------Movie Times • Thursday-Wednesday, April 17-23------Daily: 12:45, 3:30, 6:35, 9:15 & Sherman) • No r t hw o o d Ci n e m a Gr i l l , Fo r t Wa y n e DRAFT DAY (PG13) — Kevin Costner stars OPENING THIS WEEK • Ca r m i k e 20, Fo r t Wa y n e Thurs.: 4:00, 7:00 as the G.M. of the Cleveland Browns BAD WORDS (R) — Jason Bateman stars Thurs.: 12:30, 12:50 (3D), 1:15 (3D), Fri.-Sat.: 12:00, 4:00, 7:15 in Ivan Reitman’s comedy-drama about Bears (G) in and directed this subversive comedy 3:40, 4:25, 6:45, 7:05 (3D), 7:30 (3D), Sun.: 12:00, 4:00, 7:00 the NFL draft. Jennifer Garner and about a guy who hijacks the national 9:50 Mon.-Wed.: 4:00, 6:45 Frank Langella co-star. A Haunted House 2 (G) spelling bee. Allison Janney, Kathryn Fri.-Sat.: 12:30, 12:50 (3D), 1:15, • St r a n d Th e a t r e , Kendallville • Ca r m i k e 20, Fo r t Wa y n e Transcendence (PG13) Hahn (We’re the Millers) and Rohan 3:40, 4:25, 6:45, 7:05 (3D), 7:30, 9:50, Thurs.-Fri.: 7:00 Daily: 1:25, 4:15, 7:00, 9:40 Chand (Homeland) co-star. 10:30, 11:00 (3D) Sat.-Sun.: 2:00, 7:00 • Co l d w a t e r Cr o s s i n g 14, Fo r t Wa y n e • Je ff e r s o n Po i n t e 18, Fo r t Wa y n e Sun.-Wed.: 12:30, 12:50 (3D), 1:15, Mon.-Wed.: 7:00 Thurs.: 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 9:40 12 YEARS A SLAVE (R) — Steve McQueen Wed.: 7:40, 10:20 3:40, 4:25, 6:45, 7:05 (3D), 7:30, 9:50 Fri.-Wed.: 1:30, 4:25, 7:15, 9:55 directs Chiwetel Ejiofor (Amistad, • Co l d w a t e r Cr o s s i n g 14, Fo r t Wa y n e DIVERGENT (PG13) — Neil Burger’s • Hu n t i n g t o n 7, Hu n t i n g t o n Children of Men) in this Best Picture- BEARS (G) — John C. Reilly narrates a Thurs.: 12:10, 12:45 (3D), 1:10 (3D), adaptation of the Hunger Games-like Thurs.: 11:25, 1:55, 4:25, 6:55, 9:25 winning adaptation of Solomon Disneynature “True Life Adventure” 3:25, 4:05, 4:25 (3D), 6:50, 7:15, 7:35 teen literature series by Veronica Roth. Fri.-Wed.: 11:05, 1:40, 4:15, 6:50, 9:25 Northrop’s 1853 autobiography about set against the backdrop of an Alaska (3D), 9:55, 10:25, 10:45 (3D) Shailene Woodley, Theo James and • Je ff e r s o n Po i n t e 18, Fo r t Wa y n e the horrors of slavery in the pre-Civil winter. Fri.-Wed.: 12:15, 1:10, 3:30, 4:10 (3D), Zoe Kravitz star. Thurs.: 12:40, 4:10, 7:30, 10:15 War South. • Ca r m i k e 20, Fo r t Wa y n e 6:40, 7:10, 9:40, 10:20 (3D) • Ca r m i k e 20, Fo r t Wa y n e Fri.-Sun.: 12:05, 4:05, 6:55, 9:50 • Co v e n t r y 13, Fo r t Wa y n e Starts Friday, April 18 • Hu n t i n g t o n 7, Hu n t i n g t o n Thurs.: 1:30, 2:00, 4:00, 4:45, 5:10, Mon.-Wed.: 12:55, 4:10, 7:20, 10:10 Daily: 12:50, 3:35, 6:40, 9:25 Fri.-Wed.: 12:45, 3:00, 5:00, 7:10, Thurs.: 12:20, 3:20, 6:20, 9:20 8:00, 11:00 • No r t h Po i n t e 9, Wa r s a w 9:15 Fri.-Sat.: 12:20, 3:20, 6:20, 9:15, 11:20 Fri.-Sat.: 1:30, 4:00, 4:45, 8:00, 11:00 Wed.: 5:00, 7:30 ABOUT LAST NIGHT (R) — What we have • Co l d w a t e r Cr o s s i n g 14, Fo r t Wa y n e Sun.-Wed.: 12:20, 3:20, 6:20, 9:15 Sun.-Wed.: 1:30, 4:00, 4:45, 8:00 • No r t h Po i n t e 9, Wa r s a w here is a “re-imagining” of Edward Thurs.: 7:00, 9:00 • Je ff e r s o n Po i n t e 18, Fo r t Wa y n e • Co l d w a t e r Cr o s s i n g 14, Fo r t Wa y n e Starts Friday, April 18 Zick’s 1986 adaptation of the David Fri.