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| MOVIE | WHAT IT’S ABOUT | DETAILS | TIMES AND LOCATIONS |
Opening Today: Alien Vs. Predator | A group of humans find itself caught between two dangerous, battling alien groups. | Running time: 1:27 Rating: PG-13 (violence, language, horror images, slime, gore) | NorthTown Mall: 11:50 a.m., 12:35, 2:20, 3, 4:45, 5:25, 7:15, 7:50, 9:40, 10:20. River Park Square: 1:30, 2:10, 3:20, 4:30, 5:15, 6:50, 7:30, 8, 9:30, 10:05, 10:30. Spokane Valley Mall: 2, 4:50, 7:30, 10:05. Post Falls: 2:45, 5, 7, 9. Showboat: 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 9:45. |
Opening Wednesday: Without a Paddle | Three city friends (Seth Green, Matthew Lillard, Dax Shepard) go on a canoe trip to find D.B. Cooper’s treasure but end up enduring a series of comic misadventures instead. | Running time: 1:35 Rating: PG-13 (drug content, sexual material, language, crude humor, violence) | Opening Wednesday. |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! | An evil spirit awakens and our hero, Yugi, is the only one who can save the day. After all, he did it once before. | Running time: 1:30 Rating: PG (scary combat and monster images) | NorthTown Mall: 12:20, 2:35, 4:50, 7:20. River Park Square: 12:30, 3, 5:20, 7:40. Spokane Valley Mall: 2:15, 4:55, 7:20. Post Falls: 2, 4:20, 6:15. Showboat: 2, 4:40, 7. |
Continuing: Adrenaline Rush: The Science of Risk | Writer-director Marc Fafard uses the IMAX camera to explore how sports such as base-jumping affect the human physiology. | Running time: :40 Rating: Not Rated (thrilling action scenes) | Imax (Riverfront Park): 11:35 a.m. |
Anchorman ••1/2 | It’s the 1970s and San Diego’s favorite newsman, Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell), is king of the airwaves. When Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate) enters the domain, it’s a whole new world. Working like an extended “Saturday Night Live” skit, “Anchorman” is the occasional guffaw languishing between long sequences of yawn-inducing silliness. | Running time: 1:30 Rating: PG-13 (sexual humor, language, comic violence) | Newport: 2, 4:10, 6:35, 8:55. River Park Square: 1:05, 3:35, 6:35, 9. Spokane Valley Mall: 6:45, 9:30. Coeur d’Alene Discount: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9:10. |
Bourne Supremacy •••1/2 | Framed for a botched operation, trained assassin Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) is forced to reassume his killing ways to protect himself and the woman he loves (Franka Potente). Damon may not be the most obvious choice to play a superspy, but in the hands of Paul Greengrass, he and the chase scenes he performs feel more real than any James Bond moment. | Running time: 1:48 Rating: PG-13 (violence and intense action, brief language) | NorthTown Mall: noon, 2:30, 5, 7:35, 9:45, 10:15. River Park Square: 1:20, 2, 4:05, 4:40, 7, 7:40, 9:45, 10:15. Spokane Valley Mall: 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50. Coeur d’Alene: 2, 4:40, 7:20, 9:45. Post Falls: 2:20, 4:35, 6:50, 9:10. |
Catwoman ••1/2 | Murdered after stumbling onto a corporate secret, Patience Philips (Halle Berry) becomes Catwoman, a creature with superpowers who walks the delicate line between good and evil. There’s not much here that’s fresh, but Berry sure looks good, both as Patience and as her kittenish alter ego. | Running time: 1:44 Rating: PG-13 (action violence, some sensuality) | Newport: 1:30, 3:50, 6:20, 8:35. River Park Square: 9:55. |
Cheaper By The Dozen • | This remake of the 1950 film of the same name updates everything but the sexual politics, which are left lurking in the post-war decade. Steve Martin plays dad, a football coach who uproots his football-team-sized family to take the position at his alma mater. Uh oh. This interferes with the lives of his children and wife (Bonnie Hunt). | Running time: 1:38 Rating: PG (some language, some thematic elements) | Free showing Monday-Thursday at 9:30 a.m. at Garland. |
Chronicles of Riddick •• | This Vin Diesel vehicle borrows from Shakespeare (“Macbeth”) among others to tell the continuing story of Riddick, the furious Furion with a heart behind those luminous see-in-the-dark eyes. The antihero from “Pitch Black” this time battles the forces of darkness called Necromongers. | Running time: 1:55 Rating: PG-13 (intense sequences of violent action, some language) | Garland: 2:30. |
A Cinderella Story •• | This updated version of the “Cinderella” story features Hilary Duff as an overworked, underloved teenager who defies her stepmother (Jennifer Coolidge) to attend the big Halloween dance where she meets her prep prince (Chad Michael Murray). The movie’s a pumpkin, but it’s not Duff’s fault. | Running time: 1:36 Rating: PG (mild language, innuendo) | Newport: 1:40, 3:55, 6:30, 8:40. River Park Square: 1, 4:55, 7:35. Spokane Valley Mall: 9:45. |
Collateral •••1/2 | Showing that his trademark smile can disguise the soul of an assassin, Tom Cruise strolls through “Collateral” like the genuine star that he has become. The surprise? Jamie Foxx is nearly his match as the frightened cab driver who must find a courage that he’s never had. | Running time: 1:40 Rating: R (violence, language) | NorthTown Mall: 12:10, 3:10, 7:25, 9:35, 10:05. River Park Square: 12:40, 1:10, 3:30, 4:15, 6:30, 7:15, 9:30, 10:05. Spokane Valley Mall: 1:45, 4:35, 7:25, 10:15. Post Falls: 2:05, 4:30, 6:50, 9:10. Showboat: 1:25, 4:10, 6:55, 9:35. |
Day After Tomorrow ••1/2 | A government scientist (Dennis Quaid) battles disbelieving politicians (Kenneth Welsh et al.) while trying to convince the world that a new ice age is coming. Questionable science, a time collapse from several thousand years to, uh, this afternoon and barely adequate acting from the standard troupe of characters are not nearly as bad as the fact that this Roland Emmerich (“Independence Day”) film has no ending. | Running time: 2:04 Rating: PG-13 (intense situations of peril) | Garland: 7. |
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story •••1/2 | When their gym is threatened by a sleek corporate group managed by an airhead muscle-boy (Ben Stiller), a group of losers (headed by Vince Vaughn) enters a dodgeball tournament in the hopes of winning the cash prize. Cleverly written, quickly paced, always irreverent, “Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story” may become as much of a cult favorite as, say, “Animal House.” | Running time: 1:32 Rating: PG-13 (rude and sexual humor, language) | Coeur d’Alene Discount: 1:10, 3:30, 5:30, 7:25, 9:20. |
Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat • | A tasteless and relentlessly unfunny adaptation of the Dr. Seuss tale about two children learning a lesson about life from a mischievous, hat-wearing cat. It’s hard to figure out what’s worse, the script that depends on adult references or Mike Myers’ mugging. Either way, the result is less than holiday-like and should be rated PG (for Pretty Gross). | Running time: 1:22 Rating: PG (mild crude humor, some double-entendres) | Free showing today at 9:30 a.m. at Garland. |
Fahrenheit 9/11 ••• | Michael Moore (“Bowling for Columbine”) takes on the Bush administration’s war on Iraq. Moore’s so-called truth is similar to what Oliver Stone put forth in “JFK.” Yet his shotgun approach to accusation does, at times, hit dead on. At the very least he’s forcing public debate instead of joining the lock-step march toward war. | Running time: 2:00 Rating: R (violent, disturbing images) | Newport: 6:15, 8:50. |
Garfield • | This film offers a plot that Adam Sandler would find simple: Garfield (voice by Bill Murray) gets used to the new dog Odie, his master Jon (Breckin Meyer) gets romantic with a pretty veterinarian (Jennifer Love Hewitt). The complication comes when a TV personality kidnaps Odie. Despite Murray, this film offers not one funny moment. | Running time: 1:27 Rating: PG (brief mild language) | Garland: 12:30. |
Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle ••1/2 | Korean-American accountant Harold (John Cho) and his roommate, Indian-American medical-school hopeful Kumar (Kal Penn), embark on a sojourn through northern New Jersey to quench their attack of munchies with White Castle hamburgers. | Running time: 1:27 Rating: R (language, sexual content, drug use, crude humor) | River Park Square: 10. |
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban • 1/2 | The transition from Chris Columbus to Alfonso Cuaron has propelled J.K. Rowling’s child hero into the difficult teen years. Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) is 13 and back for his third year at Hogwarts. Like any kid approaching maturity, he acts with impatience, impetuousness and the occasional temper tantrum. He’s after the man who he thinks killed his parents. | Running time: 2:16 Rating: PG (frightening moments, creature violence, mild language) | Imax (Riverfront Park): 2:40, 7:20. Newport: 1:50, 4:45, 7:40. |
