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Arrietty
94 minutes - Family
The Clock family are four-inch-tall people who live anonymously in another family's residence, borrowing simple items to make their home. Life changes for the Clocks when their daughter, Arrietty, is discovered.
Friday 10:30, 13:15, 15:30, 17:45
Saturday 10:30, 13:15, 15:30, 17:45
Sunday 10:30, 13:15, 15:30, 17:45
Monday 10:30, 13:15, 15:30, 17:45
Tuesday 10:30, 13:15, 15:30, 17:45
Wednesday 10:30, 13:15, 15:30, 17:45

Hugo 3D
127 minutes - Drama / Family
Martin Scorsese directs this family adventure set in 1930s Paris, based on the novel The Invention of Hugo Cabaret. Hugo (Asa Butterfield from The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas) is an orphan living in the walls of a Paris train station who gets entangled in a magical adventure when he encounters a broken robot made by his late father (Jude Law), a mischievious girl (Chloë Moretz from Let Me In) and a foul tempered train station inspector (Sacha Baron Cohen).
Friday 11:00, 15:15
Saturday 11:00, 15:15
Sunday 11:00, 15:15
Monday 11:00, 15:15
Tuesday 11:00, 15:15
Wednesday 11:00, 15:15, 20:30

J. Edgar
137 minutes - Drama
Clint Eastwood (Gran Torino, Million Dollar Baby, Unforgiven) directs Leonardo DiCaprio as J. Edgar Hoover, the face of law enforcement in America for almost 50 years. Hoover was was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director until his death in 1972. Behind closed doors, however he held secrets that would have destroyed his career. The screenplay is written by Dustin Lance Black (Milk).
Friday 12:30, 20:15
Saturday 12:30, 20:15
Sunday 12:30, 20:15
Monday 12:30, 20:15
Tuesday 12:30, 20:15
Wednesday 12:30, 20:15

Man On A Ledge
102 minutes - Drama
Thriller about an wrongly-accused criminal (Sam Worthington, Avatar) who stands on a high-rise ledge, communicating with a police negotiator (Elizabeth Banks,Catch Me If You Can). Nick (Worthington) was an honest cop who landed in prison for a crime he didn't commit. Desperate, he escapes and hours later stands on a New York City window ledge. Police cordon off the area and agree to Nick's request to speak with police negotiator Lydia (Banks). But Lydia doesn't know that she is part of his grand plan: the staged suicide is a diversion from a huge diamond heist happening somewhere else in the city. Also stars Ed Harris (The Truman Show) and Jamie Bell (King Kong).
Friday 13:00, 20:45
Saturday 13:00, 20:45
Sunday 13:00, 20:45
Monday 13:00, 20:45
Tuesday 13:00, 20:45
Wednesday 10:30, 20:45

Martha Marcy May Marlene
102 minutes - Drama
Psychodrama, winner of the Directing Award (Dramatic) for first time writer/director Sean Durkin at Sundance 2011, stars Elizabeth Olsen (sister of Mary-Kate and Ashley) as a fragile young woman who escapes a Manson-like cult before seeking refuge at the home of her estranged sister.
Friday 10:30, 18:45
Saturday 10:30, 18:45
Sunday 10:30, 18:45
Monday 10:30, 18:45
Tuesday 10:30, 18:45
Wednesday 13:00, 18:45

Shame
99 minutes - Drama
Brandon is a New Yorker who shuns intimacy with women but feeds his desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his wayward younger sister (Carey Mulligan) moves into his apartment stirring memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's insular life spirals out of control.
Friday 12:45, 15:00, 18:15, 21:15
Saturday 12:45, 15:00, 18:15, 21:15
Sunday 12:45, 15:00, 18:15, 21:15
Monday 12:45, 15:00, 18:15, 21:15
Tuesday 12:45, 15:00, 18:15, 21:15
Wednesday 12:45, 15:00, 18:15, 21:15

The Artist
100 minutes - Comedy / Drama
French romantic-comedy set in 1927 Hollywood. Strikingly, the film is silent (asides from a musical score) and shot in black and white. Winner of Best Actor, and nominated for the Palme d'Or, at Cannes 2011. From the director of the of OSS 117 movies. George Valentin (Dujardin) is a successful silent movie star when the arrival of sound and talking pictures threatens his career. At the same time, Peppy Miller (Bérénice Bejo), a young extra, thrives in talkies and becomes a major movie star.
Friday 10:45, 13:45, 18:00, 20:30
Saturday 10:45, 13:45, 18:00, 20:30
Sunday 10:45, 13:45, 18:00, 20:30
Monday 10:45, 13:45, 18:00, 20:30
Tuesday 10:45, 13:45, 18:00, 20:30
Wednesday 10:45, 13:45, 19:00, 21:00

