WEEK OF JULY 18TH THRU JULY 24TH
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$ 50 WEDNESDAYS
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Godzilla
PG-13
Fri-Mon 11:45 7:35, Tues 11:45 Wed 11:45 7:35, Thurs 11:45
The Amazing Spiderman 2 PG-13
THE MAGIC LANTERN
PG-13
raiders of the lost ark
SNOWPIERCER (126 MIN -R)
Fri/Sat: 8:30, Sun: 3:30, 7:00 Tues-Thurs: 8:30
Sat Midnight, Tues 7:35 Thurs 9:40pm
IDA (78 MIN)
Fri-Sat: 3:15, Sun: 1:15, Tues-Thurs: 4:15
Shrek
BELLE (105 MIN)
Fri-Sun: 5:00, Tues-Thurs: 5:00
KPBX
OBVIOUS CHILD (80 MIN) *last week Fri/Sat: 9:00, Sun: 8:15, Tues-Thurs: 9:00 25 W Main Ave • 509-209-2383 • All Shows $8 www.magiclanternspokane.com
Fri-Thurs 4:50
Fri-Wed 10:05pm, Thurs 7:35
Fri/Sat: 3:30, 6:00, Sun: 1:00, 6:00 Tues-Thurs: 6:00
GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (96 MIN) *last week
Captain America: the winter soldier
Neighbors
FRI JULY 18TH - THUR JULY 24TH LIFE ITSELF (120 MIN) *opening!
Fri/Sat: 7:00, Sun: 3:00 Tues-Thurs: 7:00
Fri-Thurs 2:10
Mon-Thurs 9:30am Cloudy with A CHANCE OF Meatballs 2 Friday 9:30am • $1 Movie
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FILM | SHORTS
NOW PLAYING to be possessed by some evil entity. He teams up with a hardscrabble Catholic priest to rid the city of this evil, which seems to be passing from person to person. On a lighter note, Joel McHale plays a cop in this ultra-scary flick. (MB) Rated R
DRAFT DAY
Director Ivan Reitman (who did, among many other things, Ghostbusters) brings us a relatively accurate depiction of the NFL draft and all the backroom shenanigans. Kevin Costner stars as the GM of the Cleveland Browns who, on the eve of the draft, has seen both his personal life and his career wander onto shaky ground. Now, he has to decide whether to take a heralded quarterback as the first pick. (MB) Rated PG-13
EARTH TO ECHO
Three neighbors and best friends, Tuck, Munch, Alex, and their families are forced to move due to a highway construction project in their neighborhood. But amidst the change the dynamic friends receive a series of coded messages leading them on an adventure of a lifetime. They enlist Emma, a school friend, to help them on their journey. What they eventually find is an alien stranded on Earth and they make it their mission to help him return home. (MAB) PG
EDGE OF TOMORROW
Tom Cruise has picked his science-fiction films wisely (Minority Report) and less so (Oblivion). But he made the right choice on this full-blown action movie about an attack on Earth by creepy, bloodthirsty aliens, and the war waged on them by our international military. It’s also a trapped-in-a-time-loop story, similar to Groundhog Day (but more violent and funnier) in which Cruise is an unwilling soldier who keeps getting killed in battle, then waking up to fight again, knowing what’s to come. (ES) Rated PG-13
Summer 2014
KIDS’
CONCERTS
THE FAULT IN OUR STARS
The girl has cancer, the boy is in remission from cancer; this story can only end badly. As far as teenage cancer love stories go, John Green’s recent young adult novel of the same name isn’t half bad — not nearly as sappy as A Walk to Remember. With Shailene Woodley (The Descendants, Divergent) as the lead for this film adaption, many lovesick teenage girls and their boyfriends will show up for this one. (LJ) Rated PG-13
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Wes Anderson’s latest features a narrative structure in which the central story isn’t merely a flashback, but a flashback nesting in a flashback nesting inside another flashback. A woman visits a memorial for a writer; that writer (Tom Wilkinson), circa 1985, describes his encounter as a young man (Jude Law) in 1968 with Mr. Zero Moustafa (F. Murray Abraham), owner of the once-glorious Grand Budapest Hotel in the “former republic of Zubowka.” At Magic Lantern (SR) Rated R
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2
