Film Focus: Dec. 6-12, 2024
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Film Focus: Dec. 6-12, 2024

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By M. Faust

FLOW (PG) Critically acclaimed animated movie about a cat and diverse other animals trying to survive on a sailboat after an apocalyptic flood. Directed by Gints Zilbalodis (Away). Regal Walden Galleria, Regal Quaker

GET AWAY (R) British comedian Nick Frost wrote and stars in this horror comedy about a family who vacation on a remote Swedish island where the residents are about to commemorate the time when their ancestors were forced to resort to cannibalism. Co-staring Aisling Bea, Sebastian Croft and Maisie Ayres. Directed by Steffen Haars. AMC Market Arcade, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit

INTERSTELLAR (PG-13) IMAX re-release of Christopher Nolan’s 2014 science fiction film about the search for a planet capable of supporting human life after Earth has finally been exhausted. Starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Michael Caine, Matt Damon, John Lithgow, Casey Affleck and Topher Grace. Regal Transit

THE ORDER (R) Jude Law stars as an FBI agent investigating the Idaho neo-Nazi group that robbed banks in the northwest in the early 1980s. With Nicholas Hoult, Jurnee Smollett and Tye Sheridan.. Directed by Justin Kurzel (Assassin’s Creed). Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit

PUSHPA 2: THE RULE (NR) Telugu language about a sandalwood smuggling empire. Starring Allu Arjun Rashmika Mandanna and Fahadh Faasil. Directed by Sukumar. Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria,

THE RETURN (R) Ralph Fiennes as Odysseus in an adaptation of the Greek classic The Odyssey. Co-starring Juliette Binoche, Charlie Plummer, Marwan Kenzari and Ángela Molina. Directed by Uberto Pasolini (Nowhere Special). Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Walden Galleria

SOLO LEVELING: REAWAKENING (R) Anime. Directed by Shunsuke Nakashige North Park, Regal Walden Galleria

WEREWOLVES (R) No, it’s not the new Greg Lamberson movie. Starring Frank Grillo, Katrina Law, Ilfenesh Hadera and Lou Diamond Phillips. Directed by Steven C. Miller (Line of Duty). AMC Market Arcade, Dipson Capitol, Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria

Y2K (R) Nostalgia for the year 1999, when some people thought that everything computerized would fail when the date changed to 2000. I guess you had to be there. Starring Rachel Zegler, Jaeden Martell, Julian Dennison. The directorial debut of former SNL cast member Kyle Mooney. AMC Maple Ridge, AMC Market Arcade, Dipson Capitol, Dipson Flix, Dunkirk Multiplex, Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria

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BONHOEFFER: PASTOR. SPY. ASSASSIN. (PG-13) Biographical drama about the German theologian who wrestled with his pacifist beliefs to oppose fascism during WWII. Starring Jonas Dassler, August Diehl, David Jonsson, Flula Borg. Directed by Todd Komarnicki (Resistance). Regal Transit

CONCLAVE (PG) Adaptation of the best-selling novel set during the Catholic Church’s secretive process to elect a new Pope. Starring Ralph Fiennes, Jacek Koman, Lucian Msamati, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, and Isabella Rossellini. Directed by Edward Berger (All Quiet on the Western Front). Dipson Amherst Read M. Faust’s review here.

GLADIATOR II (R) Sequel. Starring Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal, Denzel Washington, Connie Nielsen and Derek Jacobi. Directed by Ridley Scott (Napoleon). AMC Maple Ridge, AMC Market Arcade, Dipson Amherst, Dipson Capitol, Dipson Flix, Dunkirk Multiplex, Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Spotlight Theater of Warsaw Read M. Faust’s review here

MOANA 2 (PG) Animated sequel. With the voices of Auli’i Cravalho, Dwayne Johnson, Alan Tudyk, and Nicole Scherzinger. Directed by David G. Derrick Jr., Jason Hand, and Dana Ledoux Miller. AMC Maple Ridge, AMC Market Arcade, Dipson Capitol, Dipson Flix, Dunkirk Multiplex, Hamburg Palace, Joylan, Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Spotlight Theater of Warsaw

A REAL PAIN (R) Comedy-drama starring Kieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg (who also wrote and directed) as odd-couple cousins taking a trip to Poland to visit the home of their late grandmother and maybe work out their personal problems. With Will Sharpe, Jennifer Grey, and Kurt Egyiawan. Dipson Amherst Read M. Faust’s review here 

RED ONE (PG-13) Big-budget CGI holiday movie starring Dwayne Johnson as a North Pole security agent tracking a kidnapped Santa Claus (J. K. Simmons). Co-starring Chris Evans, Lucy Liu, Bonnie Hunt, and Nick Kroll. Directed by Jake Kasdan (Jumanji: The Next Level). AMC Maple Ridge, AMC Market Arcade, Dipson Capitol, Dipson Flix, Dunkirk Multiplex, Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria Read M. Faust’s review here

VENOM: THE LAST DANCE (PG-13) MCU stuff. Starring Tom Hardy, Juno Temple, Alanna Ubach, Stephen Graham, Rhys Ifans and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Directed by Kelly Marcel. Regal Walden Galleria

WICKED (PG) Adaptation of the long running musical that tells the story of The Wizard of Oz from the point of view of the Wicked Witch. NB: This is only part one. Starring Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Jonathan Bailey, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum, and Peter Dinklage. Directed by John M. Chu (G.I. Joe: Retaliation). AMC Maple Ridge, AMC Market Arcade, Aurora, Dipson Amherst, Dipson Capitol, Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Spotlight Theater of Warsaw Read the review by Mia Ciechalski here

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A CHRISTMAS STORY (1983)—Admit it: this is the Christmas movie you’ve seen more than any other, and the one you’re most likely to watch again. Humorist Jean Shepherd’s stories form this basis for this portrait of Christmas in a blue collar midwestern city in the 1930s. Starring Darren McGavin, Melinda Dillon and Peter Billingsley. Directed by Bob Clark (Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things). Sat-Sun 11:30am North Park

REAR WINDOW (1954)—Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller starring James Stewart as a photographer, confined to a wheelchair by a broken leg, who spies on his neighbors from the window of his Greenwich Village apartment and discovers that one of them has committed a murder. The mystery is less interesting than Hitchcock’s exploration of the perverse pleasures of voyeurism. With Grace Kelly, Raymond Burr, and Thelma Ritter. The Friday screening includes a trivia competition. Fri 7 pm, Tues 7:30 pm. Screening Room

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