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BY LOIS WADSWORTH 686-3229 For the week of Jan uary 30t h ! Sign-up for our weekly WebPage Update! www.bijou-cinemas.com 3 Academy Award Nominations including Best Supporting Actor and Best Actress MUST SOON E ! ND A MERICA IN Gateway Mall - Beltline @ Gateway 746-5202 - 1/30-2/5 Digital Sound in ALL Auditoriums PURCHASE TICKETS ONLINE AT CINEMARK.COM THE BIG BOUNCE PG13 CALENDAR GIRLS PG13 PERFECT SCORE PG13 COLD MOUNTAIN R YOU GO SERVED PG13 CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN PG 1:45, 2:20, 4:55, 7:55, 10:25 11:20, 1:55, 4:25, 7:25, 9:55 11:30, 2:00, 4:30, 7:30, 10:05 5:00, 7:10 & 9:20 Nightly Sat & Sun Mat 2:50 PG-13 Coming: MONSTER ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATED - BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR - ALEC BALDWIN WILLIAM H. 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Examiner EMAILS! Call or log on for showtimes Bill Murray DOLBY in STEREO SURROUND SOUND $6.50 General • $5.50 Student • $4.50 SC, Matinee & Wed. 752-4161 avaloncinema.com v m 20 JANUARY 29, 2004 Stuck in purgatory [11:30], 2:15, 5:00, 7:50, 10:35 6:40, 9:40 THE MISSING R [11:40], 2:45, 6:50, 9:55 TIMELINE PG13 [11:20], 2:10, 4:55, 7:35, 10:20 UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN PG13 [11:45], 2:30, 5:05, 7:45, 10:25 [ ] FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY ONLY [11:30] 2:05, 4:40, 7:25, 10:00 (12:10) 4:10 8:10 % Bad Luck THE COOLER: Directed by Wayne Kramer. Written by Wayne Kramer and Frank Hannah. Produced by Sean Furst, Michael A. Pierce. Cinematography, Jim Whitaker. Editor, Arthur Coburn. Music, Mark Isham. Production design, tony Corbett. Costumes, Kristin M. Burke. Starring William H. Macy, Alec Baldwin and Maria Bello. With Ron Livingston, Shawn Hatosy, Estella Warren, Paul Sorvino and Joey Fatone. Lions Gate Films, 2003. R. 101 minutes. [11:15], 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 (12:30 2:40) 4:50 7:00 9:10 HELD ! OVER Natalie (Maria Bello), Shelly (Alec Baldwin) and Bernie (William H. Macy) in the Shangri-La. JIM SHELDON ©2003 LIONS GATE ENTERTAINMENT. 492 E. 13th STEREO SURROUND SOUND IN ALL AUDITORIUMS 4-DAY ADVANCE TICKET SALES - NO PASSES -NO SUPERSAVERS SHOWTIMES AVAILABLE AT CINEMARK.COM E ven though no one smokes in theaters anymore (thanks be), I left this film feeling as if I had been stuck in a dark Vegas smoke ’n’ booze factory, where under flashy neon, oily men and lurid women lived and died by the ker-ching of the slots. The Shangri-La is definitely a throw- back to the bad old days, a “gambler’s casi- no” run by a cocky Shelly Kaplow (Alec Baldwin), who finds his way of life, and his casino’s, hanging in the balance. New suits have weaseled their way into becoming advisors for the mob guys he works for. Squeaky-clean looking guys like Larry Sokolv (Ron Livingston), an efficiency man whose eye is always on the bottom line. Charlene (Estella Warren) in tow. Of course the con in Mikey hits up the old man for some dough for the baby, which he builds into a huge pile of cash at the tables of the Shangri-La. Let’s say Mikey’s scam has serious side-effects and leave it at that. Everyone gets involved, and it’s a very bad scene. I have many complaints with this movie, although I recognize that some people will like the show and tell others to see it. But the movie’s violence is the kind I particu- larly hate to see, you know, like torture. And the sex between Natalie and Bernie turned me off. Both the sex and the violence are graph- ic in crude ways, unlike a much more wor- thy film that was briefly in town two weeks ago, In the Cut. That film has plenty of explicit sex and sex talk, but the director, Jane Campion, knows how to direct actors. Even Meg Ryan — I’ve wanted to slap her in every movie she’s been in except In the Cut — gives a mature, vulnerable perform- ance that has nothing to do with being cute. I left this film feeling as if I had been stuck in a dark Vegas smoke ’n’ booze factory, where under flashy neon, oily men and lurid women lived and died by the ker-ching of the slots. Bernie Lootz (William H. Macy) is a sad, lonely man who’s been working off a gambling debt he owed Shelly by being the casino’s cooler. Bernie is such bad luck, all he needs to do is appear at a winner’s table, and the guy starts losing. Benny puts out a winning streak faster than the fire truck squelches a grass fire in the rain. Bernie starts getting some attention from a good-looking cocktail waitress, Natalie (Maria Bello), which surprises him, and before long they become an odd cou- ple. Natalie seems as lonely in her own sexy, beautiful way as Bernie, and they do ordinary, everyday things as well as have sex. But like a bad penny, Mikey (Shawn Hatosy), Bernie’s kid he abandoned years earlier, turns up with his very pregnant wife In The Cooler, the actors are mis-directed, and the tone of the intimacy is lost. Bernie’s groans and crotch shots may be what some young dude imagines sex is like for an older man, but audiences don’t need to hear it, or see it, for god’s sake. Who knows? With a more professional writer and director, this movie could have crawled a few notches higher up the scale of Vegas-type movies. But with Goodfellas and Croupier occupying the top spot, no way The Cooler could end up anywhere near them. The movie is conditionally redeemed by its strange ending, but I was still glad to get out of the smoky bar, go home, shower, wash my hair and curl up with a good thriller. Dirty in a purely amateur, mobbed-up way, The Cooler opens Friday at the Bijou. ew
