Thursday, October 15, 2009

Movies showing for Oct. 15

Now Showing—Wood Theater
The Time Traveler’s Wife - Tonight, 6 p.m. (Rachel McAdams, Eric Bana) Clare has been in love with Henry her entire life. Henry is a time traveler, cursed with a rare genetic anomaly that causes him to live his life skipping back and forth through his lifespan with no control. Despite the fact that Henry’s travels force them apart with no warning, Clare desperately tries to build a life with her one true love. Rated PG-13 (thematic elements, brief disturbing images, nudity & sexuality), 1 hr 48 mins.

District 9 - Tonight, 8:30 p.m. (Sharlto Copley, David James) A group of alien refugees, last survivors of their home world, is set up in a ghetto in South Africa called District 9 and administered by Multi-National United. The tension between the aliens and the humans comes to a head when an MNU field operative contracts a mysterious virus that changes his DNA, making him the most hunted and most valuable man in the world with the key to unlocking the secrets of alien technology. Rated R (bloody violence and pervasive language), 1 hr 52 mins.

Julie & Julia (PG-13) - Friday, Sunday, and Wednesday, 6 p.m. (Meryl Streep, Amy Adams) A frustrated temp secretary creates a popular blog about her trials and tribulations during a yearlong culinary quest to cook all 524 recipes in Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking.” The film also covers Child’s years in Paris during the 1940s and 1950s, with her foreign diplomat husband. Rated PG-13 (brief strong language, some sensuality), 2 hrs 3 mins.
The Final Destination (R) - Friday, 8:45 p.m., Saturday, 6 p.m.  (Bobby Campo, Shantel VanSanten) After convincing his friends to leave a racetrack mere seconds before his horrific vision of he and his friends dying in a freak accident comes true, the survivors start to meet increasingly grisly ends. Nick must figure out a way to escape his fate before death strikes again. Rated R (violence/terror, language), 1 hr 22 mins.

Ice Age:  Dawn of the Dinosaurs - Saturday and Sunday, 4 p.m. (Ray Romano, John Leguizamo) The sub zero heroes are back. On a mission to rescue the hapless Sid, the sloth, the gang ventures into a mysterious underground world, where they have some close encounters with dinosaurs, battle flora and fauna, run amuck and meet a relentless, one eyed, dino-hunting weasel named Buck. Rated PG (mild rude humor, peril), 1 hr 34 mins.

Gamer (R) - Saturday, 8 p.m. and Wednesday, 8:45 p.m. (Gerard Butler, John Leguizamo) Humans control other humans in mass-scale, multi-player online games. At the heart of the controversial games is its creator, a reclusive billionaire, whose latest game allows players to act out their most savage fantasies online, in front of a global audience, using real prisoners as avatars. Rated R (strong brutal violence throughout, sexual content, nudity, language), 1 hr 35 mins.

Up (PG) - Sunday, 2 p.m. (Edward Asner, Jordan Nagai) 78-year-old balloon salesman Carl finally fulfills his lifelong dream of a great adventure when he ties thousands of balloons to this house and flies away to the wilds of South America. But he discovers all too late that his biggest nightmare has stowed away on the trip: an overly optimistic 8-year-old Wilderness Explorer named Russell. Rated PG (some peril and action), 1 hr 36 mins.

Wood Theater is CLOSED Monday and Tuesday.

Upcoming: Gamer (R) - Oct. 22, 6 p.m.; The Final Destination (R) - Oct. 22, 8 p.m. and Oct. 23, 6 p.m.; Julie & Julia (PG-13) - Oct. 23, 8 p.m. and Oct. 25, 6 p.m.; G-Force (PG) - Oct. 24, 4 p.m. and Oct. 25, 3:30 p.m.; I Can Do Bad By Myself (PG-13) - Oct. 24 and 28, 6 p.m.; Inglourious Basterds (R) - Oct. 24 and 28, 8:30 p.m.; UP (PG) - Oct. 25, 1:30 p.m.; Wood Theater is CLOSED Oct. 26 and 27.