Full gamut of genre movies coming
Michael Moore pulls out his bullhorn to go after the perpetrators of our economic woes in his latest movie Capitalism: A Love Story.
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Updated: October 02, 2009 1:01 PM
If you have ever kept yourself awake at night because you liked the Toy Story movies so much that you wished that they were in 3-D, you might want to seek therapy. You will also want to get to the Grand 10 starting tonight.
In preparation for the release of Toy Story 3 next summer, Disney has re-released the first two as a 3-D double feature that will run for two weeks only. You get both movies for the price of one 3-D movie, plus you get a bathroom break between the two and a sneak peek at Toy Story 3.
If you have ever wanted to pick up a megaphone and go after the ones that have put the world in economic turmoil, Michael Moore has done it for you. The documentarian who went after the head of General Motors in Roger and Me, the NRA in Bowling for Columbine, the U.S. government in Fahrenheit 9/11 and HMOs in Sicko, now goes after Wall Street to find out where all the bailout money went and how taxpayers can get it back.
Capitalism: A Love Story examines the toll that the current economic crisis has taken on ordinary citizens and goes to Washington and elsewhere to find out why this turmoil has happened.
Capitalism: A Love Story is showing at the Paramount Theatre and will play there as long as it keeps making money (he writes with proverbial tongue planted firmly in cheek).
If you have ever wanted go on a zombie killing spree, you can either play one of innumerable video games that allow you to decapitate the undead with guns and chainsaws, or you can live vicariously through Woody Harrelson in Zombieland.
Harrelson plays Tallahassee, an AK-totin’, zombie-slayin’ bada** who is one of a very few who have not become undead and whose single determination is to get the last Twinkie on Earth.
Strangely enough, the other survivors are named after cities as well: Jesse Eisenberg plays Columbus, Emma Stone plays Wichita and Abigail Breslin plays Little Rock. (I would guess that the only moral to this movie will be that if you want to survive the apocalypse, make sure your parents had the foresight to name you after a major American city—most state capitals will work, except maybe Salt Lake City.)
This movie sounds like fun and I recommend getting warmed up with movies like Evil Dead 2, Dead and Breakfast and Shaun of the Dead. Maybe I need therapy.
And finally, if you have every wanted to live all alone on the moon for three years, you will want to check out Moon. Sam Rockwell stars as an astronaut at the end of a three-year contract mining Earth’s primary source of energy. However, in the weeks prior to returning home to his family, things start going horribly wrong.
It is the stunning directorial debut of Duncan Jones, the son of the Space Oddity himself, David Bowie.
Moon shows as part of the Capitol Theatre’s West Kelowna Film Festival on Thursday, Oct. 8 at 7 p.m.
The West Kelowna Film Festival continues at the Capitol Theatre, Thursdays at 7 p.m. through October. Visit www.westkelownamovies.com.
Rick Davis is the manager of the Capitol Theatre in West Kelowna.
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