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Hugo

Feb19
2012
Leave a Comment Jason Written by Jason

Set in 1930s Paris, an orphan who lives in the walls of a train station is wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.

Running Time: 2hr. 6min.

MPAA Rating: PG-13

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

100
Boston Globe: Ty Burr

An exhilarating tale of magic, machines, memories, and dreams, Martin Scorsese pulls off the neatest trick of all. He marshals the marvels of modern movie technology – up to and including the dreaded 3-D – to create a love letter to the earliest of movies and, by extension, to every movie from then to now.

100
Variety:

In attempting to make his first film for all ages, Martin Scorsese has fashioned one for the ages. Simultaneously classical and modern, populist but also unapologetically personal, Hugo flagrantly defies the mind-numbing quality of most contempo kidpics.

100
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS: Elizabeth Weitzman

All the actors are wonderful, including Sacha Baron Cohen as a villainous Inspector.

100
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert

The way Hugo deals with Melies is enchanting in itself, but the film’s first half is devoted to the escapades of its young hero. In the way the film uses CGI and other techniques to create the train station and the city, the movie is breathtaking.

100
THE NEW YORKER: David Denby

Hugo is superbly playful.

91
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum

Hugo both ticks and flies by, a marvel meant to be pulled from the cabinet and enjoyed again and again.

90
The New York Times: Manohla Dargis

Waves of melancholy wash over the story and keep the treacle at bay, as do the spasms of broad comedy, much of it nimbly executed by Mr. Baron Cohen.

88
USA Today: Claudia Puig

Overall, however, the manner in which the film blends the tale of an imperiled boy and the history of cinema makes for an ambitious and fanciful ride.

88
ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers

Scorsese builds Hugo in the Méliès manner, creating a complete, ravishing Parisian world on a soundstage in England and reveling in the sheer transporting joy of it. Hugo will take your breath away.

75
Washington Post: Ann Hornaday

Strangely, Scorsese’s very passion for the subject matter turns out to be both a blessing and a curse for Hugo.

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Hunter S. Thompson Tribute Day

Feb13
2012
1 Comment Jason Written by Jason

Come join and celebrate the life of Hunter S. Thompson on February 20th, the anniversary of his death.

$1 off all micros.

We will be showing The Rum Diary at 9:30pm.

Posted in Speical Events

Tower Heist

Feb12
2012
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When a group of hard working guys find out they’ve fallen victim to a wealthy business man’s Ponzi scheme, they conspire to rob his high-rise residence.

Running Time: 1hr. 39min.

MPAA Rating: PG-13

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

75%
Boston Globe: Wesley Morris

Smoothly made and smart enough. It’s not going for too much, but I laughed a lot.

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70%
Village Voice: Nick Pinkerton

More than the marquee names, the second bananas keep the movie bobbing along: Broderick’s pharmaceutically vague hangdog act is perfect (“If you need me, I’ll be living in this box”), while Peña turns out to be a fine comedian, an enthusiastically yipping dumb puppy here.

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63%
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert

The movie is broad and clumsy, and the dialogue cannot be described as witty, but a kind of grandeur creeps into the screenplay by Ted Griffin and Jeff Nathanson.

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63%
Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea

Devoting more time to the setup than to the follow-through, Tower Heist doesn’t really build suspense so much as it builds impatience – for the thing to be over.

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63%
Washington Post: Ann Hornaday

An improbably satisfying action comedy.

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63%
ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers

There’s not much to say about a jerry-built caper comedy, except that this one has timeliness on it side, and some first-rate clowns.

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60%
LOS ANGELES TIMES: Betsy Sharkey

Tower Heist might not be a classic (it’s not), but at least for a little while it will make you laugh instead of cry about the current state of affairs, which is more than you can say about a lot of things.

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60%
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS: Elizabeth Weitzman

Boasts an unusually strong cast of actors, who boost the slick screenplay into a satisfying popcorn picture.

