to tell the tale has prolonged the pleasure. For other less fanatic moviegoers, this film will at least be found entertaining.

It takes 144 minutes to tell the last 50 pages of the novel with this film. The producers wanted this last installment of the series to bridge the gap between the Hobbit and the Lord Read More

“Exodus: Gods and Kings,” Director Ridley Scott’s take on the epic Bible story of the Exodus, will not be replacing “The Ten Commandments” anytime soon. Or as my husband said, exiting the theater, “Cecil B. DeMille’s legacy is safe.”

Exodus: Gods and Kings is shot in dark tones and features a great many poorly lit scenes. The visuals are as ominous as the score. Some of the lines are mumbled. The finer details are lost in the murkiness on the screen. Perhaps that is all intentional. We never quite know what is going on in these shadows. And Moses never quite knows what Read More