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MOVIES B Y M O L LY T E M P L E T O N IMAX: CINDERELLA [CC,DV] (PG) ★ 700 PM 945 PM IMAX: CHAPPIE [CC,DV] (R) ★ 1230 PM 410 PM CINDERELLA [CC,DV] (PG) ★ 730 PM 1015 PM RUN ALL NIGHT [CC,DV] (R) 700 PM 940 PM CHAPPIE [CC,DV] (R) (1200 340) 645 935 THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL [CC,DV] (PG) (1145 240) 630 930 UNFINISHED BUSINESS [CC,DV] (R) (1215 230) 445 700 915 FOCUS [CC,DV] (R) (1130 205) 440 715 950 LAZARUS EFFECT [CC,DV] (PG-13) (1155 215) 430 655 1000 HOT TUB TIME MACHINE 2 [CC,DV] (R) 735 PM 1035 PM MCFARLAND, USA [CC,DV] (PG) (1150 250) 635 940 THE DUFF [CC,DV] (PG-13) (1140 210) 450 725 955 FIFTY SHADES OF GREY [CC,DV] (R) (1220) 420 720 1015 KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE [CC,DV] (R) (1240) 415 710 1010 JUPITER ASCENDING [CC,DV] (PG-13) 405 PM 1030 PM JUPITER ASCENDING 3D [CC,DV] (PG-13) ★ (1235 PM) 730 PM SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS: SPONGE OUT OF WATER [CC,DV] (PG) (1135 AM) 425 PM 925 PM SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS: SPONGE OUT OF WATER 3D [CC, (PG) ★ (200 PM) 650 PM PADDINGTON [CC,DV] (PG) (1215 PM 235 PM) 500 PM AMERICAN SNIPER [CC,DV] (R) (1225) 400 705 1025 THE IMITATION GAME [CC,DV] (PG-13) (1205 255) 640 945 FUNNY FANGED FOLK Vampires meet their mockumentary moment in What We Do in the Shadows V ampires: They’re just like us! They have terrible housemates who don’t do the dishes. They worry about looking good when they go out at night, even if the clubs they’re going to are dead and boring. They get twitchy when the cops come by. And they hate it when their roommates bring home uncool new friends. Of course, their dishes are solely used for blood, they worry about what they look like because they can’t see themselves in mirrors and they might be trying to hide dead bodies by hypnotizing the cops. Worst of all, the annoying new friend might be immortal. What We Do in the Shadows is co-written and directed by Flight of the Conchords’ Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, who directed Clement in 2007’s Eagle vs. Shark. This will tell some people everything they need to know about Shadows, which is as deadpan and mundane a vampire mockumentary set in New Zealand as you could ever hope to see. Waititi plays Viago, whose ingratiating, eager smile rarely falters; Clement is Vladislav, who looks like an extra-hirsute Nick Cave. Rounding out the household is Deacon (Jonathan Brugh), who strings along a human familiar, Jackie (Jackie van Beek), and Petyr (Ben Fransham), whose Cthulhu-like teeth render him pretty much mute. It’s Petyr who transforms an intended snack named Nick (Cori Gonzalez-Macuer) into a vampire for apparently no reason. Shadows has a drawn-out sketch feel that renders it more The Real World: Vampires! than This is Spinal Tap, but pop-culture vampires were more than due for a send-up. “I’m Twilight!” insists Nick, who likes to blab to everyone about his newfound taste for blood. And the leader of a low-key gang of werewolves yells at his pack to wear tracksuits when they’re going to change, so they don’t bust out of their jeans. Being a vampire is just another way of walking the world, folks. You just get to do it for a lot longer. Those blood dishes really pile up. (Bijou Metro) ■ In a strange, dark Iranian town, a young fellow named Arash lives with his junkie father and a cat he picks up in the film’s opening scenes. Elsewhere in Bad City, a girl lives alone, her walls papered with tokens from the ’80s. Iconic posters stare down at her (look closely, though; it’s not Madonna but Margaret Atwood).The movie she’s in is more than a little Western: The soundtrack playfully waves at Ennio Morricone, and Bad City is a hotbed of illegal activity, drugs, prostitution and little rich girls buy- ing X at dance clubs. There’s no mention of the law. There’s just a ditch full of bodies outside town. Silent, deadly, unknowable, the girl preys on other predators, rendering the world a safer place for other girls and a few good boys. