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SHOWTIMES GOOD FRI 4/20- THUR 4/26 1:00 3:10 5:20 7:30 *9:40PM
THE LUCKY ONE [PG-13] SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN [PG-13] THE THE
CABIN IN WOODS [R]
1:30 4:10 6:55 *9:30PM 12:55 3:05 5:15 7:25 *9:35PM
[PG-13]
LOCKOUT
1:10 3:15 5:25 7:35 *9:40PM
THE THREE STOOGES [PG]
1:15 3:20 5:25 7:30 *9:30PM
TITANIC
[PG-13]
IN : F-SAT: 1:00 4:45 8:30PM SUN-TH: 1:00 6:00PM
1:00 3:50 6:40 *9:30PM
THE HUNGER GAMES [PG-13] *L ATE S HOWS
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Kill ’em all?
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Salmon FiShing in the yemen Fri/Sat 6pm & 8:10pm Sunday 3pm & 6pm mon-thurS 7pm
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GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM
MUSEUM WITHOUT WALLS SPRING 2012 LECTURE SERIES
BUTTERFLIES, BEES AND BATS POLLINATORS OF THE NORTH STATE
APRIL 25
BATS IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
Funny and scary, The Cabin in the Woods takes a knife to tired horror tropes
MARY JEAN “CORKY” QUIRK, NORCAL BATS
7:30 PM at CARD CENTER 545 VALLOMBROSA AVE., CHICO SPECIAL THANKS TO THE SERIES SPONSORS PG&E, Garey and Barbara Weibel, Joan Stewart, In a North State Garden, Diane Anderson, Friends of the Herbarium, Marcia Moore, M.D., Price & Brown, Attorneys, NUTRILAWN, INC., Gary and Judy Sitton, Kenneth E. Lange, D.D.S.
4/27 Yo-YooLDMaO&UT SO Kathryn athryn Stott with The Assad Brothers FRIDAY 4/20 – ThuRsDAY 4/26 RAID: REDEMPTION, THE (Digital) (R) 9:00PM
THINK LIKE A MAN (Digital) (Pg-13) 11:10aM 2:00PM AMERICAN REUNION 4:50PM 7:40PM 10:30PM (Digital) (R)11:15aM 1:55PM 4:35PM 7:30PM THREE STOOGES, THE 10:15PM (Digital) (Pg) 12:00PM CABIN IN THE WOODS, 2:20PM 4:40PM 7:05PM 9:25PM THE (Digital) (R) 12:50PM 3:10PM 5:30PM 7:50PM 10:20PM TITANIC (2012) (3D) (Pg-13) 11:50aM 1:45PM CHIMPANZEE (Digital) 3:55PM 5:50PM 8:00PM 9:55PM (g) 12:15PM 2:30PM 4:45PM 7:00PM 9:05PM WRATH OF TITANS (3D) (Pg-13) 2:30PM 7:35PM HUNGER GAMES, THE (Digital) (PgWRATH OF TITANS 13) 11:25aM 1:00PM (Digital) (Pg-13) 2:35PM 4:10PM 12:05PM 5:00PM 5:45PM♥ 7:20PM 10:05PM 10:30PM (SPECIAL SHOWING) LOCKOUT (Digital) (Pg-13)12:45PM 3:05PM MET OPERA: MANON 5:25PM 7:45PM 10:10PM ENCORE (Digital) (NR) WeD. 4/25 6:30PM LUCKY ONE, THE (SPECIAL SHOWING) (Digital) (Pg-13) - TCM PRESENTS 12:25PM 2:55PM 5:25PM 7:55PM 10:25PM CASABLANCA 70TH ANNIvERSARY EvENT ENCORE (Digital) (NR) MIRROR MIRROR (Digital) (Pg) 11:20aM thuRs. 4/26 7:00PM 1:55PM 4:30PM 7:10PM 9:45PM showtimes listed w/ ♥ not shown sat. 4/25 showtimes listed w/ ♣ not shown thur. 4/26
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S a Stoner check into a creepy cabin in the woods and … wait, you’ve heard this one before? Of course you have, what o, a Jock, a Dumb Blonde, a Brain, a Virgin and
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21 JUMP STREET (Digital) (R) 11:40aM 2:15PM 4:50PM♣ 7:25PM♣ 10:00PM
We’re not yer daddy’s horror stereotypes.
5/7 Dave Eggers: Zeitoun Book In Common
with the archetypes being the default setting of horror, and the old dark house/cabin being its own subgenre. But what if those archetypes didn’t leave home by Craig Blamer being so dumb or smart or virgin-y or douchebaggy or baked? (Well, the stoner starts out as a stoner, but still.) Add a shady Umbrella Corporation aspect and layer every moment with nods and homages to pretty much every horror flick that makes a horror movie buff’s The Cabin in eyes light up, and The Cabin in the Woods the Woods joins the ranks of such cult items as Shaun of Starring Kristen the Dead and The Return of the Living Dead as Connolly, Chris a rare horror flick that’s able to pull off that very, Hemsworth and very difficult balance of humor and horror. Anna Hutchinson. The movie slowly reveals itself as an Directed by Drew Goddard. arch—and very clever—deconstruction of the Cinemark 14, tropes of dead-teenager films that Scream Feather River wanted to be, but lacked the mad creative skillz Cinemas and to really pull off. And it also has a sly humor Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R. that Zombieland was completely incapable of mustering. The Cabin in the Woods pulls it all off. Granted, it’s not 100-percent perfect, as tropes are tropes no matter how ironically you Poor approach them, so the basic narrative suffers from a slight case of over-familiarity until it explodes into the third act. And then things get interesting—and very, very wet. Fair Of course, we have Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) producing a script co-written with Lost and Cloverfield scribe Drew Goddard (who also makes his directorial debut Good here), so this re-imagining of ’80s horror is very clever and consistently entertaining. And it helps that the cast is uniformly endearing in Very Good its own way, subverting the trope that our mayhem-bait be unlikable for maximum cathartic pleasure. But I would say, don’t read up on it too Excellent much, though. Half the fun is figuring out
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5/16 Annie Jr.
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where it’s heading; which might be why it sat on the shelf for three years. It wasn’t because of quality, but rather the meta-aspect probably confused the suits at MGM when they got their screening. Fortunately for us, Lionsgate came through. Ω
Ass-kicking mayhem The Raid: Redemption
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Cinemark 14. Rated R
by Craig Blamer You know that The Raid: Redemption
isn’t gonna be your typical Hollywood pulledpunch actioner when you find that your hero is gonna be a devout Muslim. And about 10 minutes in, this Indonesian import seals the deal by kicking off with a bang that keeps bangin’ away until the bloodied survivors walk out of the frame to make room for the end credits. Believe the hype. The Raid: Redemption is a glorious return to ass-kicking mayhem that hasn’t been seen since the Chinese retook Hong Kong in the late-’90s and chased an entire genre out of town. The premise is simple: A team of elite cops make their way up the stairs of a degraded 30story high-rise in a sweep to take out a diabolical drug lord who puts his profits into security equipment over maintenance, and rents out the rooms to the most sociopathic elements of society. (Let’s just say that, when our kingpin announces free rent to those who help him make his nuisance go away, these tenants are very, very motivated.) That’s pretty much all the plot we need, because otherwise it might get in the way of all the ass-kicking that our hero (rookie cop