Blue Sky Icon TikTok Icon

Author Archive | Alex Kamody

Before Midnight

Watch Trailer Director: Richard Linklater
Writer(s): Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy
Awards: Sundance, SXSW and Tribeca Film Festival

In 1995, they won our hearts with the honesty of Before Sunrise. In 2004, that resonant magic was revisited in Before Sunset. Now, in the eagerly anticipated third chapter in the star-crossed tale of Jesse and Celine, Richard Linklater fast-forwards to nine years after the last meeting in what just may be the ending to the perfect trilogy.

Witty heartfelt dialogue seamlessly mixes with signature long takes to bring this couple to yet another crossroads in a twisting but passionate relationship. As Jesse and Celine have matured, so has their bond and candor, as familiarity, life’s ups and downs and time itself add refinement and a fresh lyrical quality to this most recent encounter.

Written by Linklater and leads Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke, the film casually and intelligently touches on matters big and small while the challenges of this relationship are spun with brilliant honesty, wit and humor. Richly captured by Christos Voudouris, the picturesque streets of Greece serve as the latest backdrop to this beautifully crafted love story. Linklater and his collaborators have clearly saved their best for last.
Check out the NPR story:

http://www.npr.org/2013/05/30/184269413/before-midnight-love-darkens-and-deepens

Share this Film

Click on Showtimes to Get Tickets Online
Running Time: 108 Minutes108 MIN
R Rated

Read full story · Comments { 0 }

Renoir

Watch Trailer Director: Gilles Bourdos
Writer(s): Gilles Bourdos
Cast: Michel Bouquet, Christa Theret, Vincent Rottiers

Set on the French Riviera in the summer of 1915, Gilles Bourdos’ lushly atmospheric drama RENOIR tells the story of celebrated Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, in declining health at age 74, and his middle son Jean, who returns home to convalesce after being wounded in World War I. The elder Renoir is filled with a new, wholly unexpected energy when a young girl miraculously enters his world. Blazing with life, radiantly beautiful, Andrée will become his last model, and the wellspring of a remarkable rejuvenation. At the same time, Jean also falls under the spell of the free-spirited young Andrée. Their beautiful home and majestic countryside grounds reverberate with familial intrigue, as both Renoirs, père et fils, become smitten with the enchanting and headstrong young muse.

“A lush, involving film that deals not with one Renoir but two, as well as the strong-minded woman who was a key player in both their lives.”-Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

Share this Film

Click on Showtimes to Get Tickets Online
Running Time: 111 Minutes111 MIN
R Rated

Read full story · Comments { 0 }

Beat the Heat: CORALINE

Watch Trailer Director: Henry Selick
Writer(s): Neil Gaiman, Henry Selick
Cast: Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Jennifer Saunders
Awards: Nominated for Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Animation

A young girl walks through a secret door and discovers a parallel reality that is eerily similar to the life she already knows, yet deeply unsettling in a number of ways, in director Henry Selick’s animated adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s international best-seller. Eleven-year-old Coraline Jones (voice of Dakota Fanning) is fearlessly courageous, and perhaps far too adventurous for her own good. Coraline and her parents (Teri Hatcher and John Hodgman) have recently relocated to Oregon from Michigan. Bored in her new home since her parents are distracted by work and she has yet to make any new friends, Coraline passes the time by exploring her new neighborhood with an annoying local boy named Wybie Lovat (Robert Bailey Jr.). But after paying a visit to her eccentric neighbors Miss Spink (Jennifer Saunders) and Miss Forcible (Dawn French), a pair of aging British actresses, and crossing paths with the outright weird Mr. Bobinsky (Ian McShane), the precocious young girl becomes convinced that her new surroundings are just as dull as she’d initially suspected. Shortly thereafter, Coraline discovers a hidden door in her new house, and decides to investigate. Venturing into the eerie passageway inside, Coraline emerges into an alternate version of her own reality. At first glance, this strange new world seems even better than the real thing; there her parents aren’t distracted by work, and Coraline is always the center of attention. There’s even a mysterious Cat (Keith David) that’s fascinated by her every move. But when Coraline’s button-eyed Other Mother (also Hatcher) attempts to make her stay permanent, the frightened young girl must summon her resourcefulness and bravery in order to find her way back home and save her real family.

Share this Film

Click on Showtimes to Get Tickets Online
Running Time: 100 Minutes100 MIN
PG Rated
This Film is Wheelchair Accessible

A gift to imagination.

David Denby
The New Yorker
Read full story · Comments { 0 }

Beat the Heat: THE DIARY OF A WIMPY KID

Watch Trailer Director: Thor Frudenthal
Writer(s): Jeff Kinney, Jackie Filgo
Cast: Zachary Gordon, Robert Capron and Rachael Harris

Hapless preteen Greg Heffley (Zachary Gordon) endures bullies, swirlies, morons, and wedgies while navigating the treacherous world of middle school and recording his traumas in his personal journal in this family-oriented comedy inspired by author Jeff Kinney’s best-selling series of illustrated novels. Try as he might, Greg just can’t understand who thought it was a good idea to place kids who haven’t even hit their first growth spurt in the same school as kids who get a five-o’clock shadow by lunch time. Realizing that he’ll have to get creative if he hopes to survive until high school, Greg concocts a series of get-cool-quick schemes that all go hopelessly awry. Despite the fact that he’s viewed as a dork by his peers, Greg never loses hope that someday, when all is said and done, he’ll be able to look back on his middle school experiences and laugh. Steve Zahn and Rachael Harris co-star in this comedy from Hotel for Dogs director Thor Freudenthal.

