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movies BY JASON BLAIR ART CINEMAS 492 East 13th 686-2458 www.bijou-cinemas.com schedule for June 25-July 1 “Unmissable. The best British BLOW film of the year.” MICHAEL CAINE is HARRY BROWN KNIGHT & DAY PG13 12:05, 1:20, 2:35, 3:50, 5:05, 6:20*, 7:35, 8:50*, 10:05 *EXCEPT TUES 6/29 GROWN UPS PG13 12:20, 1:35, 2:50, 4:05, 5:20 6:35, 7:50, 9:05, 10:20 TOY STORY 3 IN 3D G SPECIAL EVENT PRICING: $3.50 UPCHARGE ALL TICKETS 10:55, 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55 TOY STORY 3 G 11:50, 12:45, 2:35, 3:30, 5:20, 6:15, 8:05, 9:00 JONAH HEX PG13 11:00, 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:15 KARATE KID (2010) PG 11:05, 12:40, 2:15, 3:50, 5:25, 7:00, 8:35, 10:10 THE A-TEAM PG13 10:55, 12:20, 1:45, 3:10, 4:35, 6:05, 7:25*, 8:50, 10:15* *EXCEPT TUES 6/29 Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz in Knight and Day Bourne to Run TWILIGHT TRILOGY PG13 ONLY ON TUES 6/29 AT 7:15 & 7:16 PM THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE PG13 ONLY ON TUES 6/29 AT 12:02, 12:03 & 12:04 AM GET HIM TO THE GREEK R 7:15, 9:50 MARMADUKE PG 12:05, 2:25, 4:45 KILLERS PG13 7:30, 9:55 PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME PG13 11:10, 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30*EXCEPT TUES 6/29 SHREK FOREVER AFTER PG 12:10, 2:30, 4:50 ROBIN HOOD (2101) PG13 12:40, 3:55, 7:00, 10:10 IRON MAN 2 PG13 1:30, 4:25, 7:20, 10:05 Tom Cruise film is part spoof, mostly pleasure KNIGHT AND DAY: Directed by James Mangold. Written by Patrick O’Neill. Cinematography, Phedon Papamichael. Music, John Powell. Starring Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Peter Sarsgaard, Viola Davis and Paul Dano. 20th Century Fox, 2010. PG-13. 110 minutes. 44421 A rriving at a theater near you is Knight and Day and, hovering above it, the dark cloud that has become Tom Cruise. Weather seems a fi tting metaphor for a global phenomenon like Cruise — Forbes once ranked him as the world’s most powerful celebrity — particularly since his Oprah frolic, which saw his career go from lightning to lightning rod in an instant. Actually, wind is the better analogy: When it comes to a Tom Cruise fi lm, he’s the thing that makes it go and the thing that holds it back. It wasn’t long ago that Cruise was big — not Jesus big or even Beatles big, but Michael Jackson big — and like the King of Pop, when we sensed Cruise kneeling at his own altar, we sacrifi ced him upon it. Knight and Day isn’t Cruise’s best fi lm, but he’s easily the best thing in it, a fact that may not sway his hardcore detractors. (Actors, like presidents, have favorability ratings, and Cruise’s rating is equivalent to Bush’s record low in 2006.) For everyone else, Knight is arguably the strongest summer action fl ick since 2008’s Iron Man. Cruise plays Roy Miller, a Jason Bourne- like superagent who may have gone rogue for all the right reasons. What sets Roy apart from the Bournes and Bonds is that he’s something of a clown, a subversion of the spy hero similar to Owen Wilson’s whiny cowboy in Shanghai Noon. The skewed perspective invigorates Knight’s pedestrian conceit concerning which side Roy is on, a problem his hostage, the batty but glamorous June Havens (Cameron Diaz), endlessly tries to determine. Roy and June hook up in midair when a Starts Fri, 6/25— 5:00 & 7:15 Nightly Sun Mat 2:40 R THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE WEIRD Starting Fri, 6/25— 9:30 Nightly Sat Mat 2:00 R THE SECRET OF KELLS Starting Fri, 6/25— 6:30 Nightly Sat & Sun Mat 1:00 THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (unrated, but contains sexually violent scenes) Starting Fri, 6/25— 8:30 Nightly Sat & Sun Mat 3:00 planeful of assassins target Roy as June preens in the airplane bathroom. When she emerges, Roy struggles to explain the dead bodies: Apparently, June disarms him more effectively than any hit man. Roy is in possession of a superbattery called the Zephyr, a tiny, never-ending power supply. But the battery is simply the MacGuffi n which allows elements of the plot to come forward — and other actors, all of them recent headliners, from Viola Davis (Doubt) and Peter Sarsgaard (An Education) as Roy’s colleagues to Paul Dano (There Will be Blood) as the whiz kid responsible for inventing the battery. Whether Roy is a knight or a dragon is an open question throughout most of Knight, but the fi lm lives and dies with the chemistry betweem Cruise and Diaz, of