-Wed.: 12:20, 2:25, 4:30, 6:45, Thurs.: 12:15, 12:30 (3D), 12:45 Thurs.: 12:35, 3:45, 7:10, 10:20 Fri.: 5:45, 8:45 Mamet play (Sexual Perversity in 9:15 (IMAX 3D), 12:55, 3:30, 3:45 (3D), Fri.-Wed.: 12:35, 3:35, 6:35, 9:35 Sat.: 3:00, 5:45, 8:45 Chicago) – except instead of Demi • Je ff e r s o n Po i n t e 18, Fo r t Wa y n e 4:00 (IMAX 3D), 4:10, 6:45, 7:00 (3D), • Hu n t i n g t o n 7, Hu n t i n g t o n Sun.: 3:00, 5:45 Moore, Rob Lowe, Jim Belushi and Thurs.: 7:00, 9:15 7:25, 10:00, 10:15 (3D) Ends Thursday, April 17 Mon.-Wed.: 6:45 Elizabeth Perkins, you’ve got Kevin Fri.-Sun.: 11:30, 2:05, 4:30, 6:45, 9:25 Fri.-Sat.: 11:45, 12:30 (3D), 12:45, Thurs.: 12:30, 3:30 Hart, Michael Ealy, Regina Hall and Mon.-Wed.: 1:25, 4:40, 7:25, 9:40 3:15, 4:00, 4:15 (3D), 6:30, 7:15, 7:30 • Je ff e r s o n Po i n t e 18, Fo r t Wa y n e FROZEN (PG) — An animated Disney Joy Bryant. Same movie more or less; (3D), 9:45, 10:00 (3D), 10:30 Thurs.: 12:15, 3:50, 7:05, 8:05, 10:20 musical comedy loosely based on different ethnicity. CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER Sun.: 11:45, 12:30 (3D), 12:45, 3:15, Fri.-Sat.: 11:20, 12:20, 3:50, 7:10, Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow • Co v e n t r y 13, Fo r t Wa y n e SOLDIER (PG13) — Steve Rogers 4:00, 4:15 (3D), 6:30, 7:15, 7:30 (3D), 9:35, 10:35 Queen. Daily: 12:25, 2:40, 4:55, 7:15, 9:50 (Chris Evans) is having a rough go 9:45, 10:30 Sun.: 11:20, 12:20, 3:50, 7:10, 9:35 • Co v e n t r y 13, Fo r t Wa y n e of it, but directors Joe and Anthony Mon.-Wed.: 12:30, 12:45 (3D), 1:15, Mon.-Wed.: 12:35, 1:15, 3:50, 4:30, Daily: 12:05, 2:25, 4:50, 7:10, 9:40 AMERICAN HUSTLE (R) — Christian Bale, Russo (You, Me and Dupree) devise 3:45, 4:10 (3D), 4:30, 7:00, 7:40 (3D), 7:05, 8:00, 10:20 Bradley Cooper, Amy Adams, Jeremy a way for him to make new Marvel- 8:00, 10:15 • No r t h Po i n t e 9, Wa r s a w GOD’S NOT DEAD (PG) — Christian drama Renner and Jennifer Lawrence star ous friends. Scarlett Johannson also • No r t h Po i n t e 9, Wa r s a w Thurs.: 6:00 starring Shane Harper as a devout col- in this critically acclaimed David O. helps him make the adjustment to the Thurs.: 6:00 (3D), 6:15 Fri.: 5:35, 8:35 lege student and Kevin Sorbo as the Russell crime drama based on the modern world. Fri.: 5:35, 8:35 Sat.: 2:35, 5:35, 8:35 college professor who challenges him FBI’s ABSCAM sting operation of the • Au b u r n /Ga r r e t t Dr i v e -In, Ga r r e t t Sat.: 2:30, 5:35, 8:35 Sun.: 2:35, 5:35 to prove the existence of God. late 70s and early 80s. Friday-Sunday, April 18-20 only Sun.: 2:30, 5:35 Mon.-Wed.: 6:00 • Ca r m i k e 20, Fo r t Wa y n e • Co v e n t r y 13, Fo r t Wa y n e Fri.-Sun.: 10:15 (follows Mr. Peabody Mon.