The Human Body • | “The Human Body” will keep you so busy ogling at the screen that you won’t even realize you’re learning. In following a family of four, this product of an award-winning BBC Television and The Learning Channel series (“Intimate Universe: The Human Body”) shows body parts and functions, including a birth. | Running time: :43 Rated: Not Rated | Imax (Riverfront Park): 10:30 a.m. |
I, Robot ••1/2 | When the designer (James Cromwell) of a new line of robots is murdered, a homicide detective (Will Smith) suspects that a businessman (Bruce Greenwood) is manufacturing dangerously defective machines. Guess what he finds? Big bangs and lots of formulaic booms. | Running time: 1:54 Rating: PG-13 (intense stylized action, partial nudity) | NorthTown Mall: 12:25, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30. River Park Square: 2:15, 5:10, 7:45, 10:25. Spokane Valley Mall: 2:35, 6:30, 9:25. Showboat: 9:15. |
King Arthur •• | “Training Day” director Antoine Fuqua updates the legend of the English king (Clive Owen), his queen Guinevere (Keira Knightley), the knight Lancelot (Ioan Gruffudd) and their attempts to establish … what, a modern state of free people? In the 5th century? Please. Not even Owen’s blue eyes can save this big-budget turkey. | Running time: 2:05 Rating: PG-13 (language, intense battle sequences, scene of sexuality) | Coeur d’Alene Discount: 1:35, 4:05, 6:35, 9. |
| Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West | This movie condenses the three-year Lewis and Clark expedition into 42 minutes, but what the film does, it does beautifully. Director Bruce Neibaur does an exceptional job of capturing the glory and scope of the West, making us feel as if we are part of the expedition. – Jim Kershner, The Spokesman-Review. | Running time: :42 Rating: Not Rated (general audiences) | Imax (Riverfront Park): 12:40, 6:25. |
| Little Black Book | Concerned that her boyfriend (Ron Livingston) is keeping secrets from her, an associate producer for a television talk show (Brittany Murphy) checks out his PDA and then decides to meet the many women whose addresses she finds there. | Running time: 1:45 Rating: PG-13 (sexual content/ humor, language) | NorthTown Mall: 12:05, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:10. River Park Square: 1:45, 4:35, 7:10, 9:50. Spokane Valley Mall: 2:10, 5, 7:35, 10:10. Coeur d’Alene Cinemas: 2:10, 4:50, 7:25, 9:50. |
Manchurian Candidate ••• | Haunted by persistent dreams, a Persian Gulf War veteran (Denzel Washington) tries to convince others that he and his fellow former prisoners of war, including vice presidential candidate Raymond Shaw (Liev Schreiber), have been brainwashed. | Running time: 2:10 Rating: R (violence, some language) | NorthTown Mall: 12:40, 4, 7:05, 10. River Park Square: 1:25, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20. Spokane Valley Mall: 2:40, 6:35, 9:35. Showboat: 1:15, 4, 6:50, 9:40. |
Napoleon Dynamite •••1/2 | Morose and antisocial, Napoleon Dynamite (Jon Heder) is the supreme geek of his Preston, Idaho, high school. But he’s determined to survive, help his friend win a school election and make it to the big dance. Uncomfortably real and hilariously absurd, this movie will either make you laugh or wonder why anyone would make such a film. | Running time: 1:26 Rating: PG (thematic elements, language) | River Park Square: 1:50, 4:30, 7:05, 9:15. Spokane Valley Mall: 2:20, 4:40, 7, 9:20. Coeur d’Alene: 1:50, 4:25, 6:50, 9:25. |
| Nascar 2D: The Imax Experience | Big-time NASCAR racing comes to the BIG screen. | Running time: :40 Rating: PG (crash scenes) | Imax (Riverfront Park): 1:40, 5:15. |
The Notebook •• | Based on the Nicholas Sparks novel, “The Notebook” tells the story of young lovers (Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams) separated by World War II and their backgrounds (she’s rich, he’s not). The story is told in flashbacks by a man (James Garner) reading from a notebook to a woman (Gena Rowlands) in a rest home. | Running time: 2:10 Rating: PG-13 (scenes of sexuality) | Newport: 1, 3:35, 6:10, 8:45. River Park Square: 12:45, 3:45, 6:50, 9:40. Coeur d’Alene Discount: 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:05. |
