Starts Friday
Monsters vs. Aliens (PG)
1:00, 4:00
Observe and Report (R)
7:00, 10:00
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Bee Movie (PG)
Tue only 10:00 a.m.
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (3-D) (PG)
12:40, 1:35, 2:50, 3:45, 5:00, 5:55, 7:10, 8:10. 9:30, Late show Fri-Sat 10:20
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2-D) (PG)
1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40, 9:50
My Sister’s Keeper (PG-13)
1:45, 4:20, 7:10, 9:45
Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian (PG)
1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 9:40
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (R)
1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 9:40
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (PG-13)
12:30, 1:00, 1:30, 3:45, 4:15, 4:45, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 10:15
Up 3-D (PG)
12:15, 2:40, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55
Away We Go (R)
11:35, 2:15, 4:45, 7:50, 10:30
The Brothers Bloom (PG-13)
11:25, 2:00, 4:40, 7:15, 10:05
Easy Virtue (PG-13)
2:05, 4:20, 7:20, 10:25
The Hangover (R)
11:15, 1:45, 4:25, 7:35, 10:00
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (3-D) (PG)
11:30, 1:50, 4:15, 7:10, 9:30
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2-D) (PG)
11:50, 2:20, 4:55, 7:40, 10:10
My Sister’s Keeper (PG-13)
11:05. 1:40, 4:15, 7:30, 10:15
The Proposal (PG-13)
11:20, 1:55, 4:35, 7:25, 9:55
Public Enemies (R)
11:15, 2:35, 7:15, 10:20
Tranformers: Revenge of the Fallen (PG-13)
11:00, 12:30, 2:30, 4:00, 7:00, 7:30, 10:15, 10:45
Up (2-D_ (PG)
11:50, 2:25, 5:00, 7:55, 10:10
Year One (PG-13)
11:10
The Hangover (R)
6:05, 8:50, 11:00
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2-D) (PG)
12:05, 2:50, 6:05, 8:40, 10:45
My Sister’s Keeper (PG-13)
12:00, 2:50
The Proposal (PG-13)
12:15, 3:00, 6:00, 8:45, 11:20
Public Enemies (R)
11:45, 2:45, 6:00, 9:20
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (PG-13)
11:00, 2:30, 5:55, 9:30
Transformers: Rise of the Fallen (PG-13)
1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00
Away We Go (R)
4:45, 9:40
The Hangover (R)
2:10, 4:35, 7:30, 10:00
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (3-D) (PG)
12:55, 3:10, 5:30, 7:45, 10:00
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2-D) (PG)
1:15, 3:40, 6:05, 8:20, 10:35
My Sister’s Keeper (PG-13)
1:00, 3:25, 6:00, 8:30
The Proposal (PG-13)
12:55, 3:25, 6:20, 8:50
Public Enemies (R)
12:45, 1:20, 3:35, 4:10, 6:25, 7:05, 9:15, 9:55
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (R)
1:40, 6:50
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (PG-13)
12:30, 1:05, 3:45, 4:25, 7:00, 7:30, 10:15
Up (2-D) (PG)
1:20, 3:35, 5:55, 8:15
Year One (PG-13)
4:15, 9:25
Starts Friday
Every Little Step (PG-13)
1:20, 4:20, 7:20, Late show Fri-Sat only 9:30
Whatever Works (PG-13)
1:00, 4:00, 7:00, Late show Fri-Sat 9:15
Starts Friday
The Proposal (PG-13)
4:00, 7:00
Starts Friday
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (PG-13)
2:00 (Sat-Sun), 4:30, 7:15
Hannah Montana: The Movie (G)
2:00 (Sat-Sun), 4:30, 7:00
Monsters vs. Aliens (PG)
2:00 (Sat-Sun), 4:30, 7:00
Obsessed (PG-13)
2:00 (Sat-Sun), 4:30, 7:00
Away We Go (R)
2:00, 4:40, 7:40, 10:10
The Hangover (R)
1:50, 5:00, 7:50, 10:15
The Proposal (PG-13)
1:40, 4:20, 7:20, 9:50
Public Enemies (R)
1:00, 1:30, 4:00, 4:30, 7:00, 7:30, 10:00, 10:30
Star Trek (PG-13)
1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:05
Year One (PG-13)
1:20, 4:50, 8:00, 10:25
Cranky Hanke’s Screening Room: The Allure of the Obscure
Ken Hanke | 07/03/2009 | 5 Comment(s)
As anyone who read last week’s column knows, I spent the past weekend at the Monster Bash in Pennsylvania where I had dinner with Jonathan Haze (Seymour in the original Little Shop of Horrors [1960]) and drinks with Ron (grandson of the Wolf Man) and Linda (granddaughter-in-law of the Wolf Man) Chaney and held the door open for Lou Ferrigno. I also spent far too much money on cinematic esoterica.
