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MOVIES B Y M O L LY T E M P L E T O N VALAR MORGHULIS IMAX: TOMORROWLAND [CC,DV] (PG) ★ 700 PM 1000 PM IMAX: AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON 3D [CC,DV] (PG-13) ★ 1205 PM 330 PM POLTERGEIST [CC,DV] (PG-13) 830 PM 1055 PM POLTERGEIST 3D [CC,DV] (PG-13) ★ 800 PM 1025 PM MAD MAX: FURY ROAD [CC,DV] (R) ★ (1215 350) 645 950 MAD MAX: FURY ROAD 3D [CC,DV] (R) ★ (1145 1245 235) 420 615 715 920 1020 PITCH PERFECT 2 [CC,DV] (PG-13) (1105 1130 1230 140 210) 400 450 700 730 940 1010 HOT PURSUIT [CC,DV] (PG-13) (1200 220) 440 705 930 AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON [CC,DV] (PG-13) ★ (1135 1235 300) 410 630 735 945 1045 AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON 3D [CC,DV] (PG-13) ★ (1110 230) 600 915 THE AGE OF ADALINE [CC,DV] (PG-13) (1210 255) 650 935 PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 [CC,DV] (PG) 720 PM 955 PM EX MACHINA (R) (1100) 430 710 1000 FURIOUS 7 [CC,DV] (PG-13) ★ (1155 325) 635 1005 WOMAN IN GOLD [CC,DV] (PG-13) (1220 315) 625 925 (155 PM) 435 PM HOME [CC,DV] (PG) ★ POLTERGEIST [CC,DV] (PG-13) 1000 PM POLTERGEIST 3D [CC,DV] (PG-13) ★ 800 PM MAD MAX: FURY ROAD [CC,DV] (R) ★ (1230 PM) 1010 PM MAD MAX: FURY ROAD 3D [CC,DV] (R) ★ (330 PM) 715 PM PITCH PERFECT 2 [CC,DV] (PG-13) (100) 410 700 945 HOT PURSUIT [CC,DV] (PG-13) (130) 420 720 935 AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON [CC,DV] (PG-13) ★ (1215 340) 645 1000 AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON 3D [CC,DV] (PG-13) ★ (1245) 400 730 1025 THE AGE OF ADALINE [CC,DV] (PG-13) (110 PM) 400 PM 640 PM PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 [CC,DV] (PG) (120 PM 350 PM) MAD MAX: FURY ROAD [CC,DV] (R) ★ 415 PM 1010 PM MAD MAX: FURY ROAD 3D [CC,DV] (R) ★ 715 PM PITCH PERFECT 2 [CC,DV] (PG-13) (350 PM) 700 PM 1000 PM PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 [CC,DV] (PG) 430 PM 655 PM 930 PM 440 PM 725 PM 1005 PM EX MACHINA (R) Times For 05/21 © 2015 Women rule, men drool in Mad Max: Fury Road T he apocalypse has come, and it’s the work of men. This shouldn’t really come as a surprise, after three Mad Max movies that saw the world getting progressively darker (even as the third movie went to a strangely playful place that felt more Goonies than Road Warrior). It’s unclear when, exactly, Fury Road takes place in the Mad Max timeline, but it doesn’t matter. The world is in ruins, and Max (Tom Hardy) is (still) just trying to survive in what’s left of it. Survival is a slippery beast. Captured by a gang of strange pale men, Max finds himself prisoner in the Citadel, a towering keep from which Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne) rules a broken society. He keeps breeders, fertile young women forced into a life of sexual servitude, and raises warboys, shirtless white specters riddled with tumors. The warboys drive TOM HARDY IS the most ingeniously cobbled MAD MAX together vehicles: souped-up, spiky, loaded with drums and weapons and, in one memorable case, what are probably the last functional guitar amps on earth. One must have a soundtrack when one rides off to war. And to war these men go when Joe’s prize driver, Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron), veers off course on a gas run. Her war rig, a jacked-up 18-wheeler so battle-ready it sports a VW bug as a defensive turret, is dotted with hidden weapons — and carrying more than it seems. Out from the belly of the beast crawl Joe’s five precious wives, wrapped in gauze, done with captivity. The backstory to this liberation comes in snippets throughout the very light-on- dialogue film, but much of it you can fill in yourself; it’s in Theron’s eyes, flinty and sharp, and the way she throws herself into battle. It’s in the willingness of pregnant Angharad the Splendid (Rosie Huntington-Whiteley) to act as a shield and in the bitterness on the face of Toast the Knowing (Zoe Kravitz) as she counts the few bullets left to her team. And where is Max? To start, he’s a prisoner strapped to the front of a warboy’s car, a mobile blood donor to sickly but enthusiastic Nux (Nicholas Hoult). As the movie rattles across the desert, both men find themselves on the side of the furies, who seek the mythic “green place” with many mothers. What they find is not what was expected, but it fuels a climactic turnaround, the chase reversed, the goals reshaped. For two hours, Fury Road shrieks along, a song of exploding metal and flying skulls, part steampunk, part ’80s heavy metal video, occasionally nodding to the movies that came before (what’s with the obsession with other people’s boots?). It puts different kinds of power in the hands of women and depicts, in gloriously ugly detail, a broken society of men living on nothing but destruction and rage. “Who killed the world?” the film asks, and it is not shy about the answer. ■ Now playing at Valley River Center, Cinemark 17 DOWNTOWN EUGENE Asian Food Market Largest Selection of Asian Groceries HISTORIC SITES TOUR Seaweed, rice, noodles, frozen products, deli, snacks, drinks, sauces, spices, produce, housewares, and more. We carry groceries from Holland, India, Pakistan and Polynesia Sushi & Asian deli take-out Memorial Day Sale 10% OPEN MEMORIAL DAY OFF EVERYTHING IN THE STORE! * Excluding rice, case prices and phone cards. Offer expires 5/27/15 www.sunriseasianfood.com M-Th 9am-7pm•F 9am-8pm•Sa 9am-7pm•Su 10am-6pm 70 W. 29th Ave. Eugene • 541-343-3295 20 May 21, 2015 • eugeneweekly.com Saturday, May 30th Starts at 10am at the Shelton McMurphey Johnson House More info: www.lanearts.org SPONSORS:
