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Published: November 5, 2009
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Clever animation. So-so story. Voices by Elijah Wood and Christopher Plummer, among others.
Rated: PG-13 for violence and scary images.
Showing: Marketplace.
AMELIA (
)
A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world. Starring Hilary Swank and Richard Gere.
Rated: PG for some sensuality, adult language, thematic elements and smoking.
Showing: Grand 18.
ASTRO BOY (
)
When a scientist's young son dies, he secretly creates a powerful robot child to replace him. The robot uses its incredible abilities to become a world-famous super-hero, and faces its biggest challenge when an alien race threatens Earth. Voices by Nicolas Cage, Samuel L. Jackson, Charlize Theron and Bill Nighy.
Rated: PG for some action and peril, and mild adult language.
Showing: Grand 18, Wynnsong 12, Carmike 10, Liberty Twin, Creekside.
THE BOX () new
A small wooden box arrives on the doorstep of a married couple, who know that opening it will grant them a million dollars and kill someone they don't know. Starring Cameron Diaz and James Marsden.
Rated: PG-13 for thematic elements, some violence and disturbing images.
Showing: Grand 18, Wynnsong 12, Creekside.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL (
) new
An animated retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel about a Victorian-era miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.
Rated: PG for scary sequences and images.
Showing: Grand 18, Wynnsong 12, Carmike 10, Kernersville Countryside, Starmount, Liberty Twin, Creekside.
CIRQUE DU FREAK: THE VAMPIRE'S ASSISTANT (
½)
A young boy named Darren Shan meets a mysterious man at a freak show. He leaves his normal life and goes on the road with the Cirque Du Freak and becomes a vampire.
Rated: PG-13 for sequences of intense supernatural violence and action, disturbing images, thematic elements and some adult language.
Showing: Grand 18, Carmike 10, Creekside.
CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS (
½)
Inspired by the beloved children's book, the film focuses on a town where food falls from the sky like rain. Voices by Bill Hader, Anna Faris and Bruce Campbell, among others.
Rated: PG for mild adult language.
Showing: Grand 18, Carmike 10, Creekside.
COUPLES RETREAT (
½)
A comedy centered on four couples who settle into a tropical-island resort for a vacation. While one of the couples is there to work on the marriage, the others fail to realize that participation in the resort's therapy sessions is not optional.
Rated: PG-13 on appeal for sexual content and language.
Showing: Grand 18, Wynnsong 12, Carmike 10, Starmount, Creekside.
G-FORCE (H)
Armed with the latest high-tech spy equipment, a covert team of highly trained guinea pigs discovers that the fate of the world is in its paws.
Rated: PG for some mild action and rude humor.
Showing: Marketplace.
THE FOURTH KIND () new
Fact-based thriller about an unsolved mystery in Alaska, where one town has seen an extraordinary number of unexplained disappearances during the past 40 years and there are accusations of a federal cover up. Starring Milla Jovovich, Elias Koteas and Will Patton.
Rated: PG-13 for violent/disturbing images, some terror, thematic elements and brief sexuality.
Showing: Grand 18, Wynnsong 12, Carmike 10, Starmount, Creekside.
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (
½)
World War II comedy stars Brad Pitt, Melanie Laurent, Christopher Waltz, among others.
Rated: R for graphic violence, adult language and brief sexuality.
Showing: Marketplace.
LAW ABIDING CITIZEN (
)
An everyday guy decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets his family's killers free. Starring Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler.
Rated: R for brutal violence and torture, a scene of rape, and pervasive adult language.
Showing: Grand 18, Wynnsong 12, Carmike 10.
LOVE HAPPENS (not reviewed)
A widower (Aaron Eckhart) writes a best-selling book about coping with loss and becomes a celebrated self-help guru. On a business trip to Seattle, he falls for a woman (Jennifer Aniston) who attends one of his seminars, only to learn that he hasn't yet truly confronted his wife's passing.
Rated: PG-13 for some adult language including sexual references.
Showing: Marketplace.
THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS (
½) new
A reporter in Iraq might just have the story of a lifetime when he meets a guy who claims to be a former member of the U.S. Army's First Earth Battalion, a unit that employs paranormal powers in their missions. Starring George Clooney.
Rated: R for adult language, some drug content and brief nudity.
Showing: Grand 18, Wynnsong 12, Creekside.
MICHAEL JACKSON'S THIS IS IT (

½)
A compilation of interviews, rehearsals and backstage footage of the late Michael Jackson as he prepared for his series of sold-out shows in London.
Rated: PG for some suggestive choreography and scary images.
Showing: Grand 18, Wynnsong 12, Carmike 10, Kernersville Countryside, Starmount, Creekside.
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY (

)
After moving into a suburban home, a couple becomes increasingly disturbed by a nightly demonic presence.
Rated: R for adult language.
Showing: Grand 18, Wynnsong 12, Starmount, Creekside.
SAW VI (not reviewed)
Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw's legacy. When the FBI draws closer to Hoffman, he is forced to set a game into motion, and Jigsaw's grand scheme is finally understood.
Rated: R for sequences of grisly violence and torture, and adult language.
Showing: Grand 18, Wynnsong 12, Carmike 10, Kernersville Countryside, Creekside.
SHORTS (not reviewed)
A young boy's discovery of a colorful, wish-granting rock causes chaos in his suburban town when jealous kids and scheming adults alike set out to get their hands on it.
Rated: PG for mild action and some rude humor.
Showing: Marketplace.
THE STEPFATHER (not reviewed)
Michael (Penn Badgley) returns home from military school to find his mother (Sela Ward) happily in love and living with her new boyfriend (Dylan Walsh). As the two men get to know each other, he becomes more and more suspicious of the man who is always there with a helpful hand.
Rated: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence, disturbing images, mature thematic material and brief sensuality.
Showing: Grand 18, Wynnsong 12, Carmike 10, Kernersville Countryside.
THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE (
)
Romantic drama Stars Michelle Nolden, Arliss Howard, Eric Bana, and Rachel McAdams.
Rated: PG-13 for thematic elements, brief disturbing images, nudity and sexuality.
Showing: Marketplace.
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE (

)
An adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's story, in which Max, a disobedient little boy sent to bed without his supper, creates his own world -- a forest inhabited by ferocious wild creatures that crown Max as their ruler.
Rated: PG for mild thematic elements, some adventure action and brief adult language.
Showing: Grand 18, Wynnsong 12, Carmike 10, Kernersville Countryside, Starmount, Liberty Twin, Creekside.
ZOMBIELAND (

)
Two men (Jesse Eisenberg and Woody Harrelson) have found a way to survive a world overrun by zombies.
Rated: R for horror violence/gore and adult language.
Showing: Grand 18.
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