Mccarthy, Bullock Make a Perfect(Ly Funny) Team Melissa Mccarthy Deserves the Space King Partnered Up
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--------------------------------Movie Times • Thursday-Wednesday, July 4-10 ------------------------------- Sun.: 2:00 mated hit of 2010 ($540 million). 10:00, 10:15 (3D), 11:00 FAST AND FURIOUS 6 (PG13) — OPENING THIS WEEK Mon.: 4:30, 8:30 Russell Brand and Ken Jeong Mon.-Wed.: 11:15 (2D, 3D), Director Justin Lin and actors Vin Tues.: 6:30 co-star. 12:00, 12:45, 1:45, 2:00 (3D), Diesel, Paul Walker and Dwayne At Any Price (R) Wed.: 3:00, 8:30 • AUBURN -GARRETT DRIVE -IN, GARRETT 2:45, 3:30, 4:30, 4:45 (3D), 5:30, (“The Rock”) Johnson all return Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain (R) Daily: 9:30 (precedes Monsters 6:15, 7:15, 7:30 (3D), 8:15, 9:00, and yadda-yadda-yadda. THE BLING RING (R) — From writer/ University) 10:00, 10:15 (3D) • CARMIKE 20, FORT WAYNE 42 (PG13) — The true story of Jackie director Sofia Coppola (Lost in • CARMIKE 20, FORT WAYNE • NORTH POINTE 9, WARSA W Daily: 4:00, 9:50 Robinson (Chadwick Boseman), Translation, The Virgin Suicides), Daily: 12:35 (3D), 1:15, 1:45, Thurs.: 3:15, 3:30 (3D), 5:45, • JE ff ERSON POINTE 18, FORT WAYNE the man who broke baseball’s a group of fame-obsessed teens 2:15, 3:00 (3D), 4:00, 4:30, 5:00, 6:15, 7:45, 9:00 (3D), 9:45 Ends Thursday, July 4 color barrier when Branch Rickey use the internet to track celebri- 5:20 (3D), 6:30, 7:00, 7:30, 7:40 Fri.-Sun.: 2:30, 3:30 (3D), 5:00, Thurs.: 11:40, 5:05, 10:45 (Harrison Ford) signed him to ties’ whereabouts in order to rob (3D), 9:00, 9:30, 9:55, 10:00 (3D) 6:15, 7:15, 9:00 (3D), 9:15 play second base for the Brooklyn their homes. Stars Emma Watson. • COLD W ATER CROSSING 14, FORT Mon.-Wed.: 3:15, 3:30 (3D), 5:45, FRANCES HA (R) — Greta Gerwig, Dodgers. Written and directed by • COLD W ATER CROSSING 14, FORT WAYNE 6:15, 7:45, 9:00 (3D), 9:45 Mickey Sumner and Grace Brian Helgeland (Mystic River, WAYNE Daily: 10:30, 11:00 (3D), 11:30, • NORTH W OOD CINEMA GRILL , FORT Gummer star in this NYC-based Man on Fire). Daily: 3:55, 9:35 12:50, 1:20 (3D), 1:50, 3:10, 3:40 WAYNE chick flick about a dancer and • COVENTRY 13, FORT WAYNE (3D), 4:10, 6:00, 6:30 (3D), 7:00, Thurs.: 1:15, 4:00, 7:15 her best friend. Directed by Noah Daily: 12:25, 3:10, 6:25, 9:10 THE CALL (R) — A 911 operator must 8:40, 9:10 (3D) Fri.: 1:00, 3:30, 6:15, 8:30 Baumbach (The Squid and the confront a killer from her past in • EAGLES THEATRE , WABASH Sat.: 1:00, 3:30, 6:00, 8:15 Whale, Greenberg). AFTER EARTH (PG13) — Will Smith order to save another’s life. Stars Thursday-Sunday, July 4-7 only Sun.: 1:00, 3:30, 6:00 • CINEMA CENTER , FORT WAYNE (along with son Jaden) team up Halle Berry and Abigail Breslin. Thurs.: 2:00 Wed.: 1:15, 4:00, 7:15 Starts Friday, July 5 with M. Night Shyamalan for this • COVENTRY 13, FORT WAYNE Fri.: 7:00 • STRAND THEATRE , KENDALLVILLE Fri.: 8:30 sci-fi adventure flick about a father Ends Thursday, July 4 Sat.-Sun.: 2:00, 7:00 Thurs.: 7:15 Sat.: 2:00, 6:30 and son who are stranded on Thurs.: 12:05, 2:15, 4:25, 7:00, • HUNTINGTON 7, HUNTINGTON Fri.: 7:15, 9:00 Sun.: 4:00 earth 1,000 years after everybody 9:55 Thurs.: 11:35, 12:10, 1:55, 2:30, Sat.: 2:00, 7:15, 9:00 Mon.: 6:30 else was forced to leave. 4:20, 4:50, 6:45, 7:15, 9:05, 9:40 Sun.: 2:00, 7:15 Tues.: 4:30, 8:30 • COVENTRY 13, FORT WAYNE THE CROODS (PG) — The world’s (3D) Mon.-Wed.: 7:15 Wed.: 6:30 Daily: 12:10, 2:35, 5:00, 7:25, very first prehistoric family goes Fri.-Sat.: 11:35, 12:10, 1:55, 2:30, 9:50 on a road trip to an uncharted and 4:20, 4:50, 6:45, 7:15, 9:05, 9:40 EPIC (PG) — A 3D animated action- THE HANGOVER PART III (R) — fantastical world in this animated (3D), 11:35 adventure from director Chris Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, AT ANY PRICE (R) — Dennis Quaid, tale starring Nicolas Cage, Emma Sun.-Wed.: 11:35, 12:10, 1:55, Wedge (Ice Age, Robots) about Ken Jeong, Mike Epps, Zach Zac Efron and Heather Graham Stone and Ryan Reynolds. 