Dollar movie
October 6
Animal Kingdom
Thursday, Oct. 6
7:30 10 12:30
Despite what its name suggests, Animal Kingdom is not a documentary about the Disney theme park of the same name — far from it. Rather, Animal Kingdom is an Australian film about Joshua “J” Cody (James Frecheville), a teenager who has to move in with his criminal relatives after his mother dies. As his grandmother (Jacki Weaver) and three uncles (Joel Edgerton, Luke Ford, and Ben Mendelsohn) engage in an all-out war with the Armed Robbery Squad, J finds himself caught in the middle and has to figure out how to get himself out.
October 7
X-Men: First Class
Friday, Oct. 7
7:30 10 12:30
The most recent film in the X-Men series, X-Men: First Class delves into the background of mutants Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) and Erik Lehnsherr (Michael Fassbender). Interestingly, the two had great control over their mutant abilities when they became friends, and they use their abilities to find and train new mutants. Xavier and Lehnsherr also ally themselves with the U.S. government to try to prevent the war that villain (and mutant) Sebastian Shaw (Kevin Bacon) is trying to start.
October 8
X-Men
Saturday, Oct. 8
7:30 10 12:30
The existence of mutants with special abilities has come into the public eye, and the government is dicussing how to approach the new population. Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart), a mutant with telepathic abilities, tries to encourage peaceful coexistence while his old friend Erik Lehnsherr (Ian McKellen), now known as the villain Magneto, tries to even the playing field between mutants and humans. Magneto’s plan to come out ahead in this upcoming war involves the clawed and aggressive Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) and the young, energy-absorbing Rogue (Anna Paquin).
October 9
Source Code
Sunday, Oct. 9
8 10 12
Jake Gyllenhaal stars in this action thriller as Colter Stevens, a soldier who, after being shot down by enemy fire in Afghanistan, wakes up on a commuter train in Chicago in another man’s body. When the train is bombed, he finds out that he is part of a government experiment where he can occupy the last eight minutes of another man’s life in order to discover who bombed the train. The movie also stars Michelle Monaghan as Gyllenhaal’s love interest.