Monday Afternoon at the Movies
(All Films
Start at 2 p.m.)
04/07/2014: Gravity, Rated PG-13, 91 minutes: Director Alfonso
Cuaron's Gravity stars Sandra Bullock as Dr. Ryan Stone, a scientist on a space
shuttle mission headed by astronaut Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney), a
talkative, charismatic leader full of colorful stories that he shares with his
crewmates as well as mission control. As the two are on a space walk, debris
hits the area where they are working, and soon the pair finds themselves
detached from their ship and stranded in space.
04/14/2014: Saving Mr. Banks, Rated PG-13, 125
minutes: The
story of how Walt Disney courted P.L. Travers into letting him option the
rights to Mary Poppins is brought to the screen in this non-fiction drama
starring Tom Hanks, Emma Thompson, and Colin Farrell.
04/21/2014: The Hobbit: Desolation of
Smaug, Rated PG-13, 161 minutes: The second in a trilogy of
films adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien
continues the adventure of the title character Bilbo Baggins as he journeys
with the Wizard Gandalf and thirteen Dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield, on an
epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor.
04/28/2014: Catching Fire, Rated PG-13,
146 minutes: The
Hunger Games saga continues in this sequel that finds a revolution brewing as
Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) take a
"Victor's Tour" of the districts, and President Snow (Donald
Sutherland) plots their downfall during preparations for the Quarter Quell,
which only occurs every 25 years in celebration of the Capitol's victory over
the districts.