2:30, 4:20, 4:50, 6:45, 7:15, 9:05, the conflict between the forces of Galifianakis and Heather Graham star in this drama about a farming • COVENTRY 13, FORT WAYNE 9:40 (3D) good and evil. Beyoncé Knowles, are back in Vegas one last time family in crisis. Directed by Ramin Daily: 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:05, • JE ff ERSON POINTE 18, FORT WAYNE Colin Farrell, Josh Hutcherson and in this third and last film in Todd Bahrani (Chop Shop). 9:30 Starts Friday, July 5 Amanda Seyfried star. Phillips’ comedy franchise. • CINEMA CENTER , FORT WAYNE Fri.-Sun.: 11:00, 11:15 (3D), • COVENTRY 13, FORT WAYNE • COVENTRY 13, FORT WAYNE Starts Friday, July 5 DESPICABLE ME 2 (PG) — Steve 12:00, 12:45, 1:45, 2:00 (3D), Daily: 12:00, 12:55, 2:15, 3:15, Daily: 12:20, 2:40, 4:55, 7:10, Fri.: 2:00, 6:30 Carell returns as the sentimental 2:45, 3:30, 4:30, 4:45 (3D), 5:30, 4:30, 6:15, 7:15, 8:50, 9:40 9:45 Sat.: 4:00, 8:30 villain Gru in this sequel to the ani- 6:15, 7:15, 7:30 (3D), 8:15, 9:00, --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- McCarthy, Bullock Make a Perfect(ly Funny) Team Melissa McCarthy deserves the space King partnered up. their families being here since the dawn of she needs to be whatever she wants to be. But Bullock walks out of her straight- white folks taking over the continent) are a In The Heat she bumps into Sandra Bullock laced loner FBI agent persona from the Con- Flix nasty, bitter lot. They are perfectly captured over and over again, literally and figurative- geniality movies into her role as Sarah Ash- here by Mullins’ family. When those losers ly, and the collisions are funny, sometimes burn. She’s an FBI agent with the odd talent CATHERINE LEE bombed the Boston marathon, I shuddered extremely funny. Bullock deserves some of being able to find whatever guns and drugs at how relentlessly Boston would track them kind of prize for recognizing just how funny the bad guys are hiding. Unfortunately, she’s a big bounce. McCarthy is light on her feet down and retaliate. I think of the citizens of McCarthy is and pretty darn graciously play- also very by the book and arrogant. She is and fluid in her physical humor. Not since former Soviet states as tough characters, but ing the straight man. If some bit of ourselves disliked by her many male colleagues. She’s Chris Farley or The Great One, Jackie Glea- I’m sure the hahd core Boston population gets to hang around and watch what happens so alone, even her cat isn’t really hers. Her son, has a comedian used a big body with so could conquer Chechnya in a matter of days. in the human comedy called life after we boss, Hale, played by Demian Bichir, can’t much style. McCarthy is hopefully destined The Mullins family could lead the charge. shed our flesh, Christopher Hitchens is look- quite imagine promoting her because of how for a Gleason-length career, not a Farley- The supporting cast in The Heat is excel- ing on and having to admit that women can disliked she is. So, to get rid of her, calling it length career. lent, and it includes Jane Curtin as the Mul- be funny and John Belushi is slapping him a test of her abilities to play well with others, As they chase criminals, this chick odd lins matriarch. Michael Rapaport is great as on the back saying, “That’s my girl!” he ships her off to Boston to work with lo- couple bonds. They do the things chicks do, the troubled brother. Marlon Wayans is al- Belushi is who I thought of while watch- cal law enforcement to bring to justice a new but with a lot more testosterone than in most most too cute as the one agent who is crush- ing The Heat. There are some very funny drug dealer in town. chick flicks. The Heat is directed by Paul ing on Bullock. bits of dialogue in The Heat. The script by In Boston she immediately offends offi- Feig, the director of Bridesmaids. He has a The standard scenes you expect are more Katie Dippold is both clever and funny (Yes, cer Shannon Mullins (McCarthy) and is then knack for letting girls be girls. fun than usual because of the chemistry be- Christopher, women can write funny too!), partnered with her. The manner and tactics Cops are a lot more fun than brides- tween McCarthy and Bullock. They share a but like a lot of Belushi screen vehicles, the of Mullins are the opposite of Ashburn’s.