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Arts & Entertainment
Kam’s Kapsules: Movies Opening Friday, March 9
BIG BUDGET FILMS
Gringo (R for sexuality,
violence and pervasive
profanity) Action-com-
edy set south of the bor-
der where a medical mar-
ijuana salesman (David
Oyelowo) is forced to sur-
vive by his wits after be-
ing kidnapped by a ruth-
less Mexican drug cartel.
With Charlize Theron,
Joel Edgerton, Thandie
Newton and Amanda
Kam
Williams
Kam’s
Kapsules
Movie
Reviews
material) Action thriller
about a gang of computer
hackers who conspire to
steal $600 million from
the U.S. Treasury during
‘A Wrinkle in Time’
Seyfried. (In English,
Spanish and French with
subtitles)
The
(PG-13
lence,
fanity
Hurricane Heist
for action, vio-
destruction, pro-
and suggestive
a Category 5 hurricane.
Featuring Maggie Grace,
Toby Kebbell and Ryan
Kwanten.
The Strangers: Prey
at Night (R for profani-
ty, terror and violence)
Horror sequel about a
family that finds itself
staked by three masked
psychopaths (Emma Bel-
lomy, Damian Maffei
and Lea Enslin) after be-
ing stranded at a seclud-
ed, mobile home park.
Co-starring
Christina
Hendricks, Martin Hen-
derson, Bailee Madison
and Lewis Pullman.
A Wrinkle in Time
(PG for peril and mature
themes) Ava DuVernay
adapted this coming-of-
age fantasy from Made-
leine L’Engle’s children’s
novel of the same name
revolving
around
a
young girl (Storm Reid)
who, accompanied by a
classmate (Levi Miller),
her little brother (Deric
McCabe) and three astral
travelers (Oprah Win-
frey, Mindy Kaling and
Reese Witherspoon), em-
barks on an epic quest to
a distant planet in search
of her missing scientist
father (Chris Pine) With
Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mi-
chael Pena and Zach Gal-
ifianakis.
3 University of Oregon Graduates
Win at Academy Awards
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Three gradu-
ates of the University of Oregon were
winners at the Academy Awards.
The winners on Sunday included
filmmaker James Ivory, Jake Swantko
and Richard Hoover, The Eugene Regis-
ter-Guard reported .
Ivory, a four-time nominee, took
home the award for best adapted
screenplay for the film “Call Me By
Your Name.” At 89, the 1951 graduate
and Klamath Falls native became the
oldest ever Oscar winner in a compet-
itive category.
Swantko, a 30-year-old graduate of
the university’s School of Journalism
and Communication, worked as direc-
tor of photography on best documen-
tary winner “Icarus.” The film was his
first major movie credit.
Hoover, a 1980 graduate, shared an
Oscar for best visual effects on “Blade
Runner 2049.”
SHOWTIMES
HOSTILES (R)
Fri-Thu: 4:05, 9:30
MARY AND THE WITCH’S FLOWER
(MEARI TO MAJO NO HANA) (R)
Fri-Thur: 4:55
PADDINGTON 2 (PG)
Fri-Thur: 2:10
MOLLY’S GAME (R)
Fri-Thur: 11:20, 6:40
Swantko, in an interview Monday,
described the surreal transformation
of the movie that became Icarus as a
“
It was a pretty
simple idea for
a movie
“perfect storm” of circumstances that
helped bolster its success.
“It was a pretty simple idea” for a
movie, Swantko said. “It became a once-
in-a-lifetime kinda story.”
Swantko said the positive reaction the
film got at the 2017 Sundance Film Fes-
tival was his first hint of the success it
might achieve. Netflix later would buy
the rights for a reported $5 million.
Still, the best documentary catego-
ry at the Oscars is an “unpredictable,”
Swantko said, and “we knew it was out
of our control.”
The Week of
Friday, March 9 through
Thursday, March 15
FERDINAND (PG)
Fri-Thur: 11:30
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (PG-13)
Fri-Thur: 1:50, 6:50, 9:25
COCO (PG)
Fri-Thur: 11:25, 4:25, 7:10
PLANET OF THE APES (1968) (G)
Fri-Thur: 1:40, 9:55
$4 adults, $3 senior citizens (65+), $3 for
kids (12 & under)
7818 SE Stark St, Portland, OR 97215
503-252-1707 • AcademyTheaterPdx.com
Babysitting: Children 2 to 8 years old. Fri: shows starting between 3:30 pm and 8 pm. Sat - Sun: shows starting
between 1 pm and 8 pm. $9.50 per child for the length of the movie. Call to reserve a spot, no drop ins.
‘The Forgiven’
INDEPENDENT &
FOREIGN FILMS
The Forgiven (Unrat-
ed) Truth and recon-
ciliation drama, set in
South Africa after the
fall of the Apartheid re-
gime, revolving around
Archbishop
Desmond
Tutu’s (Forest Whitaker)
meeting with a confessed
murderer (Eric Bana)
seeking
redemption.
Cast includes Jeff Gum,
Terry Norton and Rob
Gough.
Itzhak (Unrated) Rev-
erential biopic chroni-
cling the life and times of
Itzhak Perlman who be-
came a world-renowned
classical violinist despite
contracting polio at the
age of 4.
The Leisure Seeker (R
for sexuality and mature
themes) Adaptation of
Michael Zadoorian’s bit-
tersweet best seller about
a couple of ailing octoge-
narians (Helen Mirren
and Donald Sutherland)
who ignore doctors’ or-
ders to embark on a fi-
nal cross-country trip
in their trusty RV. With
Kirsty Mitchell, Janet
Moloney
Mikel.
and
Joshua
Thoroughbreds (R for
profanity, sexual refer-
ences, drug use, bloody
images and disturbing
behavior)
Suspense
thriller, set in subur-
ban Connecticut, about
a couple of privileged
BFFs (Olivia Cooke and
Anya Taylor-Joy) who
bring out the worst in
each when they reunite
as troubled teens after
spending years apart.
With Paul Sparks, Fran-
cie Swift and the late An-
ton Yelchin.