WONDER YEARS: Actor Ellar Coltrane grows before your eyes in Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, which was filmed over 12 years.
SCREENINGS Borgman (113 mins.; NR) A vagrant invades the world of an upperclass family and turns their lives into a psychological nightmare. Screens as part of the SBIFF’s Showcase Series. (DJP)
Wed., Aug. 13, 5 and 7:30pm, Plaza de Oro
✯ Frozen (Sing-Along)
(102 mins.; PG: some action, mild rude humor)
Anna and Kristoff unite on an epic journey to find Anna’s sister, Elsa, and rescue their kingdom from an endless winter. Besides its long-overdue bow to feminist hopes, Frozen strikes a nice balance between expectation and surprise; we’re on safe (if frigid) terrain, but the plot keeps you guessing. Screens as part of the Magic Lantern summer film series. (DJP)
Sat., Aug. 9, 8:15pm, Anisq’Oyo’ Park, Embarcadero del Norte
Megamind (95 mins.; PG: action, some language)
Supervillain Megamind defeats superhero Metro Man and then loses his purpose in life. Screens as part of the Summer Kids Series. Tue., Aug. 12, 10am, Paseo Nuevo The Navigator (59 mins.; NR) Buster Keaton stars in a tale of two rich people trapped on a passenger ship. Screens as part of the Comedy Classics of the Silent Era film series.
Fri., Aug. 8, 8:30pm, S.B. County Courthouse Sunken Gardens, 1100 Anacapa St.
One Week (25 mins.; NR) A newlywed couple tries to build a home with a prefabricated kit, unaware that a rival sabotaged the pieces. Screens as part of the Comedy Classics of the Silent Era film series. Fri., Aug. 8, 8:30pm,
S.B. County Courthouse Sunken Gardens, 1100 Anacapa St.
Speedy (85 mins.; NR) Speedy (Harold Lloyd) loses his job as a soda jerk and starts driving a cab, which leads him to meeting Babe Ruth. Screens as part of the Comedy Classics of the Silent Era film series.
Wed., Aug. 13, 7:30pm, UCSB’s Campbell Hall
NOW SHOWING And So It Goes (94 mins.; PG-13: some sexual references, drug elements)
A self-consumed realtor (Michael Douglas) reaches out to his neighbor (Diane Keaton) for help after his estranged son leaves him with a granddaughter he never knew he had. Fairview
✯ Boyhood
(165 mins.; R: language including sexual references, teen drug and alcohol use)
Richard Linklater writes and directs this story about a young boy named Mason as
he grows from age 5 to 18. Here’s a sound not made in America enough: existence discussed with a reasoning skeptical voice. Linklater’s latest is moving but not melodramatic. (DJP) Paseo Nuevo/Riviera
✯ Chef
(115 mins.; R: language, some suggestive references)
Jon (Swingers) Favreau writes, directs, and stars in this story about a chef who loses his restaurant job and starts up a food truck as a way to reunite his estranged family. The film wears its soulful foodiness on its greasy apron; it’s a perfectly delicious, sometimes coarse, and often fine comedy that will leave you hungry at the end. (DJP) Plaza de Oro
✯ Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (130 mins.; PG-13: intense scenes of sci-fi violence and action, brief strong language)
A growing nation of genetically evolved apes is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived. Though it may not be as rich with ideas as Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Dawn is more carefully structured. (DJP)
Paseo Nuevo (2D)
Hercules (99 mins.; PG-13: epic battle sequences, violence, suggestive comments, brief strong language, partial nudity)
After completing the legendary 12 labors, Hercules helps the King of Thrace defeat his tyrannical enemies. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson stars as the demigod. In a rare example of great Hollywood writing, the second half becomes a kind of unexpected triumph as all of the mortal limitations are shed by mighty acts of heroic will. (DJP) Fairview (2D)/Fiesta 5 (2D) Lucy (90 mins.; R: strong violence, disturbing
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Scarlett Johansson stars as a woman who turns on her captors to become a highly evolved killing machine. Luc Besson’s first head film does more than Timothy Leary ever could to make massive drug ingestion seem like a good life plan—and the visuals could hardly have been more spectacular. (DJP) Camino Real/Metro 4 Planes: Fire & Rescue (83 mins.; PG: action and some peril)
A famous air-racing plane learns that his engine is damaged and that he may never race again, so he enters the world of aerial firefighting. Too dumb for grown-ups and too complex for wee ones, this is the kind of movie that almost gets by with beautiful scenery. But mostly it’s a big stall. (DJP)
Fiesta 5 (2D)
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