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DIGITAL PROJECTION AT THIS THEATRE REGAL CINEMAS LINCOLNSHIRE 20 Lincolnshire MOBILE USERS: Free Showtimes Text DEJAVUWith Your ZIP CODE To 43KIX (43549)! 1 2 The following is a recap of Tribune movie critic Michael review of which ran in Tempo section. For the full review, visit metromix.com. Darren is an incredibly ambitious film of sometimes thrilling visual achievement, but it connect fully to my mind and nerves. is three-part tale of the search for the Tree of Life for victory over death, especially the death of those we love. At the center, present in body or memory in all three tales, are Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz as a pair of lovers variously named Tomas, Tom, Isabel or Izzi caught up in the quest.

The three episodes, woven together throughout, take place at 500- year intervals: in the 16th Century, in the present day and in the 26th Century. The focus switches rapidly from era to era and from movie genre to movie genre with a hallucinatory flow reminiscent of drug movie for a Depending on your receptivity, it will keep you enthralled or uneasy throughout. a visual knockout, drenched in fantastic imagery that inevitably recalls an Aronofsky idol, Stanley Kubrick. But a coldness to vision here that works against the emotion he wants. Even the rapturous shots of which we can sense some real-life passion between director and the actress to which engaged and with whom he has a some of the charge they should have.

MPAA rating: PG-13 (for some intense sequences of violent action, some sensuality and language.) mythology of love and life feels strangely cold Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz play lovers in various times across a millennium in REVIEW in the Pick of The following is a recap of Tribune movie critic Michael review of in the Pick of which ran in Tempo section. For the full review, visit metro mix.com. Even with Jack eyebrows and a musical showdown with the devil, in The Pick of is kind of a whiff. Directed by Liam Lynch from a script by Black, Lynch and fellow Tenacious band member Kyle Gass, Pick of relays a tall- tale version of how two musicians met and became the most dangerous band. Gass may be the least likely fellow ever to costar in a rock movie.

He looks more like a roadie who lost his tour bus, or a bouncer gone to seed. The enduring appeal of his acting ability, which is narrow but in its range delightful and ferociously that the minute he starts to sing, or to move, he transforms into a rock star. While Black will only get better as an actor once he realizes that is sometimes just too much, even in a toss-off like Pick of he has real camera presence. The film pulls a variation on the old Robert Johnson-sold-his- soul myth. JB (Black) and KG (Gass) discover that all the great rock guitarists used the same unholy own.

now in the clutches of a rock roll museum in upstate California. In order to fulfill their showbiz destiny and score with women much younger than they are, the boy-men set off in pursuit. While some of the offhanded gags work, director Lynch is no whiz when it comes to energizing a scene, or feeding one swiftly into another. A large amount of dope is smoked in Pick of perhaps the most since the salad days of Cheech Chong. This may be the problem.

Pot rarely helped any- comic timing. MPAA rating: (for pervasive language, sexual content and drug use). So-so story of a superband Kyle Gass (top) and Jack Black are members of most dangerous REVIEW The following is a recap of Tribune movie critic Michael review of which ran in Tempo section. For the full review, visit metromix.com. is a sometimes elegiac, sometimes joyous movie about an immigrant couple in the Midwestern farm belt in the 1920s and what happens to them during a time of national conservatism and clannishness.

Based on Will short story Gravestone Made of the film follows the fortunes of a young German woman, Inge (Elizabeth Reaser) who travels to America to marry a Norwegian immigrant farmer, Olaf (Tim Guinee), then suffers from the post-World War I prejudice against all things German. All this is recalled decades later after death in flashbacks to 1968 at the time of death, and (the main part of the story) back in the Writer-director Ali Selim em- pathizes so completely with the characters and milieu here that lyrical, fixated on the falls into contrived or phony-looking nostalgia. Reaser as the feisty Inge and Guinee as the steadfast Olaf are a beautiful young couple, John Heard is fine as the sometimes helpful, sometimes antagonistic pastor, and Ned Beatty is perfect as Harmo, the wily, heartless banker. The most memorable performance is by Alan Cumming as hapless Frandsen, sympathetic neighbor. His childlike smile suggests Charlie Chaplin or Stan Laurel lost in the landscapes of Willa or Terrence of Around him, becomes a fervent movie poem to love, family, land, lost times and old beginnings.

MPAA rating: PG (for brief partial nudity and mild language). Inge (Elizabeth Reaser) finds post-WW I U.S. unwelcoming to Germans, but has a friendly neighbor Frandsen (Alan Cumming). grows a cinematic poem of love, family, time REVIEW.