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Movie times – Big movie weekend for new releases and old favorites

Posted by Alex Wright on March 11, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

Photo from Debs via Flickr

Alice In WonderlandPhoto from Debs via Flickr

There is plenty to enjoy on the big screen this weekend in San Diego.

Starting with Tim Burton’s rendition of Alice in Wonderland you can enjoy several new releases.

Movies to look for are: Shutter Island, The Wolf-Man and Brooklyn’s Finest. To get all the new movie listings check your local theater and look for matinee specials.

Alice in Wonderland

AMC La Jolla (3D)- 11:35am | 2:10 | 4:45 | 7:20 | 9:55
Fashion Valley AMC – 11:00am | 12:45pm | 1:40pm | 3:30pm | 4:15pm | 6:15pm | 7:00pm | 9:00pm | 9:45pm and in 3D at 11:45am | 2:30pm | 5:15pm | 7:55pm | 10:30pm
Edwards Mira Mesa (3D) – 11:35am | 2:10 | 4:45 | 7:20 | 9:55 | 12:25am
But if you’re looking for something new, there are tons of new releases hitting the box office this Friday!

She is Out of my League
Comedy/Romance featuring Jay Baruchel and Alice Eve

Clairemont Town Square – 11:25am | 2:10pm | 4:30pm | 7:10pm | 9:40pm
Fashion Valley AMC – 10:30am | 1:15pm | 3:50pm 6:25pm | 9:00pm | 11:30pm
Mission Valley AMC – 10:20am | 11:15am | 1:05pm 2:00pm | 4:00pm | 4:45pm 6:40pm | 7:30pm | 9:25pm 10:15pm | Late Night: 12:05am

Green Zone
War Drama/Thriller featuring Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear, Brendan Gleeson, Amy Ryan, Khalid Abdalla, and Jason Isaacs Read more

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Oscar buzz – The Hurt Locker vs Avatar

Posted by Rhea Penaflor on March 7, 2010 · 1 Comment 

Will James Cameron be the King of the World again? Or would the biggest of Academy Awards go to a female director for the first time?

There are many ways The Hurt Locker and Avatar are pitted up against each other, but either way you look at it, both films have 9 nominations and are leading the Oscar buzz. This is how the competition breaks dow:

Action/Drama vs. Animation 3D
Kathryn Bigelow vs. her ex-husband, James Cameron
Low budget film vs. Blockbuster film
9 nominations vs. 9 nominations

The Hurt Locker

Photo from Mario Sundar via Flickr

Photo from Mario Sundar via Flickr

A catchy title for a film (title of the film is allegedly the idea of a disgruntled 38-year-old sergeant Jeffrey Sarver in the army’s Explosive Ordinance Disposal Team ), The Hurt Locker is a 131 minute-Action /Drama film by American Director Kathryn Bigelow who introduced a different genre in film (one will feel dizzy after watching the film as the camera keeps on moving unsteadily) set in post-invasion Iraq.  The story evolves a portrait of expert trained technicians of a bomb squad disarming roadside explosives on the streets of Baghdad.  The film received “universal acclaim” making Bigelow the fourth woman in history to be nominated by the Academy and only the second American woman to receive such honor. On Feb. 21, 2010 she won best director and the film Hurt Locker won best picture at the 63rd British Academy Film Awards.

The Hurt Locker was first shown at the Venice Film Festival in September 2008.  The film was released in the US in June 2009.  The film stars Jeremy Renner, Brian Geraghty and Anthony Mackie, with Guy Pearce, David Morse and Ralph Fiennes.

Bigelow won the Directors Guild of America award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures becoming the first woman to win the award. She also received a Golden Globe nomination for her direction. Read more

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Reading of ‘The Zero Hour’ at Diversionary

Posted by Jonathan Young on March 7, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

QT_Logoas Diversionary Theatre stages a reading of Madeleine George’s play The Zero Hour on Monday, March 8 at 7:30 p.m. (one night only). The reading is performed by Amanda Sitton and Jacque Wilke, and directed by Dan Kirsch, Diversionary’s Executive and Artistic Director.

The Zero Hour was developed at PlayLabs, New Dramatists, New York Theatre Workshop and O’Neill Playwrights Conference. O and Rebecca want love to be all they need, but the fact that Rebecca has not yet come out to her mother is threatening their happiness. Meanwhile, Rebecca’s classroom teachings of the Holocaust are seeping into her evening subway rides, in this tour-de-force with two actresses playing all the roles. Read more

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Fish Tank – A Film filled with Cruel Beauty directed by Andrea Arnold