which there is plenty. Sure, Diaz enters the fi lm with the slightest wisp of a Boston accent — the kiss of death in fi lms from Quiz Show to Shutter Island — which she jettisons a few moments later, never to recover. And if you want overtly ridiculous montages, Knight and Day has more than a couple. But it also has wit and humor aplenty, as well as music that at fi rst seems incongruous (tango during a shootout?) but in fact comes off fl awlessly. Speaking of couples, June eventually is less a hostage than an admirer. Whether she becomes Roy’s accomplice is another matter altogether. What’s worth doing is worth doing to excess in Knight and Day, and for the most part, it hits its targets. Mixing the trademark Bourne paranoia with the romance-on-the-run fare of North by Northwest, Knight’s appeal is in how easily it sends up the tradition of spies- in-love fi lms, including Cruise’s own Mission: Impossible cycle. If it did so more consistently, Knight would be a summer movie classic. Instead, it’s just a dose of ew much-needed summer fun. EUGENE’S ONLY DOWNTOWN THEATER HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON PG 11:35, 12:45, 2:05, 3:15, 4:35, 5:35, 7:05, 8:20, 9:35 A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET REMAKE R 10:20 PM THE BACK-UP PLAN PG13 11:45, 2:20, 4:55, 7:50, 10:15 DEATH AT A FUNERAL (2010) R 11:15, 1:45, 4:15, 7:40, 9:55 CLASH OF THE TITANS PG13 11:20, 1:50, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 FURRY VENGEANCE PG 12:00, 2:25, 5:10, 7:25, 9:50 KICK-ASS R 4:10, 10:00 THE LAST SONG PG 12:30, 7:15 DATE NIGHT PG13 11:40, 2:00, 4:30, 7:30, 9:45 THE BOUNTY HUNTER PG13 12:20, 4:00, 7:35, 10:10 HOT TUB TIME MACHINE R 12:10, 2:35, 5:00, 7:45, 10:05 ALICE IN WONDERLAND PG 11:25, 1:55, 4:25, 7:20 DIARY OF A WIMPY KID PG 11:55, 2:15, 4:40, 7:10, 9:30 TIX $5 $2 TIX Sun & Tues 21 & OVER & pub since 2008 THURS JUNE 24 – WED JUNE 30 THE ROAD 9:45 INVICTUS 7:30 SHUTTER ISLAND 5:00 Adv. Tix on Sale THE LAST AIRBENDER Adv. Tix on Sale TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE TOY STORY 3 IN REALD 3D - EVENT PRICING (G) ★ Fri. - Sun.(1045 1145 130 230) 415 515 700 800 935 1035 GROWN UPS (PG-13) ★ Fri. - Sun.(1100 1130 145 215) 430 500 715 745 945 1015 KNIGHT AND DAY (PG-13) ★ Fri. - Sun.(1050 1120 135 205) 420 450 705 735 955 1025 TOY STORY 3 (G) ★ Fri.(1115 200 345) 445 730 905 1005 Sat.(1115 100 200) 445 630 730 1005 Sun.(1115 200 345) 445 630 730 1005 OC & DA: TOY STORY 3 (G) ★ Fri.(100 PM) 630 PM Sat.(345 PM) 905 PM Sun.(100 PM) 905 PM JONAH HEX (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(1140 235) 510 755 1000 THE A-TEAM (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(1105 155) 435 725 1010 THE KARATE KID (PG) Fri. - Sun.(1155 340) 645 950 GET HIM TO THE GREEK (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sun.(1150 225) 505 740 1030 KILLERS (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(1110 140) 405 635 915 PRINCE OF PERSIA: SANDS OF TIME (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(115 355) 650 930 SHREK FOREVER AFTER (PG) Fri. - Sun.(1135 AM 220 PM) 440 PM IRON MAN 2 (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.720 PM 1020 PM Free Family Film Festival Tue & Wed 10AM THE GOONIES 7:30 “TEXT-A-BEER” 541-913-5733 ORDER DRINKS & FOOD RIGHT FROM YOUR SEAT “NO LONGER SNEAKING BEER INTO THE MOVIES SINCE 2008” 762-1700 | 180 E. 5TH AVE | DAVIDMINORTHEATER.COM Asian Food Market Largest Selection of Asian Groceries Seaweed, rice, noodles, frozen products, deli, snacks, drinks, sauces, spices, produce, housewares, and more. 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Tix on Sale TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE GROWN UPS (PG-13) ★ Fri. - Sun.(140) 430 720 1000 KNIGHT AND DAY (PG-13) ★ Fri. - Sun.(200) 500 740 1015 JONAH HEX (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.400 PM 640 PM 930 PM TOY STORY 3 (G) ★ Fri. - Sun.(110) 410 700 940 THE A-TEAM (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(130) 450 730 1010 THE KARATE KID (PG) Fri. - Sun.(1250 350) 650 950 KILLERS (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(150) 440 710 930 SHREK FOREVER AFTER (PG) Fri. - Sun.(120 PM) IMAGINARIUM OF DR. PARNASSUS 5:00, 9:45 SHOPPING CENTER 17th & Pearl FOOD MENU WILLAMETTE STREET OWN! EUGENE’S OWN N ! coming soon: HOLY ROLLERS Sunrise www.sunriseasianfood.com M-Th 9am-7pm•F 9am-8pm•Sa 9am-7pm•Su 10am-6pm 70 W. 29th Ave. Eugene • 541-343-3295 EUGENE WEEKLY JUNE 24, 2010 21
