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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 9PM
Amy Clawson and The Boys
Country-western star from Arkansas performs
originals from her 20 year career. $5 at the door.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 9PM
Hookah Stew
John Michael Young can play them all ... and does:
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Fresh Fish/Italian - Authentic Oregon since 1911
32 DECEMBER 21, 2006
Black Christmas: Remake of the
1974 horror film stars Michelle
Trachtenberg (Buffy the Vampire
Slayer’s Dawn) as one of a group
of sorority sisters being menaced
by a psycho … during Christmas
break! R. Cinemark. Opens Dec.
25.
Good Shepherd, The: Robert
DeNiro heads back behind the
camera to direct a story about
the birth of the CIA, starring Matt
Damon as one of the agency’s
founders and Angelina Jolie as
his frustrated wife. R. Cinema
World. Cinemark.
Grateful Dead, The: The only
known professionally recorded
video from the 1972 European
tour is of an April 17, 1972 per-
formance in Denmark. Part of
the “In-Concert” series. Not
rated. Bijou LateNite.
Inconvenient Truth, An:
Following the 2000 election, Al
Gore changed tack, turning his
focus to the worldwide crisis that
is global warming. Director Davis
Guggenheim combines footage
of Gore’s traveling multimedia
presentation on climate crisis
with Gore’s personal story, creat-
ing an effective and engaging
film. PG. 7 pm Dec. 28, Cozmic
Pizza. Free. 44441 (6/15)
Marie
Antoinette: Sofia
Coppola’s third movie follows
Marie Antoinette (Kirsten Dunst),
who became the queen of France
as a teenager. The film is said to
be a confection, a romp, anachro-
nistically set to ’80s New
Romantic tunes and with some
actors using their own accents.
PG-13. Movies 12. 44421
(10/26)
Night at the Museum: When
down-on-his-luck Larry (Ben
Stiller) gets a job as the night
guard at a museum, he sure
doesn’t expect the exhibits to
come alive at night. There’s
something very Jumanji about
this. PG. Cinema World.
Cinemark.
One Night With the King: The
biblical story of Esther is twisted
into a manipulative teen movie
about learning that “all of life is
under God’s command.” We wish
we were kidding. PG. Movies 12.
Prestige, The: Two magicians
(Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman)
see their slight friendship turn to
rivalry in Christopher Nolan’s
(Batman Begins) enthralling film.
Competition grows as the men
do, each trying to outdo the
other’s performance. With
Scarlett Johansson, Michael
Caine and David Bowie. PG-13.
Movies 12. 44441 (10/26)
Rocky Balboa: Rocky (Sylvester
Stallone) returns for what’s sup-
posed to be the last Rocky film.
When a computer simulation
shows that the young Rocky
would likely have taken down the
current champion, the aging
Rocky agrees to an exhibition
bout. PG. Cinema World.
Cinemark.
Shut Up & Sing: Barbara Kopple
and Cecilia Peck’s documentary
look at the unexpected turn the
Dixie Chicks’ career took in 2003
is engrossing on all the right lev-
els, turning an observant eye on
the complicated intersection of
art and politics while leaving
room for the group’s personal
stories. R. Bijou. See review this
issue.
We Are Marshall: Matthew
McConaughey and Matthew Fox
(Lost) play two coaches trying to
revive the Marshall College foot-
ball team following a horrifying
crash that killed most of the pre-
vious team and staff. Oddly, this
based-on-a-true-story flick is di-
rected by McG (Charlie’s Angels).
PG. Cinema World. Cinemark.
Films open the Friday follow-
ing EW publication date unless
otherwise noted. See archived
reviews at www.eugene-
weekly.com
CONTINUING:
Apocalypto: Mel Gibson follows
The Passion of the Christ with
another violent epic set in an an-
cient time (something that looks
vaguely like the end of the Mayan
Empire) and filmed in an unusual
language.
R.
Cinemark.
42111 (12/14)
Barnyard: When the farmer’s
away, the cows will … order piz-
zas and throw a party? Don’t
think too much about this ani-
mated feature or you might
begin to wonder why Otis (Kevin
James) has udders. PG. Movies
12.
Blood Diamond: Leonardo
DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou and
Jennifer Connelly star in Edward
Zwick’s (Glory) film about dia-
mond mining in Sierra Leone in
the 1990s. R. Cinemark. See re-
view this issue.
Borat: Sacha Baron Cohen (of
“Da Ali G Show”) plays the title
character, a Kazakhstani re-
porter creating a documentary
while road-tripping across the
U.S. The subtitle, “Cultural
Learnings of American for Make
Benefit Glorious Nation of
Kazakhstan,” ought to tell you
something. R. Movies 12.
44441 (11/9)
Casino Royale: Bond gets blond
as Daniel Craig (Munich,
Infamous) steps into the role in a
rebooting of the whole franchise,
turning it into something darker
and, well, better. With Judi Dench
and Eva Green. PG-13. Cinemark.
