Show Times: Monday, March 1 - Thursday, March 11, 2010

Alice in Wonderland
Mar 5..................4:00, 7:00
Mar 6..................1:30, 4:00, 7:00
Mar 7..................1:30, 4:00
Mar 8-11..................4:00, 7:00

The Last Station
Mar 5..................4:30, 7:20
Mar 6..................2:00, 4:30, 7:20
Mar 7..................2:00, 4:00
Mar 8-11.............4:30, 7:20

General Admission: $8 - Seniors: $7 (62 and over) and Students (middle & high school with ASB card or student ID) - Children: $6 (12 and under) - Matinees: $1 less

Alice in Wonderland (2D)
Directed by Tim Burton
Cast: Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska, Anne Hathaway, Crispin Glover, Stephen Fry, Alan Rickman
Rated PG-13 for fantasy action/violence involving scary images and situations, and for a smoking caterpillar. 109 min.
View the Trailer:  www.disney.com/wonderland

To dispense with the obvious: Tim Burton's new Disney movie is not Lewis Carroll's masterpiece of dream illogic, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," but more of a C.S. Lewis Carroll "Alice in Narnia" with your horror host Johnny Depp.  In Burton's Alice in Wonderland, characters, tropes, and actual verses of "Alices Adventures" and its sequel, "Through the Looking Glass," are folded into an action-fantasy in which the 19-year-old Alice (in her second plunge down the rabbit hole) must prove her mettle by rising up on the frabjous day and slaying the Jabberwock (Callooh! Callay!), thereby saving Underland from the nasty Red Queen. 

"Tim Burton's most interesting film in a decade." -Michael Phillips, At the Movies

"Magnificent, visually stunning." -Boxoffice Magazine

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The Last Station
Directed by Michael Hoffman
Cast: Helen Mirren, Christopher Plummer, Paul Giamatti, Anne-Marie Duff, Kerry Dondon, James McAvoy
Rated R for sexuality, nudity. 110 min.
View the Trailer:  www.sonyclassics.com
NPR interview with Helen Mirren

The challenge and (let's face it) the hoot of playing formidable ladies with iron wills suit Helen Mirren splendidly these days; she's making the most of her uniquely posed, feminine bearing, her mature sensuality, and her own status as a Dame of the British Empire -- one who doesn't give a toss about titles.  Three years after her triumphant, Oscar-winning performance as a modern British monarch in The Queen, Mirren is magnificent as Countess Sofya -- better know as Mrs. Leo Tolstoy. -- in The Last Station, a grandly entertaining historical drama about the final year of the great Russian writer's life.

Based on the equally entertaining, erudite novel by Jay Parini and adapted and directed by Michael Hoffman, the movie is at once a hot marital showdown and a cool politcal debate, a domestic War and Peace.  While Count Leo (Christopher Plummer, a boffo choice), living under the sway of a ridgid Tolstoyan acolyte named Chertkov (Paul Giamatti), supports anarchy, pacifism, and the abolishment of property rights, Countess Sofya fights, tigress-style, for the security of well-ordered laws regarding copyrights and inheritance -- specifically her inheritance from her husband's estate, which she would lose if Chertkov and his ilk got their way.

The war between Leo and Sofya is filtered through the perceptions of an eager, chaste young man (James McAvoy) who arrives at Tolstoy's country home to work as the writer's secretary.  He stays to be initiated into lusty manhood by Rome's Kerry Condon, playing an attractive young believer in Tolstoyan uptopia.  But as fetching as the young lovers are, the pair could learn a thing or two about passion from Mirren; at this point the actress can convey fury, tenderness, or voracious will with a mere raise of an eyebrow.  (Excerpted from Liza Schwarzbaum's Entertainment Weekly review)

"Helen Mirren is a lusty, roaring wonder, simply astounding.  And Plummer is her match.  Two acting giants going at each other." -Rolling Stone

"Passionate, profound and unforgettable." - New York Observer

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