Cranky Hanke’s Screening Room: Bashing at the Monster Bash
Ken Hanke | 06/26/2009 | 5 Comment(s)
Yes, it’s my annual outing to the Monster Bash, which, for anyone who doesn’t know, is an affair where folks like myself get together to debate such things as the merits of Bela Lugosi’s performance as the Monster in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man. We do this to prove to the Trekkies and Star Warvians that they don’t have a lock on geekdom. It’s also proving to me that I’m getting too old for this.
Cranky Hanke’s Screening Room: Remakes, rethinkings, rehashings
Ken Hanke | 06/19/2009 | 47 Comment(s)
Is there anything calculated to set off the movie enthusiast like a remake? We just passed a week that offered us a new-and-not-improved version of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) on apparently no better excuse than changing the title to The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3. Presumably in our more frenzied time, it simply takes too long to spell out the numbers.
Cranky Hanke’s Screening Room: Skeptical Souther looks ahead
Justin Souther | 06/12/2009 | 36 Comment(s)
It seems that Ken is inundated this week with family, so I’ve been given the keys to this week’s Screening Room. We toyed with the idea of still claiming that he authored the column this week and seeing if anyone would catch on, but I decided I’d rather see if I can get fewer views than our Halloween article did. I have faith that you and I together, dear readers, can.
Cranky Hanke’s Screening Room: Repeat offenders
Ken Hanke | 06/05/2009 | 73 Comment(s)
Most of us have them. There’s even one of those endless polls you find on Facebook centered on the “five movies you’re most likely to watch over and over.” (I don’t know why Facebook is fixated on the number five, but they group everything in fives. It’s probably Satanic in some way.) And it’s considered completely normal to have such a list.
Cranky Hanke’s Screening Room: Rethinkings, reworkings and other heresies
Ken Hanke | 05/29/2009 | 33 Comment(s)
Last week the trailer for Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes (slated for a Christmas Day release) hit theater screens and the internet. For those not following such things, Sherlock Holmes stars Robert Downey, Jr. as Holmes and Jude Law as Dr. Watson. It’s very obviously a rethinking of the much loved Conan Doyle characters. The tone is comedic and the trailer suggests considerably more action than is generally associated with the detecting duo. Not surprisingly, this has caused much consternation among the Sherlockian set.
Cranky Hanke’s Screening Room: Movies that make you cry
Ken Hanke | 05/22/2009 | 89 Comment(s)
Not so long ago I happened to see a letter written to a theater chain lambasting them for the practice of bringing the lights up before the credits ended. It should be noted that the customer wasn’t some diehard cineaste who just has to know who drove the honeywagon and who catered the food. No, his complaint had to do with his personal discomfort in cases where the movie had an emotional impact on him, and he liked to be able to sit in the dark to compose himself. In other words, he didn’t wish anyone to witness his shame at having been moved to tears by what he’d just seen.
Cranky Hanke’s Screening Room: When is a movie “old?”
Ken Hanke | 05/15/2009 | 44 Comment(s)
Just this past week someone posted a comment expressing a preference for not going too far back in time when it came to watching movies. That’s fine. It’s a personal choice—and one that most people make. What I’m curious about, though, is how people define the term “old movie.”
Cranky Hanke’s Screening Room: Pleasures of the pre-code era
Ken Hanke | 05/08/2009 | 11 Comment(s)
About 20 years ago I was in a kind of partnership with another film historian who told me that, no, there wasn’t a market for a book on pre-code movies. I can only wonder what he thinks today after MGM has released three sets of pre-code movies and Universal just put out their first. Either I was ahead of my time, or he was just simply wrong.
Cranky Hanke’s Screening Room: Would Asheville support a rep house?
Ken Hanke | 05/01/2009 | 27 Comment(s)
The question of whether or not Asheville would support a theater—or a part of a theater—devoted to showing older movies—by which I mean movies not currently in release—has come up several times in discussions I’ve had with local theater managers. It’s a question to which there is no easy answer, though input from moviegoing readers might offer some clues in the matter.
Cranky Hanke’s Screening Room: How do you “read” a movie?
Ken Hanke | 04/24/2009 | 7 Comment(s)
Let me say from the onset that this particular column isn’t aimed at moviegoers who like to argue that certain people (like myself) “overthink” movies. It’s not aimed at passive viewers. No, it’s aimed at people who view the process of movie watching as a kind of inner dialogue between the viewer and the filmmaker.
Cranky Hanke’s Screening Room: We’re ready for our close-ups, Mr. DeMille
Ken Hanke | 04/17/2009 | 21 Comment(s)
As a kind of passive guilty pleasure, Wife Swap held just the right level of appeal to make me say yes. So I immediately called Justin Souther and asked, “Hey, you wanna be on Wife Swap?”
Cranky Hanke’s Screening Room: Illegal immigrant movies
Ken Hanke | 04/10/2009 | 17 Comment(s)
By and large, even a movie savvy town like Asheville simply isn’t that keen on subtitled films.
