Contemporary Films

Sundays at 2 pm & 7 pm

11/1  – Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) PG 

94 minutes – After Susan Murphy (voiced by Reese Witherspoon) is struck by a meteor and grows to be 50-feet tall, she's captured by the government and shuttled to a secret compound where she meets a team of other monsters -- soon to be Earth's only defense when aliens attack.

11/8  – Duplicity (2009) PG-13

130 minutes – Julia Roberts and Clive Owen co-star in this curveball-throwing thriller as a pair of romantically involved corporate operatives who are entangled in a bitter rivalry between two mammoth pharmaceutical companies. From writer/director Tony Gilroy who previously directed Michael Clayton.

11/15  – Lars and the Real Girl (2007) PG-13

106 minutes – Ryan Gosling plays the title character in this oddball comedy about a delusional young man who buys a life-size doll over the Internet -- and then falls in love with her. When the young man starts telling people that the doll is his girlfriend, his brother and sister-in-law decide it's time to intervene. Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times Only after the movie is over do you realize what a balancing act it was, what risks it took, what rewards it contains.

11/22  – Away We Go (2009) R 

98 minutes – Buoyed by the news that they are expecting their first baby, Burt (John Krasinski) and Verona (Maya Rudolph) embark on a journey to locate the perfect place on the planet to raise their child. But their quest inevitably yields many unexpected surprises. By Sam Mendes who directed “Revolutionary Road”.

11/29  – Imagine That (2009) PG 

107 minutes – Work problems are piling up for financial exec Evan (Eddie Murphy), and his ruthless rival (Thomas Haden Church), greedy boss (Ronny Cox) and touchy-feely best friend (DeRay Davis) aren't helping matters. But when Evan discovers a pathway to his daughter's imaginary world, he starts finding some solutions. Nicole Ari Parker co-stars as Evan's estranged wife in this inventive family comedy from Over the Hedge director Karey Kirkpatrick.