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58%
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum

Tower Heist is the cinematic version of a Trump property: overblinged, eye-catching, and essentially tacky.

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50%
WALL STREET JOURNAL: John Anderson

The type of film with which Mr. Ratner has claimed to be infatuated is itself like a caper – it requires precise execution. Tower Heist is more like that 10-story Snoopy, as he drunkenly bobs along Central Park West.

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The Rum Diary

Feb06
2012
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Tiring of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, journalist Paul Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local newspaper, The San Juan Star, run by downtrodden editor Lotterman. Adopting the rum-soaked life of the island, Paul soon becomes obsessed with Chenault, the wildly attractive Connecticut-born fiancée of Sanderson. Sanderson, a businessman involved in shady property development deals, is one of a growing number of American entrepreneurs who are determined to convert Puerto Rico into a capitalist paradise in service of the wealthy. When Kemp is recruited by Sanderson to write favorably about his latest unsavory scheme, the journalist is presented with a choice: to use his words for the corrupt businessmen’s financial benefit, or use them to take the bastards down.

Running Time: 1hr. 59 min.

MPAA Rating: R

Critic’s Reviews

Steven Rea
Philadelphia Inquirer
(Top Critic)
75%

Jazzy and colorful, full of men and women in swell clothes driving cool cars, The Rum Diary has a bit of a seedily exotic Graham Greene vibe, and Robinson moves things along at a nice, casual clip, even in the film’s more overheated moments.
Full Review »3 months ago

Colin Covert
Minneapolis Star Tribune
(Top Critic)
63%

What’s missing is a sense of dramatic urgency. The film is a colorful travelogue unsure of where it’s going.
Full Review »3 months ago

Tom Long
Detroit News
(Top Critic)
25%

The Rum Diary is a woozy mess that should never have made it to theaters. But then, it stars Johnny Depp, so it did.
Full Review »3 months ago

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Project Nim

Jan29
2012
Leave a Comment Jason Written by Jason

Project NimThe story of Nim, the chimpanzee who in the 1970s became the focus of a landmark experiment which aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child. Following Nim’s extraordinary journey through human society, and the enduring impact he makes on the people he meets along the way, the film is an unflinching and unsentimental biography of an animal we tried to make human. What we learn about his true nature – and indeed our own – is comic, revealing and profoundly unsettling.

Running Time: 1 hr. 39 min.

MPAA Rating: PG-13

 

 

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Drive

Jan16
2012
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A Hollywood stunt performer who moonlights as a wheelman discovers that a contract has been put on him after a heist gone wrong.

Running Time: 1 hr. 40 min.

MPAA Rating: R


 

Associated Press
Christy Lemire
“It’s more about the questionable choices that drive people — and, ultimately, the ones that drive them away.” more… B  
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
“Gosling’s an actor whose cool, under these circumstances, conflates Steve McQueen’s cockiness with James Dean’s drama.” more… A-
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
“Drive looks like one kind of movie in the ads, and it is that kind of movie. It is also a rebuke to most of the movies it looks like.” more… A-
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
“…begins extremely well and ends in a muddle of ultraviolence, hypocrisy and stylistic preening…” more… B-
E! Online
Luke Y. Thompson
“…the no-frills approach really, really works…” more… A  
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
“In Drive, the actor and director look great with the wind in their hair.” more… B+
Posted in Films

The Love Of Beer

Jan15
2012
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Ninkasi, KLCC and Women Enjoying Beer Present Alison Grayson’s THE LOVE OF BEER, a special film about women in craft brewing.

Thursday Feb 9

David Minor Theater 180 East 5th Avenue Eugene, OR 97401
(541) 762-1700
Two screenings — 7:45 & 9:15.

Tickets are available at the theater for $8 –21 and up with id please.

There will be a Ninkasi tasting 30 minutes prior to each screening.

Beer and food are available while you enjoy the show!

 

 

 

The Love of Beer from Lingering Illocutions on Vimeo.

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