Hiccup’s father Stoick, the isle’s Viking chieftain, is ready to cede power to his dragon-master heir, Hiccup’s focus lies elsewhere, as he and his dragon best friend Toothless chart the previously unexplored world beyond Berk. Unfortunately, these travels lead to some unwanted discoveries, including the existence of dragon poachers and the tyrant Drago, who controls a dragon army. (SS) Rated PG
IDA
Taking place in Poland in 1962, Ida is the story of an aspiring nun, Anna. The graceful 18-year-old hopes to take her vows in the same convent she has lived in since being orphaned. But before her vows are complete, she is required to meet with an unknown family member that will change her perspective on life. Family secrets from the dark Nazi occupation are revealed and this sends Anna on a journey in hope of finding clarity. At Magic Lantern (MAB) Rated PG-13
MALEFICENT
As one of the most terrifying and iconic Disney villains, Maleficent (Angelina Jolie) has had many questions surrounding the origins of her background. This newly re-imagined flick seeks to explain exactly how the fallen fairy became so evil, and why she chose to act out against innocent Princess Aurora (Elle Fanning). (ER) PG
NEIGHBORS
This film casts Seth Rogen in a comfortable role as a genial pot-smoker, and a wonderfully wild Rose Byrne in a comfortable role where she’s allowed to speak with her own Australian accent, as Mac and Kelly are forced to contend with the Delta Psi fraternity buying the suburban house next door to theirs. OK premise, awful result. (SR) Rated R
OBVIOUS CHILD
Soon after we meet her, Donna (Jenny Slate) gets dumped. She gets sad and sloppy drunk, then sleeps with a stranger. She gets pregnant. She decides to get an abortion. Emotionally troubled but constitutionally tough, Donna keeps going about her days while also entertain-
SNOWPIERCER
It’s the future and everything is super screwed up thanks to a weather control experiment gone wrong, leaving the world completely frozen. The only remaining humans live on a train that circles the globe, never stopping. On that train, there’s a strict divide between the haves and have-nots, overseen by a fierce administrator played by Tilda Swinton. When a rebellion rises, things go way, way off the tracks. At Magic Lantern (MB) Rated R
TAMMY
The titular Tammy is a perpetual screwup, and when she loses her job, her car and her husband in one day, she decides to take the radical step of leaving her Illinois hometown. So it’s time for a road trip, requiring the car — and the accompanying presence — of her alcoholic, diabetic grandmother Pearl (Susan Sarandon). At the outset, Tammy feels like familiar territory for McCarthy, especially as she fumbles her way through that initial crappy day. (SR) Rated R
TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION
Time for the Autobots to roll out again as Michael Bay brings us the fourth installment in his Transformers franchise. This time, Mark Wahlberg and his daughter have discovered something that could threaten both forces of shape-shifting robots, and even the entire world. (PS) Rated PG-13
X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST
We open on a nasty future: dark, postapocalyptic skies and ruined cities left in the wake of the ongoing genocide of mutants and humans by robot Sentinels. The sci-fi Judgment Day has come and the Terminators aren’t even bothering to imprison survivors in the Matrix. Professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) has a plan to stop the Sentinel war decades in the past, before it even begins. Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellan and Michael Fassbender. (MJ) Rated PG-13
CRITICS’ SCORECARD THE NEW YORK INLANDER TIMES
VARIETY
(LOS ANGELES)
METACRITIC.COM (OUT OF 100)
Life Itself
86
Snowpiercer
83
Planet of the Apes
79
Obvious Child
76
X-MEN: Days of...Past
74
Maleficent
55
Tammy
39
DON’T MISS IT
52 INLANDER JULY 17, 2014
ing a love interest. Slate is so dynamic in this role, so 100-proof potent, that it’s easy to be entirely smitten with her. At AMC (KJ) Rated R
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