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Featured Films This Week at Apex Theaters
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AVATAR
3D
(PG13)
-Baxter Ave Theatres
Avatar, a live action film in 3D from writer/director
James Cameron (Titanic, Aliens, The Terminator),
features a new generation of immersive special effects that
take us to a spectacular world beyond imagination, where a
reluctant hero embarks on a journey of redemption and
discovery as he leads an epic battle to save a civilization.
The story's hero is Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), a former
Marine confined to a wheelchair. Bitter and disillusioned,
he's still a warrior at heart. All Jake ever wanted was
something worth fighting for, and he finds it in the place he
least expected: on a distant world. Jake has been recruited to
join an expedition to the moon Pandora, which corporate
interests are strip-mining for a mineral worth $20 million per
kilogram on Earth. To facilitate their work, the humans use a
link system that projects a person's consciousness into a
hybrid of humans and Pandora's indigenous humanoids, the Na'vi.
This human-Na'vi hybrid—a fully living, breathing body that
resembles the Na'vi but possesses the individual human's
thoughts, feelings and personality—is known as an "avatar." In
his new avatar form, Jake can once again walk. His mission is
to interact with and infiltrate the Na'vi with the hope of
enlisting their help—or at least their acquiescence—in mining
the ore. Complications arise when Jake falls in love with a
beautiful Na'vi female (Zoe Saldana) who saves his life,
leading to an epic conflict that will decide nothing less than
the fate of an entire world.
Running Time: 2 hrs 52 mins
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THE HURT LOCKER (R) -Village
8 Theatres
The
Hurt Locker is a riveting, suspenseful portrait of the
courage under fire of the military’s unrecognized heroes: the
technicians of a bomb squad who volunteer to challenge the
odds and save lives doing one of the world’s most dangerous
jobs. Three members of the Army’s elite Explosive Ordnance
Disposal (EOD) squad battle insurgents and one another as they
search for and disarm a wave of roadside bombs on the streets
of Baghdad—in order to try and make the city a safer place for
Iraqis and Americans alike. Their mission is clear—protect and
save—but it’s anything but easy, as the margin of error when
defusing a war-zone bomb is zero. This thrilling and
heart-pounding look at the psychology of bomb technicians and
the effects of risk and danger on the human psyche is a
fictional tale inspired by real events by journalist and
screenwriter Mark Boal, who was embedded with a special bomb
unit in Iraq. In Iraq, it is soldier vernacular to speak of
explosions as sending you to “the hurt locker.” Acclaimed
director Kathryn Bigelow brings together groundbreaking
realistic action and intimate human drama in a landmark film
starring Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie and Brian Geraghty,
with cameo appearances by Ralph Fiennes, David Morse,
Evangeline Lilly and Guy Pearce. Nominated for 9 Academy
Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor
(Renner).
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DEAR JOHN (PG13)
-Baxter Avenue Theatres
Directed by Lasse Hallström (Chocolat, The Cider-House
Rules) and based on the novel by best-selling author
Nicholas Sparks, Dear John tells the story of John
Tyree (Channing Tatum), a young soldier home on leave, and
Savannah Curtis (Amanda Seyfried), the idealistic college
student he falls in love with during her spring vacation. Over
the next seven tumultuous years, the couple is separated by
John's increasingly dangerous deployments. While meeting only
sporadically, they stay in touch by sending a continuous
stream of love letters overseas – correspondence that
eventually triggers fateful consequences.
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CRAZY HEART (R)
-Baxter Avenue Theatres
Jeff
Bridges (The Men Who Stare at Goats, The Big Lebowski)
stars as the richly comic, semi-tragic romantic anti-hero Bad
Blake in the debut feature film from writer-director Scott
Cooper. Bad Blake is a broken-down, hard-living country music
singer who's had way too many marriages, far too many years on
the road and one too many drinks way too many times. And yet,
Bad can’t help but reach for salvation with the help of Jean
(Maggie Gyllenhaal), a journalist who discovers the real man
behind the musician. As he struggles down the road of
redemption, Bad learns the hard way just how tough life can be
on one man’s crazy heart. Co-starring Colin Farrell and Robert
Duvall.
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INVICTUS
(PG13) -Village 8 Theatres
Director Clint Eastwood tells the inspiring true story of how
Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) joined forces with the captain
of South Africa's rugby team, Francois Pienaar (Matt Damon),
to help unite their country. Newly elected President Mandela
knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in
the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people
together through the universal language of sport, Mandela
rallies South Africa's underdog rugby team as they make an
unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match. The
screenplay is by native South African writer Anthony Peckham
(Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes), based upon the book
Playing the Enemy by John Carlin.
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EDGE OF DARKNESS (R)
-Baxter Avenue Theatres
Edge
of Darkness is an emotionally charged thriller set at the
intersection of politics and big business. Thomas Craven (Mel
Gibson) is a veteran homicide detective for the Boston Police
Department and a single father. When his only child,
twenty-four year-old Emma (Bojana Novakovic, Drag Me to
Hell), is murdered on the steps of his home, everyone
assumes that he was the target. But he soon suspects
otherwise, and embarks on a mission to find out about his
daughter's secret life and her killing. His investigation
leads him into a dangerous, looking glass world of corporate
cover-ups, government collusion and murder — and to shadowy
government operative Darius Jedburgh (Ray Winstone, Sexy
Beast), who has been sent in to clean up the evidence.
Craven's solitary search for answers about his daughter's
death transforms into an odyssey of emotional discovery and
redemption.
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DID YOU HEAR
ABOUT THE MORGANS? (PG13) -Village 8 Theatres
The comedy
Did You Hear About the Morgans? follows a highly
successful Manhattan couple, Meryl and Paul Morgan (Sarah
Jessica Parker and Hugh Grant), whose almost-perfect lives
have only one notable failure—their dissolving marriage. But
the turmoil of their romantic lives is nothing compared to
what they are about to experience: they witness a murder and
become targets of a contract killer. The Feds, protecting
their witnesses, whisk away the Morgans from their beloved New
York to a tiny town in Wyoming, and a relationship that was on
the rocks threatens to end completely in the Rockies...unless,
in their new BlackBerry-free lives, the Morgans can slow down
the pace and rekindle the passion. Co-starring Sam Elliott,
Mary Steenburgen, Elisabeth Moss and Wilford Brimley.
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