Share this Film

Click on Showtimes to Get Tickets Online
Running Time: 94 Minutes94 MIN
PG Rated
This Film is Wheelchair Accessible

It's nimble, bright and funny. It doesn't dumb down. It doesn't patronize. It knows something about human nature.

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
Read full story · Comments { 0 }

Beat the Heat: DOLPHIN TALE

Watch Trailer Director: Charles Martin Smith
Writer(s): Karen Janszen
Cast: Harry Connick Jr., Ashley Judd, Kris Kristofferson, Morgan Freeman

Dolphin Tale is inspired by the amazing true story of a brave dolphin and the compassionate strangers who banded together to save her life. Swimming free, a young dolphin is caught in a crab trap, severely damaging her tail. She is rescued and transported to the Clearwater Marine Hospital, where she is named Winter. But her fight for survival has just begun. Without a tail, Winter’s prognosis is dire. It will take the expertise of a dedicated marine biologist, the ingenuity of a brilliant prosthetics doctor, and the unwavering devotion of a young boy to bring about a groundbreaking miracle-a miracle that might not only save Winter but could also help scores of people around the world.

Share this Film

Click on Showtimes to Get Tickets Online
Running Time: 113 Minutes113 MIN
PG Rated

This is not only kid-friendly fare, but a lovely family movie.

Claudia Puig
USA Today
Read full story · Comments { 0 }

Mud

Watch Trailer Director: Jeff Nichols
Writer(s): Jeff Nichols
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Tye Sheridan, Jacob Lofland and Sam Shepard
Awards: Official Selection at Cannes Film Festival

Mud is an adventure about two boys, Ellis and his friend Neckbone, who find a man named Mud hiding out on an island in the Mississippi. Mud describes fantastic scenarios-he killed a man in Texas and vengeful bounty hunters are coming to get him. He says he is planning to meet and escape with the love of his life, Juniper, who is waiting for him in town. Skeptical but intrigued, Ellis and Neckbone agree to help him. It isn’t long until Mud’s visions come true and their small town is besieged by a beautiful girl with a line of bounty hunters in tow.

“Mud is steeped in a sense of place, and the people inhabiting it. Southern. Superstitious. Suspenseful. Sublime.”-Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

“It’s hard to believe Nichols thinks he can get away with all this and harder still to believe he does.”-David Edelstein, New York Magazine”Writer/director Jeff Nichols creates richly realized characters in a tale that moves like a cottonmouth viper, advancing slowly until it strikes with sudden violence.”-Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

Share this Film

Click on Showtimes to Get Tickets Online
Running Time: 130130 MIN
PG-13 Rated

Read full story · Comments { 0 }

The Iceman

Watch Trailer Director: Ariel Vromen
Writer(s): Morgan Land
Cast: Michael Shannon, Winona Ryder, Chris Evans, Ray Liotta, James Franco
Awards: Capri Breakout Director Award to Ariel Vromen

The true story of Richard Kuklinski, the notorious contract killer believed to have murdered over a hundred people while maintaining a seemingly normal life with his wife and children.

“Michael Shannon’s mesmerizing portrayal of Richard Kuklinski, a notorious contract killer, has the paradoxical quality, peculiar to many great screen performances, of being unreadable and transparent.”-Stephen Holden, New York Times

“Shannon could be looking at an Oscar nomination. His performance is that stone-cold good.”-Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine

Share this Film

Click on Showtimes to Get Tickets Online
Running Time: 106 Minutes106 MIN
R Rated

Read full story · Comments { 0 }

Trance

Watch Trailer Director: Danny Boyle
Writer(s): Joe Ahearne, John Hodge
Cast: James McAvoy, Vincent Cassel and Rosario Dawson

Simon (James McAvoy), a fine art auctioneer, teams up with a criminal gang to steal a Goya painting worth millions of dollars, but after suffering a blow to the head during the heist he awakens to discover he has no memory of where he hid the painting. When physical threats and torture fail to produce answers, the gang’s leader Frank (Vincent Cassel) hires hypnotherapist Elizabeth Lamb (Rosario Dawson) to delve into the darkest recesses of Simon’s psyche. As Elizabeth begins to unravel Simon’s broken subconscious, the lines between truth, suggestion, and deceit begin to blur.

“Mr. Boyle is a flamboyant visual stylist with a punk rocker’s delight in anarchic jolts. His is a cinema of attraction and repulsion.”- Manohla Dargis, New York Times

Share this Film

Click on Showtimes to Get Tickets Online
Running Time: 101 Minutes101 MIN
R Rated

Read full story · Comments { 0 }

Happy Feet: Kid’s Movie after KidFest!

Into the world of the Emperor Penguins, who find their soul mates through song, a penguin is born who cannot sing. But he can tap dance something fierce!

Price of Admission is an article of children’s clothing–gently used please!Happy Feet

 

Share this Film

Click on Showtimes to Get Tickets Online

Read full story · Comments { 0 }

Emperor

Watch Trailer Director: Peter Webber
Writer(s): Vera Blasi
Cast: Matthew Fox, Colin Moy and Tommy Lee Jones

As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, Gen. Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S.

 

Share this Film

Click on Showtimes to Get Tickets Online
Running Time: 105 Minutes105 MIN
PG-13 Rated

Read full story · Comments { 0 }