Column By JIM O’DONNELLReel Deal Tuesday’s are back! All movies, all day Tuesday, are only $6.50! Holidays, winter and summer break are excluded.
This week we are opening The Equalizer, The Judge, and Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. We will hold Gone Girl for another week. The Boxtrolls, This is where I Leave You, and The Maze Runner will end this Thursday.
I saw Gone Girl last night. Wow. It’s one of the very few films I’ve seen that a runtime of 2 1/2 hours is no problem. Gone Girl is twisted, riveting, unpredictable, and masterfully done. Both Ben Affleck and the beautiful Rosamund Pike throw down stellar performances and I’m willing to wager there will be an Oscar nomination for one or both of them.
By the way, there is an app called “Run Pee” that will tell you the best times to go to the restroom for almost any film and for a long film such as this, it is a useful tool.
Movie poster for ‘The Equalizer.’ Courtesy/Reel Deal Theater
In The Equalizer, Denzel Washington plays McCall, a man who believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when McCall meets Teri (Chloë Grace Moretz), a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can’t stand idly by – he has to help her. Armed with hidden skills that allow him to serve vengeance against anyone who would brutalize the helpless, McCall comes out of his self-imposed retirement and finds his desire for justice reawakened. If someone has a problem, if the odds are stacked against them, if they have nowhere else to turn, McCall will help. He is The Equalizer. (c) Sony
Movie poster for ‘Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.’ Courtesy/Reel Deal Theater
Disney’s “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day” follows the exploits of 11-year-old Alexander (Ed Oxenbould) as he experiences the most terrible and horrible day of his young life – a day that begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by one calamity after another. But when Alexander tells his upbeat family about the misadventures of his disastrous day, he finds little sympathy and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him. He soon learns that he’s not alone when his mom (Jennifer Garner), dad (Steve Carell), brother (Dylan Minnette) and sister (Kerris Dorsey) all find themselves living through their own terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. Anyone who says there is no such thing as a bad day just hasn’t had one. (c) Disney
Movie poster for ‘The Judge.’ Courtesy/Reel Deal Theater
In “The Judge,” Robert Downey Jr. stars as big city lawyer Hank Palmer, who returns to his childhood home where his estranged father, the town’s judge (Robert Duvall), is suspected of murder. He sets out to discover the truth and along the way reconnects with the family he walked away from years before. — (C) Warner Bros.
Coming attractions include: Fury, Book of Life, Interstellar, Nightcrawler, Big Hero Six, Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, The Hobbit , Into the Woods, and Wild (based on the book by Cheryl Strayed.)
Note: Do not trust other websites for Reel Deal Theater movie times as they are often incorrect and we’ve been getting a lot of confused patrons who use these random sites including Google. For correct show times, visit www.reeldealtheater.com or use the Los Alamos Daily Post listings for show times. If you have any requests, email me at odonnell455@gmail.com and I will respond when I know something.
Don’t forget, if it’s your birthday, the movie of your choice is free!
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