Thursday, March 26, 2009

Wood Theater

Brothers at War - Free Screening - Tonight, 6 p.m. (The Rademacher brothers) A thought-provoking look at one American family during turbulent times and a rare look at the bonds and service of our Soldiers on the front lines and the profound effects of their service on the loved ones they leave behind. Filmmaker Jake Rademacher embeds with four combat units in Iraq in order to understand the experience, sacrifice and motivation of his two brothers serving in Iraq. The film follows Jakes’s exploits as he risks his life to tell his brothers’ stories. Unprecedented access to U.S. and Iraqi combat units takes him behind the camouflage curtain with secret reconnaissance troops on the Syrian border, into sniper hide sites in the Sunni Triangle and through raging machine gun battles alongside the Iraqi Army. It also takes Rademacher back home, where separations and life-threatening work ripple through their parents’, siblings’, wives’ and children’s lives. Rated R (language and brief war images), 1 hr 50 mins.

Doubt (PG13) - Friday, 6 p.m. and Saturday, 8:30 p.m. (Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman) Father Flynn is trying to upend the school’s strict customs. The school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James shares with Sister Aloysius her suspicion that Father Flynn is paying too much attention to Donald, Sister Aloysius is galvanized to begin a crusade to both unearth the truth and expunge Flynn. Now, without proof or evidence except her moral certainty, Sister Aloysius locks into a battle of wills with Father Flynn, a battle that threatens to tear apart the church and school. Rated PG-13 (thematic material), 1 hr 44 mins.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (PG-13) - Friday, 8:30 p.m. and Sunday, 6 p.m. (Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett) “I was born under unusual circumstances.” And so begins “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like any of us, who is unable to stop time. We follow his story, set in New Orleans from the end of World War I in 1918, into the 21st century, following his journey that is as unusual as any man’s life can be. Rated PG-13 (war violence, sexual content, language, smoking), 2 hrs 47 mins.

Marley and Me (PG) - Saturday, 3:30 p.m. (Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston) Marley is a yellow lab adopted by John and his wife Jenny. Their idea was to give them a taste of parenthood, but the dog proved to be a hyperactive handful. He wreaks havoc, gets kicked out of obedience school, yet Marley quickly becomes a rollicking force of nature in their lives. Rated PG (thematic material, suggestive content, language), 1 hr 55 mins.
Bedtime Stories (PG) - Saturday, 6 p.m. and Sunday, 3:30 p.m. (Adam Sandler, Keri Russell) Hotel handyman Skeeter’s life is changed forever when the bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew start to come true. He attempts to take advantage of the phenomenon, incorporating his own aspirations into one outlandish tale after another, but it’s the kids’ unexpected contributions that turn Skeeter’s life upside down. Rated PG (rude humor, mild language), 1 hr 39 mins.

Paul Blart:  Mall Cop (PG) - Sunday, 1:30 p.m. (Kevin James, Jayma Mays) Paul is a single, suburban dad, trying to make ends meet as a security officer at a New Jersey mall. It’s a job he takes very seriously, though no one else does. When Santa’s helpers at the mall stage a coup, shutting down the megaplex and taking hostages, Jersey’s most formidable mall cop will have to become a real cop to save the day. Rated PG (violence, mild crude/suggestive humor, language), 2 hours 1 min.

He’s Just Not That Into You (PG-13) - Wednesday, 6 p.m. (Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Aniston) A group of interconnected, Baltimore-based, 20- and 30-somethings navigate their various relationships from the shallow end of the dating pool through the deep, murky waters of married life. Rated PG-13 (sexual content, strong language), 2 hrs 1 min.
Taken (PG-13) - Wednesday, 8:30 p.m. (Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace Bryan) A former secret agent relies on his old skills to save Kim, his 17-year-old estranged daughter, who has been forced into the slave trade. Using his contacts in the CIA and the business connections of his ex-wife’s husband, he travels to Paris to find her. Rate PG-13 (intense sequences of violence, disturbing thematic material, sexual content, drug references, language), 1 hour 31 mins.
Upcoming: He’s Just Not That Into You (PG-13) - Apr. 2, 8:30 p.m.; Apr. 3 and 4, 6 p.m. and Apr. 5, 3:30 p.m.; Paul Blart:  Mall Cop (PG) - Apr. 2 and 8, 6 p.m.; Apr. 4, 3:30 p.m.; Apr. 5, 1 p.m.; Taken (PG-13) - Apr. 3 and 4, 8:30 p.m.; Friday the 13th (R) - Apr. 5, 6 p.m.; Apr. 8, 8:30 p.m.