Afternoon at the Movies (All Films
Start at 2 p.m.)
05/05/2014: Twelve Years a Slave, Rated R, 134
minutes: In
the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate
New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.
Rated R for violence/cruelty, some nudity and brief sexuality. Winner of The Academy Award for Best Picture
and Best Supporting Actress.
05/12/2014: Frozen, Rated PG, 108 minutes: After the kingdom of
Arendelle is cast into eternal winter by the powerful Snow Queen Elsa (voice of
Idina Menzel), her sprightly sister Anna (Kristen Bell) teams up with a
rough-hewn mountaineer named Kristoff (Jonathan Groff) and his trusty reindeer
Sven to break the icy spell. Winner of
the Academy Awards for Best Amimated
Feature and Best Song.
05/19/2014: Ender’s Game, Rated PG-13, 113 minutes: A brilliant young
strategist rises to the top of his class in Battle School while training to
defend Earth against hostile aliens intent on exterminating the entire human race
in this sci-fi epic based on the celebrated novel. In the not-too-distant
future, our planet has come under attack from a malevolent race of aliens known
as the Formics. Harrison Ford, Hailee
Steinfeld, Ben Kingsley, Abigail Breslin, and Viola Davis star.
Sunday
Cinema
05/04/2014: The Armstrong Lie, Rated R, 123 minutes:
In 2009 Alex Gibney
was hired to make a film about Lance Armstrong's comeback to cycling. The
project was shelved when the doping scandal erupted, and re-opened after
Armstrong's confession. Rated R for
language.