Posted by Robert Patrick on March 5, 2010 · 1 Comment 

Mia (Katie Jarvis) isn’t a congenial 15-year-old girl. And while some of her peers may be wrapped in saccharine, bubbly as a spritzer, and without a hiccup in their buoyant step, Mia is the antithesis of adolescent glee. Teenage angst always exits, but here, in the world of director Andrea Arnold, the archetypical duality of perpetual confusion and intermittent happiness are traded in for total emotional dystopia: Mia has the demeanor of a nineteen-twenties bare knuckle boxer. Not average for a teen girl, but neither is her mercurial life.
Mia’s home is so checkered with yellowed walls and irresponsible parenting that, if someone looked in on her abysmal childhood, an outside party would cringe. Even Tyler (Rebecca Griffiths), her younger sister, curses with the acute consistency of an adolescent Joe Pesci.
The tone of “Fish Tank” is, because of its murmuring dependency on pulpy depression, often tiring and exasperating to watch. Often drowsy blues and omnipotent grays staple themselves to the walls around the film’s characters. Arnold’s examination of youthful despair, heightened by poverty and emotional abuse, is reminiscent of director Karen Moncrieff; a director whose visual work deals largely with callous relationships and decrepit social structures. You also get the feeling that Lynne Ramsay’s “Ratcatcher,” a story about a young boy’s childhood in the rueful landscape of Glasgow, where trash sprouts from the ground like tangled flowers, was an indirect influence.
Between binge drinking cider and breaking into vacant apartments, Mia ends up meeting Connor (Michael Fassbender), her mother’s unusually charming beau. Excavating the little civility Mia’s household has, Connor begins a skewed friendship with the volatile teen. The supercharged mouthiness of Mia begins to pop and wheeze, until it almost comes to a puttering stop, after Connor’s seemingly innocuous tutelage begins. As expected, Mia falls for him, and some rather serpentine twists transpire.
Mia’s primary interest in “Fish Tank” is a interest for urban dancing, which exists to fill up the hollow concave in her life with echoes of hope. In her times of vulnerability, destitute and malnourished, Mia plunks in old school hip-hop CDs into her boombox. Many times her face is sheathed by the hood of a sweatshirt, her movements making the fabric of her attire flimsily bob up and down, as she folds her body in elaborate contortions. The scene, one of questionable resonance on paper, proves to be exceptional filmmaking; plumes of clouds quell a furious sun in the distance, as our young protagonist attempts to ignite something equally as bright in her own soul.
The soundtrack of “Fish Tank” rattles with a jazzy hubris, inundating the unfiltered scenes of anxiety with songs from Gangstarr and Nas. The excessive snare and zipping patterns of rhyme create, like an informal glaze or decoupage, a way of encapsulating the only immediate structure in her life.
“Fish Tank” is a wholly internal experience that, days after watching it, grows on you in intangible ways. The film is filled with cruel beauty, restrained electricity, brooding melancholy. Andrea Arnold has truly crafted one of the more resounding pictures of the year thus far. At times difficult to watch, this picture is fluid poetry.
3.5/5
“Fish Tank” is now playing at Landmark’s Ken Cinema

FishTank_quad_800x600.255145213_stdMia (Katie Jarvis) isn’t a congenial 15-year-old girl. And while some of her peers may be wrapped in saccharine, bubbly as a spritzer, and without a hiccup in their buoyant step, Mia is the antithesis of adolescent glee.

Teenage angst always exists, but here, in the world of director Andrea Arnold, the archetypical duality of perpetual confusion and intermittent happiness are traded in for total emotional dystopia: Mia has the demeanor of a nineteen-twenties bare knuckle boxer. Not average for a teen girl, but neither is her mercurial life.

Mia’s home is so checkered with yellowed walls and irresponsible parenting that, if someone looked in on her abysmal childhood, an outside party would cringe. Even Tyler (Rebecca Griffiths), her younger sister, curses with the acute consistency of an adolescent Joe Pesci.

The tone of “Fish Tank” is, because of its murmuring dependency on pulpy depression, often tiring and exasperating to watch. Often drowsy blues and omnipotent grays staple themselves to the walls around the film’s characters. Read more

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Raw Emotion Explodes In ‘Independence’

Posted by Jonathan Young on March 5, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

Independence

An intriguing and powerful display, filled with desperation and love, a family’s soul emotionally unravels in Lee Blessing’s Independence. Opening March 5, this is the first dramatic play of the season for PowPAC, Poway’s Community Theatre.

The story focuses on a mother and her three daughters in the small town of Independence, Iowa. It’s the lifelong home of mother, Evelyn Briggs. Her oldest daughter, Kess, is a university professor in Minneapolis, but she has come home at the request of her sister, Jo who is concerned for her mother’s mental health. Kess feels the need to distance herself from her family because of the rejection of her lifestyle by her mother. Jo, Evelyn’s live-in caregiver, an incurable romantic and longtime virgin, has now become pregnant; while Sherry, salty-tongued and amoral, wants only to finish high school so she can leave home for good. As reconciliation seems out of reach, family members realize they must seek their own independence to survive. Read more

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