Films This Week
Check out the movies playing around town.
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New This Week
AMERICAN SNIPER Bradley Cooper stars as real-life Navy SEAL sharpshooter Chris Kyle, whose harrowing four tours of duty in Iraq are chronicled in this military action drama based on Kyle’s memoir. Directed by Clint Eastwood. Sienna Miller co-stars. (R) 132 minutes. Starts Friday.
BLACKHAT International cybercrime is the subject of this action thriller from Michael Mann, starring Chris Hemsworth as a furloughed convict recruited to track down a cybercrime organization with his American and Chinese partners. Viola Davis and Tang Wei co-star. (R) 135 minutes. Starts Friday.
PADDINGTON The adorable bear in the red rain hat, hero of a series of beloved children’s books, gets lost in London’s Paddington Train Station and taken in by a kindly English family in this mostly live-action (+ CGI bear) family adventure. Nicole Kidman, Peter Capaldi, Julie Walters, Sally Hawkins and Jim Broadbent head the humanoid cast. Ben Whishaw provides the voice of Paddington. (PG) 90 minutes. Starts Friday.
SON OF A GUN A teenager in prison for a minor offense comes under the protection of Australia’s most notorious criminal and soon finds himself involved in a prison break, a gold heist, and a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with his mentor. Brenton Thwaites and Ewan McGregor star for director Julius Avery. (R) 108 minutes. Starts Friday.
SPARE PARTS Four Hispanic high school students form a robotics club and find themselves in a competition with the robotics wizards of MIT in this upbeat drama based on a true story. Marisa Tomei, George Lopez, and Jamie Lee Curtis head the cast. Sean McNamara directs. (PG-13) 113 minutes. Starts Friday.
THE WEDDING RINGER A socially awkward groom-to-be (Josh Gad) rents a hip best-man-for-hire (Kevin Hart) to make his wedding a success in this modern comedy of manners. Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting and Alan Ritchson co-star for director Jeremy Garelick. (R) 101 minutes. Starts Friday.
Film Events
LET’S TALK ABOUT THE MOVIES This informal movie discussion group meets at the Del Mar mezzanine in downtown Santa Cruz. Movie junkies are invited to join in on Wednesday nights to pursue the elusive and ineffable meanings of cinema. This week (Jan. 14): INHERENT VICE Discussion begins at 7 p.m. and admission is free. For more information visit groups.google.com/group/LTATM.
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Now Playing
INHERENT VICE Joaquin Phoenix stars as the hapless goofball protagonist in this adaptation of the Thomas Pynchon comic novel about sex and drugs in 1970s L.A., as a low-rent private eye searches for a missing ex-girlfriend. Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Benicio Del Toro, and Reese Witherspoon co-star for director Paul Thomas Anderson. (R) 148 minutes.
SELMA Reviewed this issue. (PG-13) 123 minutes. (***1/2)—Lisa Jensen. NOTE: The NAACP Santa Cruz County and the Resource Center for Nonviolence are hosting a series of events all this week celebrating the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Visit rcnv.org or call 423-1626 for details.
TAKEN 3 Liam Neeson rides again as the implacably cool ex-CIA op who foiled complex kidnapping plots in the first two thrillers now using all his wicked counter-intelligence skills to elude the bad guys tracking him and clear himself of a bogus murder charge. Maggie Grace and Famke Janssen co-star for returning director Olivier Megaton. (PG-13) 109 minutes.
