Beginners

"Beginners": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Betsy Sharkey:

A man's father announces that he has cancer and a gay lover in Mike Mills' amusing and loving film. "Beginners," starring Ewan McGregor and Christopher Plummer, is a buoyant and disarming drama about sons and fathers, death and dying, living and loving and all the ways we find ourselves starting over, hoping to finally get it right.
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Beginners
Oliver meets the irreverent and unpredictable Anna (Mélanie Laurent) only months after his father Hal (Christopher Plummer) has passed away. This new love floods Oliver with memories of his father who – following 44 years of marriage – came out of the closet at age 75 to live a full, energized, and wonderfully tumultuous gay life. The upheavals of Hal’s new honesty, by turns funny and moving, brought father and son closer than they’d ever been able to be. Now Oliver endeavors to love Anna with all the bravery, humor, and hope that his father taught him.

Opened June 3, 2011 | Runtime:1 hr. 45 min.
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, Mélanie Laurent, Goran Visnjic
Director: Mike Mills
Genres: Comedy Drama, Psychological Drama, Slice of Life

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Kung Fu Panda II

"Kung Fu Panda II": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Betsy Sharkey:

The story, written by Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger, is pretty standard childhood fare... It's the 3-D animation, under the spell of director Jennifer Yuh Nelson, that's such a surprise. Not that a woman is flying solo on a major animated project...rather that this is the first movie in a long time that you won't mind paying for the glasses because what's on the screen is multidimensional magic.

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Kung Fu Panda 2
Now known as the Dragon Warrior, Po (Jack Black) protects the Valley of Peace alongside his friends and fellow kung fu masters, the Furious Five. However, a dangerous villain threatens Po's awesome new life with plans to use a secret weapon to wipe out the martial art and conquer China. In order to defeat the new enemy, Po finds he must recall his past and unlock secrets of his mysterious origins; only then will he find the strength to vanquish his foe.

Opened May 26, 2011 | Runtime:1 hr. 35 min.
Cast: Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman, Gary Oldman, Jackie Chan
Director: Jennifer Yuh Nelson
Genres: Martial Arts, Children's/Family, Family-Oriented Comedy

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Midnight in Paris

"Midnight in Paris": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Kenneth Turan:

Woody Allen's film is his warmest, mellowest and funniest venture in years.
Here's a sentence I never thought I'd write again: Woody Allen has made a wonderful new picture, "Midnight in Paris," and it's his best, most enjoyable work in years.

If you're surprised to be reading that, think how I feel writing it. I've been a tough sell on the past dozen or so Allen films, very much including the well-acted but finally wearying "Vicky Cristina Barcelona." It seemed that everything he touched in recent years was tainted by misanthropy and sourness. Until now.

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Midnight in Paris
A young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better.

Opened May 20, 2011 | Runtime:1 hr. 34 min.
Cast: Owen Wilson, Marion Cotillard, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, Carla Bruni, Adrien Brody
Director: Woody Allen
Genres: Romantic ComedyComedy

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