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Brockport Strand 637-3310 89 Main St, Brockport BREAKING DAWN: 7, 9:30; also Sat-Sun 1, 4; RISE OF THE GUARDIANS: 7, 9; also Sat-Sun 1, 3, 5; SKYFALL: 7, 9:40; also Sat-Sun 1, 4.
Canandaigua Theatres 396-0110 Wal-Mart Plaza, Canandaigua BREAKING DAWN: 7, 9:30; also Fri-Sun 4, Sat-Sun 1; FLIGHT: 7, 9:35; also Fri-Sun 4; Sat-Sun 1:15; KILLING THEM SOFTLY: 7:10, 9:10; also FriSun 5:10, Sat-Sun 1:10, 3:10; LIFE OF PI: 3D Sat-Sun 3:30; 2D 7, 9:30; also Fri-Sun 4, SatSun 1:15; LINCOLN: 7:15, 8:15; also Fri-Sun 4:15, Sat-Sun 1:15; RED DAWN: 7:10, 9:30; also Fri-Sun 4:10; Sat-Sun 1:10; RISE OF THE GUARDIANS: 3D: Fri-Sun 6; Sat-Sun 1:30; 2D 7, 9; also Fri-Sun 5, SatSun 1, 3; SKYFALL: 7, 9:40; also Fri-Sun 4; Sat-Sun 1; WRECK-IT RALPH: 7, 9; also Fri-Sun 5, Sat-Sun 1, 3.
Cinema Theater 271-1785 957 S. Clinton St. JOHN WATERS DOUBLE FEATURE FRI: PECKER 7; HAIRSPRAY: 8:30; PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER: 7; SatSun 4:30; SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN: 8:45.
Culver Ridge 16 544-1140 2255 Ridge Rd E, Irondequoit ARGO: 12:50, 3:55, 6:45, 9:30; BREAKING DAWN: 12:30, continues on page 32
The Axis of Evil chops the Northwest [ REVIEW ] by George Grella
Those who revere Ronald Reagan as a man who walked on water, then changed it to wine, conveniently forget the Cold War paranoia he “Red Dawn” cultivated and the butchery he condoned. (PG-13), directed by Dan Bradley Although possibly slightly less hysterically Now playing rightist than its predecessor, the remake traffics in the same sort of fearmongering, basing its The original “Red Dawn” appeared in 1984, plot on an invasion by one of the “Axis of and like many works of popular art provides a Evil” countries invoked by George W. Bush useful glimpse of the temper of its time. During as a way of retaining his hold on the office he the Reagan administration’s orchestration of stole. Before the story itself begins, the movie a systematic slaughter of leftists, liberals, and shows a long, crowded montage of television other supporters of land reform and democracy news reports of the contemporary events that all over Central America, the movie posited an create the context for its action. News stories of invasion of the United States from Nicaragua; economic collapse, international financial crises, the president even warned that the hordes from electronic terrorism, etc. provide a modicum the South could threaten Brownsville, Texas. of verisimilitude to a generally incredible fiction. No less preposterous than the first film, this “Red Dawn” shows a massive airborne attack by North Korean forces on the American Northwest, assisted by the Russians, who take the East Coast. Late in the picture some awkward exposition reveals that Josh Peck, Josh Hutcherson, and Chris Hemsworth in the remake of “Red Dawn.”
some advanced cyber-attack destroyed the U. S. power grid, neutralizing all communications and preventing counterattack, supposed to explain the impotence of the largest and best-equipped military force in the world in the face of such an invasion. Once again, a bunch of high-school students calling themselves the Wolverines after their football team, this time in Spokane, Washington, escape into the wilderness and form a guerilla force to resist the occupying forces. Led by Jed Eckert (Chris Hemsworth), a Marine home on leave, and his younger brother Matt (Josh Peck), the gang embarks on a campaign to fight the invaders, ambushing Korean troops, assassinating officers, stealing weapons and vehicles, planting bombs, and freeing their friends and neighbors from concentration camps. As Jed tells them, in Iraq he and his comrades were the good guys; now the Wolverines are the bad guys practicing a war of stealth and terror. Once the Wolverines learn some essential lessons in matters like marksmanship, bomb making, and hand-to-hand combat from Jed, most of the rest of the movie, unsurprisingly, consists of a series of fierce gun battles, automobile chases, and the usual explosions. Some of their methods, like car bombs, improvised explosive devices, setting one explosion to be followed by another, and so on, come right from the American experience in the Middle East. Though outmanned and outgunned, the Wolverines prove themselves
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