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is often referred to as an Iranian Western vampire film, all of which is true but seems like a glib bit of shorthand. Shot in dreamy black- and-white and full of long silences, it’s a story about two loners connecting despite themselves. High as a kite and dressed as Dracula, Arash meets the girl somewhere in Bad City. He’s lost, and he’s not afraid of her. She’s wrapped in flowing black and coasting down streets on a THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL [CC,DV] (PG) 405 PM 700 PM 1000 PM FOCUS [CC,DV] (R) 415 PM 715 PM 950 PM LAZARUS EFFECT [CC,DV] (PG-13) 430 PM 725 PM 940 PM MCFARLAND, USA [CC,DV] (PG) (355 PM) 655 PM 955 PM Times For 03/12 © 2015 F ROM THE CRE ATOR OF ‘F LIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS’ “ ONE OF THE FLAT-OUT FUNNIEST FILMS IN AGES! ” PRESENTS WWW.WHATWEDOINTHESHADOWS.COM #DELICIOUSNECKS EXCLUSIVE ENGAGEMENT EUGENE The Bijou Metro STARTS FRIDAY , MARCH 13 TH (541) 686-2458 TIX $6 matinee $2 $1 off $2 Sun Tues $2 stud/SEN ALL AGES BEFORE 7PM FRI MAR 13 - WED MAR 18 MOVIE CAPSULES A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night CINDERELLA [CC,DV] (PG) ★ 700 PM 945 PM RUN ALL NIGHT [CC,DV] (R) 700 PM 1000 PM CHAPPIE [CC,DV] (R) (100) 400 700 1000 UNFINISHED BUSINESS [CC,DV] (R) (125) 425 725 1010 FOCUS [CC,DV] (R) (115) 415 715 950 LAZARUS EFFECT [CC,DV] (PG-13) (135) 430 730 945 THE DUFF [CC,DV] (PG-13) (1250 350) 645 915 KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE [CC,DV] (R) (1245 PM 340 PM) SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS: SPONGE OUT OF WATER [CC,DV] (PG) (330 PM) SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS: SPONGE OUT OF WATER (110 PM) 3D [CC, (PG) ★ skateboard she liberated from another local. Director Ana Lily Amirpour’s vampire isn’t the hyperliterate, worldly vampire of Jim Jarmush’s Only Lovers Left Alive, nor the dramatic soul of one of Buffy’s tormented boyfriends. Her existence is never explained, her peers unmentioned She’s a force of nature. She’s fantastic. (Bijou Metro) Leviathan It’s a bleak, tragic world in director Andrey Zvyagintsev’s coastal Russia — teens hang out in the rubble of an old church, garbage cans burn in the street, women work in a fusty fish factory, small-time politicians nurse delu- sions of grandeur. On its surface a tale of eminent domain, Leviathan’s central character, Koyla — a self- described simpleton with no discernible job — fights to keep his family’s land against a government and church in cahoots. There are threads of the biblical story Naboth’s Vineyard here, but at its core the film is about collective responsibility for the state of the world. As Koyla’s lawyer put it: “Everything is everyone’s fault.” Success begets success, but in Zvyagintsev’s Russia, tragedy begets more tragedy. (Bijou Metro) AMERICAN SNIPER (DIG) (R) 12:10, 3:40, 7:00, 10:10 CHAPPIE (DIG) (R) 11:00, 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:25 CINDERELLA (2015) (DIG) (PG) 11:10, 11:45, 12:35, 2:00, 2:40, 3:50, 4:50, 5:35, 6:35, 7:35, 8:25, 9:35, 10:20 FIFTY SHADES OF GREY (DIG) (R) 12:30, 4:10, 7:15, 10:15 FOCUS (DIG) (R) 11:20, 1:55, 4:35, 7:20, 9:55 JUPITER ASCENDING (DIG) (PG-13) 12:25, 3:45, 7:00, 10:05 KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE (DIG) (R) 12:20, 4:15, 7:25, 10:25 MCFARLAND, USA (DIG) (PG) 12:05, 3:35, 7:05, 10:05 PADDINGTON (DIG) (PG) 11:15, 1:45, 4:20, 6:55, 9:50 RUN ALL NIGHT (DIG) (R) 11:05, 2:05, 4:55, 7:45, 10:30 THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (DIG) (PG) 12:15, 3:30, 7:10, 10:15 THE DUFF (DIG) (PG-13) 11:30, 2:10, 4:45, 7:20, 10:00 THE LAZARUS EFFECT (DIG) (PG-13) 11:35, 2:15, 5:10, 7:55, 10:30 THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE OUT OF WATER (3D) (PG) SPECIAL EVENT PRICING: $3.00 UPCHARGE ALL TICKETS 12:00, 10:10 THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE OUT OF WATER (DIG) (PG) 2:25, 5:05, 7:40 UNFINISHED BUSINESS (DIG) (R) 11:25, 2:20, 5:00, 7:50, 10:20 LUCY (3:35) WHIPLASH 7:35 IDA (3:35) IDA 7:35 THE THEORY FOXCATCHER OF EVERYTHING 5:10 5:10 NIGHTCRAWLER ST. 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