44421 (11/22)
Charlotte’s
Web: Dakota
Fanning plays Fern, the little girl
who loves her pig Wilbur (voice of
Dominic Scott Kay) more than
anything. Julia Roberts voices
Charlotte the spider, who helps
Wilbur escape his fate. G. Cinema
World. Cinemark.
Deck the Halls: Matthew
Broderick and Danny DeVito face
off when DeVito’s character de-
cides to build the world’s biggest
holiday light display. With Kristin
Davis, Kristin Chenoweth and
Alia Shawkat. PG. Movies 12.
Déja Vu: As far as we can tell,
this Jerry Bruckheimer-pro-
duced, Tony Scott-directed
thriller has something to do with
traveling four days back in the fu-
ture to stop a boat exploding. Or
maybe it’s just looking four days
back. Clever preview, either way.
Stars Denzel Washington and Val
Kilmer. PG-13. Cinemark.
Employee of the Month: Dane
Cook and Dax Shepard are two
slacker clerks working to become
the employee of the month in
hopes of getting in Jessica
Simpson’s pants. Ah, cinematic
brilliance. PG-13. Movies 12.
Eragon: Adaptation of young
novelist Christopher Paolini’s
first thick tome stars John
Malkovich as an apparently
campy evil king. Newcomer
Edward Speelers plays the title
character, who bonds with a
dragon named Saphira and, um,
saves the world? Or at least the
kingdom. Just a guess. PG-13.
Cinema World. Cinemark.
Flyboys:
James
Franco
(Spiderman, “Freaks and Geeks”)
heads up a cast of chiseled young
men playing the Lafayette
Escadrille, a group of American
pilots who flew for the French
during WWI. PG-13. Movies 12.
Guardian, The: A hotshot young
Coast Guard rescue swimmer
(Ashton Kutcher) learns how to
be a real hero from a retired
swimmer who lost his team in an
accident (Kevin Costner). PG-13.
Movies 12.
Happy Feet: Warner Bros.
chases some March of the
Penguins dough with this ani-
mated film, starring Elijah Wood
as a cute lil’ guy in search of his
soul mate. (OK, so they were
working on this one first. Still.)
With Robin Williams, Hugh
Jackman, Nicole Kidman. PG.
Cinemark.
Holiday, The: Man-troubled
Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet
swap houses for Christmas break
in the new film from Nancy
Meyers (Something’s Gotta Give)
– and naturally, each finds a new
feller (Jude Law and Jack Black)
on the other’s home turf. PG-13.
Cinema World. Cinemark.
Nativity Story, The: Catherine
Hardwicke (Thirteen) directs
Whale Rider’s Keisha Castle-
Hughes as Mary in the Biblical
story of Jesus’ birth. With
Shohreh Aghdashloo and Ciarán
Hinds. PG. Cinemark.
Open Season: Sony breaks into
the animation game with the
story of a clueless grizzly bear
(Martin Lawrence) whose friend
Elliot (Ashton Kutcher) lures him
into the wild life. PG. Movies 12.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead
Man’s Chest: Johnny Depp
reprises his role as over-the-top
swashbuckler Jack Sparrow in
the second Pirates film. Orlando
Bloom and Keira Knightley are
the in-love eye candy, with Bill
Nighy all betentacled as watery
bad guy Davy Jones. PG-13.
Movies 12. 44411 (7/13)
Pursuit of Happyness, The: Will
Smith stars as a down-on-his-
luck father who strives to make it
as a stockbroker while facing
eviction and raising his son
(Smith’s real-life son Jaden). PG-
13. Cinema World. Cinemark.
Queen, The: Stephen Frears’
movie about the shifting desires
and threats of Britain’s public
and the differences in Tony
Blair’s (Michael Sheen) and
Queen Elizabeth II’s (Helen
Mirren) responses to the death of
Princess Diana is a grand, usually
subtle fiction that gets at a lot of
truth. PG-13. Bijou. 44421
(11/30)
Santa Clause 3, The: Santa
(Tim Allen) faces off against Jack
Frost (Martin Short), who’s trying
to take over Christmas. G.
Cinemark.
Shortbus: Hedwig and the
Angry Inch star John Cameron
Mitchell directs a cast of young,
pretty, sexually troubled (and ad-
venturous) New Yorkers who
connect at an underground club
called Shortbus. Explicit, warm,
funny and refreshingly sex-posi-
tive. Not rated. Bijou LateNite.
Tenacious D in the Pick of
Destiny: Tenacious D (Jack
Black and Kyle Gass) head off on
a musical adventure obtain the
Pick of Destiny and thereby be-
come the Greatest Band on
Earth. It’s a biopic! Sorta. R.
Movies 12.