Thursday, May 23, 2013
Opening This Week
Friday Night Lights (PG-13)
A straight shooting coach (Billy Bob Thorton) leads his team to the 1988 Texas state semifinals in a declining West Texas town. High expectations exact a toll on the athletes, as do economic and racial tensions. An adaptation of an H.G. Bissinger's book by the same name.
A straight shooting coach (Billy Bob Thorton) leads his team to the 1988 Texas state semifinals in a declining West Texas town. High expectations exact a toll on the athletes, as do economic and racial tensions. An adaptation of an H.G. Bissinger's book by the same name.
Carmike 10, Chapel Hills 15, Cinemark 16, Tinseltown
Hawaii (NR)
A 1966 adaptation of James Michener's epic staring Max von Sydow and Julie Andrews.
All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, Fri., Oct. 8, 7 p.m.
Peter Pan (PG), Treasure Planet (PG)
Part of the library's All Pikes Peak Reads program.
Fountain City Hall Meeting Room, Saturday, Oct. 9, 1 p.m., free.
Raise Your Voice (PG)
A small town girl (Hilary Duff) spends a summer at a performing arts school in Los Angeles, encountering big city circumstances and romance that challenge her small town upbringing.
Carmike 10, Chapel Hills 15, Cinemark 16, Tinseltown
Riding Giants (PG-13)
A semiserious documentary, Riding Giants is a multigenerational insider's look at the origins of big wave surfing and its colorful, mostly subversive culture.
Kimball's Twin Peak
The Story of the Weeping Camel (PG)
One of a nomadic shepherd's family's camels has an excruciatingly difficult delivery but, with help from the family, out comes a rare white colt. The mother rejects the newborn, and in desperation, the family's two young boys set out on a journey through the desert in search of a musician who is their only hope for saving the colt's life. In Mongolian with English subtitles.
Kimball's Twin Peak
Taxi (PG-13)
A mouthy cab driver (Queen Latifah) has hot tips for a green cop (Jimmy Fallon) set on solving a string of bank robberies.
Carmike 10, Chapel Hills 15, Cinemark 16, Tinseltown
Team America: World Police (R)
Marionette superheroes fight to end terrorism and put tired celebrities out of their misery. This film has already garnered an official White House response, wherein the Bush administration objected to the film's "mocking the war on terror." With puppet sex.
Sneak Peaks on Saturday, October 9: Chapel Hills 15 at 7 p.m., Tinseltown at 7:30 p.m.
Treasure Island (NR)
Part of the library's All Pikes Peak Reads program.
Ruth Holly Branch Library, Tuesday, Oct. 12, 6 p.m., free.
