HH "ASTRO BOY" (PG) Children will enjoy this remake of the old cartoon, with action that keeps the story moving as a robot boy tries to impress his scientist father and save the world. But don't look for much more than that. Rated PG for some action and peril, and brief mild language. [RF, M]
HH "CIRQUE DU FREAK: THE VAMPIRE'S ASSISTANT" (PG-13) This is a sweet sort of vampire story aimed at the younger set, with much of the real menace taken out of this tale of a "good" vampire who makes a young boy a half-vampire--and his apprentice. Blood and violence is minimized, but there's enough to keep this off limits from those under 13. Rated PG-13 for sequences of intense supernatural violence and action, disturbing images, thematic elements and some language. [RF]
HH "COUPLES RETREAT" (PG-13) Thank goodness for Vince Vaughn and the gorgeous island paradise where the film is shot. Those two things just barely nudge this movie, about couples forced into spouse therapy at a resort, into the worth-seeing category in a film that should be funnier. Rated PG-13 on appeal for sexual content and language. [RF, RA, M]
HH "LAW ABIDING CITIZEN" (R) A thriller about a man failed by the legal system becomes just another film about a crazed guy blowing stuff up. Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx are wasted in roles that move them from a brutal murder to a father's high-tech revenge. Rated R for strong bloody, brutal violence and torture, a scene of rape and pervasive language. [RF, RA, M]
HHH "PARANORMAL ACTIVITY" (R) Director and screenwriter Oren Peli understands, and uses in the simplest but most effective way, that there's nothing more terrifying and spooky than the thing we can't see. That's what makes it increasingly more terrifying when a young couple convinced they're being visited by a demon sets up a video camera in their room and we see evidence they're not wrong. Rated R for language. [RF, RA, M]
"SAW VI" (R) (Not Reviewed) Many of the original figures in Jigsaw's world are gone, but people are still killed in sick, warped ways. Will Jigsaw's master plan finally be understood? With Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Mark Rolston, Betsy Russell. Rated R for sequences of grisly, bloody violence and torture, and language. [RF, M]
HH "THE STEPFATHER" (PG-13) A talented cast does what it can with this story of the evil stepfather who has pulled the wool over Mom's eyes. But you always know what's coming next, even as Dylan Walsh does a nice job slowly peeling away the stepfather's cheery fake persona. Rated PG-13 for intense violence, disturbing images, mature thematic material, brief sensuality. [RF]
HH "WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE" (PG) This film of the much-loved children's book starts well, translating a creative child's anger and despair into an imagined world where he can howl with the wild things. But things bog down when he makes it to this world. Rated PG for mild thematic elements, adventure action, brief language. [RF, RA, M]
| RF: Regal Cinema Fredericksburg 15, 540/786-4900
RA: Regal Cinema Aquia 10, 540/659-3200
M: Marquee Cinemas, Schedules are subject to change. Call ahead to verify locations. |