Office Space ••• | Life in the business world is a “Dilbert”-like experience. | Running time: 1:30 Rating: R (language, brief sexuality) | Garland: midnight |
| Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement | Princess Mia (Anne Hathaway), now sitting on the Genovian throne, discovers that she must marry within 30 days or be forced to renounce her crown. Shut up! | Running time: 1:45 Rating: G | NorthTown Mall: 11:55 a.m., 12:45, 2:40, 4:20, 5:30, 7:10, 8:15. River Park Square: 12:50, 1:30, 3:40, 4:10, 6:40, 7:20, 9:20, 9:55. Spokane Valley Mall: 2:25, 7:05, 9:55. Coeur d’Alene: 1:45, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40. Post Falls: 2:10, 4:25, 6:45, 9:05. |
Shrek 2 • 1/2 | Shrek (voice by Mike Myers) comes home to meet the in-laws. But the parents of his wife, Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz), are horrified at his being an ogre. Soon, Shrek is threatened not only by Prince Charming (Rupert Everett) and the Fairy Godmother (Jennifer Saunders) but by the feline hitman Puss In Boots (Antonio Banderas). | Running time: 1:45 Rating: PG (rude humor, substance reference, suggestive content) | Newport: 1:20, 3:30, 6:25, 8:30. Spokane Valley Mall: 1:55, 4:20. Coeur d’Alene Discount: 1:20, 3:15, 5:15, 7:15, 9:15. |
Spider-Man 2 •••1/2 | Still torn between his personal life and his self-imposed obligations as a superhero crimefighter, Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) faces his most powerful foe yet in the octopuslike Doc Ock (Alfred Molina). Following a clever credits sequence, which tells the first movie in mere images, this well-made sequel plays out as a character study. | Running time: 2:02 Rating: PG-13 (stylized action violence) | NorthTown Mall: 12:15, 3:05, 6:35, 9:25. River Park Square: 1:35, 4:25, 7:25, 10:10. Spokane Valley Mall: 2:50, 6:40, 9:40. Coeur d’Alene: 1:40, 4:20, 7, 9:35. Post Falls: 8:30. |
The Stepford Wives •• | After burning out as a network television executive, Joanna Eberhart (Nicole Kidman) retires to calm Stepford, Conn., with her husband (Matthew Broderick) and their two children. But all the town’s women dress and act like Barbie dolls, and pretty soon Joanna becomes the next target. The film is full of laughs, but mostly the cheap kind. | Running time: 1:33 Rating: PG-13 (content, thematic material, language) | Garland: 5. |
The Terminal ••1/2 | Because of war in his tiny Eastern Europe country, a man (Tom Hanks) gets stranded in a New York City terminal. With no national affiliation, he can’t leave. So he settles in and gets by with the help of an airport employee (Diego Luna) while falling for a friendly flight attendant (Catherine Zeta-Jones). | Running time: 2:08 Rating: PG-13 (brief language, drug reference) | Newport: 2:10, 4:55, 7:50. Coeur d’Alene Discount: 1:30, 3:55, 6:25, 8:55. |
| Thunderbirds | When Jeff Tracy (Bill Paxton) and his elder sons, who make up the rescue team called The Thunderbirds, are threatened by a supervillain (Ben Kingsley), the youngest Tracy (Brady Corbett) and his friends must come to the rescue. | Running time: 1:34 Rating: PG (intense action sequences, language) | Newport: 1:10, 3:40. |
Van Helsing ••• | Besides Hugh Jackman, who plays the super vampire-hunter of the film’s title, director Stephen Sommers (both “The Mummy” movies) made sure that the action scenes of this summer flick were digitally exciting, that the vampires looked toothy enough and that things blew up really good. | Running time: 2:05 Rating: PG (nonstop creature action violence, frightening images, sensuality) | Garland: 9:30. |
The Village •••1/2 | A young man (Joaquin Phoenix) walks into the dark woods, breaking the long-held truce between his fellow villagers and the creatures that live among the trees. Suspenseful, eerie and boasting a star-making performance by Bryce Dallas Howard, “The Village” is everything we’ve come to expect from writer-director M. Night Shyamalan. | Running time: 1:47 Rating: PG-13 (a scene of violence, frightening situations) | NorthTown Mall: 12:30, 3:20, 7, 9:50. River Park Square: 12:35, 1:15, 3:15, 3:50, 6:45, 7:30, 9:35, 10:15. Spokane Valley Mall: 2:45, 6:55, 10. Post Falls: 2:30, 4:45, 7, 9:15. Showboat: 1:35, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50. |