The Descendants
115 minutes - Comedy / Drama
From director Alexander Payne (Sideways, Election), a comedy/drama set in Hawaii starring George Clooney as Matt King, an indifferent husband and father of two girls forced to man-up when his wife suffers a boating accident. This leads to a rapprochement with his daughters while having to copeg with the bombshell of finding out his wife was cheating on him and worsening schizophrenia.
Friday 11:15, 15:45, 21:00
Saturday 11:15, 15:45, 21:00
Sunday 11:15, 15:45, 21:00
Monday 11:15, 15:45, 21:00
Tuesday 11:15, 15:45, 21:00
Wednesday 11:15, 15:45, 18:00

The Iron Lady
105 minutes - Drama
British Prime Minister (from 1979 - 1990) Margaret Thatcher biopic with Meryl Streep playing the titular Iron Lady. Tells Thatcher's story via flashback, including the lead-up to Britain's controversial involvement in the Falklands War in 1982. Jim Broadbent plays her husband Dennis. The Iron Lady blog says the story is about a "woman who smashed through the barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male-dominated world. The story concerns power and the price that is paid for power, and is an intimate portrait of an extraordinary and complex woman."
Friday 13:00, 16:15, 18:15, 20:45
Saturday 13:00, 16:15, 18:15, 20:45
Sunday 13:00, 16:15, 18:15, 20:45
Monday 13:00, 16:15, 18:15, 20:45
Tuesday 13:00, 16:15, 18:15, 20:45
Wednesday 13:00, 16:15, 20:00

The Women On The 6th Floor
104 minutes - Comedy
A breezy upstairs/downstairs French comedy centering on an uptight couple living in a swanky Parisian apartment in 1962, blissfully unaware that upstairs the building's servants quarters is overflowing with illegal immigrants, all of whom are hot-blooded Spanish country girls... "It's 1962. An uptight middle-class couple - Fabrice Luchini and Sandrine Kiberlain - are barely aware that the servants' quarters on an upper floor of their Paris apartment building are overflowing with refugees from Franco's Spain: the sisters and aunts and mothers and cousins of the legal occupant (Carmen Maura). After they hire one of them, the beautiful, mysterious, quietly challenging Maria, to be their housemaid, they are gradually made aware of their own unintentional insensitivity and are drawn out of their tired routines."
Friday 11:00, 20:00
Saturday 11:00, 20:00
Sunday 11:00, 20:00
Monday 11:00, 20:00
Tuesday 11:00, 20:00
Wednesday 11:00, 20:45

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
127 minutes - Drama
Actor-tastic adapation of the 1974 British spy novel by John le Carre, directed by Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In) - his first English-language film. In the bleak days of the Cold War, middle-aged, taciturn, espionage veteran George Smiley (Gary Oldman) is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet agent within MI6's echelons, dubbed the "Circus" by those who work there. A previous adapation was made in 1979 as a seven-part series for BBC, featuring Alec Guiness as George Smiley.
Friday 13:30, 16:00, 18:30
Saturday 13:30, 16:00, 18:30
Sunday 13:30, 16:00, 18:30
Monday 13:30, 16:00, 18:30
Tuesday 13:30, 16:00, 18:30
Wednesday 13:30, 16:00, 18:30

Weekend

Friday 15:45
Saturday 15:45
Sunday 15:45
Monday 15:45
Tuesday 15:45
Wednesday 15:45, 18:45

Young Adult
90 minutes - Drama / Comedy
The director and writer of Juno (Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody, respectively) re-team for this comedy-drama about a woman returning home in order to relive her high school glory years. Mavis (Charlize Theron, Monster) is a cynical, successful writer of teenage fiction who returns to her small home town to win back her high school crush: Buddy (Patrick Wilson, Insidious), now happily married and with kids. Buddy isn't particularly willing though, and having been roundly despised at school, Mavis doesn't find support with her old chums and the plans go awry. But she manages to get assistance from one former classmate (Patton Oswalt, The Informant!) who hasn't quite gotten over his high school years either.
Friday 10:45, 19:00
Saturday 10:45, 19:00
Sunday 10:45, 19:00
Monday 10:45, 19:00
Tuesday 10:45, 19:00
Wednesday 10:45

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