-Wed.: 6:15 Daily: 1:35, 4:25, 7:20, 10:00 ------Draft Day a Big Letdown for Most Football Fans Technically, The Upside of Anger is not Sonny on draft day morning that she is preg- brand, but recent scandals involving all man- a sports movie. But in it Kevin Costner plays nant. She’s supposed to be a tough chick ner of bad behavior of players and the huge a former professional baseball player who, sports exec, yet their affair is a poorly kept Flix cover up of what the league knows about during the course of the movie, gets over secret, a fiction she enables. And, she’s such brain injuries and when they knew has ob- himself, matures considerably and learns a girl and this is such a desperate-for-drama CATHERINE LEE viously put them off their game. Draft Day to live with his past as a sports star. To me, enterprise, she has to tell him her baby bump is a fantasyland where nothing bad happens his appeal as a world-weary sports warrior news on draft day. Rosanna Arquette shows windbag who can’t reason beyond his own in the game. Stadiums gleam with corporate is greater in Anger than in any of his sports up for one completely pointless moment as ego. logos ablaze. Aerial shots that never get too films, even Bull Durham. Hoping to see a Sonny’s ex-wife. As Sonny’s mother, Ellen Hot dog coach Denis Leary, storms close to the action show all is well. flicker of the charm Costner can exude in Burstyn is wasted but still funnier and sharp- around, slams furniture and yells just long There are few hints that anything is this type of role is half of what sent me to er than everyone on screen besides Costner. enough so he can repent later in the film. amiss. Timing is everything, though. I’m Draft Day. Occasionally, I’m asked what my Sean Puff Daddy P Diddy Combs is perfect- sure when the film was in production the idea Technically, Draft Day is a sports movie. “guilty pleasure” movies are. I’m not guilty ly cast as a mumbling, slimy, self-interested, of such constant (and annoying) GM product In it Kevin Costner plays the Cleveland about any movies. My guilty pleasure is pro- not terribly bright sports agent for a smug, placement seemed smart. The film is set, sort Browns general manager in charge of hiring fessional football. That’s the other reason pretty boy player in the draft. of, in Cleveland, a good ol’ Midwestern lo- and firing. Draft day is his biggest day of the I wanted to see Draft Day, and, boy, did it A couple of players are posed as good cale, close to Detroit. But now GM and the year. There is almost no football playing in make me guilty. For instance, in the whole guys. Tom Welling plays the Browns’ quar- NFL are two corporations in desperate need Draft Day, which is disappointing, There is a movie there are no bimbos. There is talk of terback, trying to hang on to his job after of rehab. little bit of archival footage and a little bit of one pretty-boy college player and his con- recovering from an injury that took him out Just as it is clear that the NFL has known invigorating chatter about the game. We’re quests, but unlike the NFL, we neither see for half a season. Chadwick Boseman, fresh about the terrible consequences of head supposed to get the adrenaline charge of the nor hear of any raunchy behavior, not even from his role as Jackie Robinson, plays Von- injuries for a long time and has done all it game from the behind the scenes look at the any glimpses of born or bought female en- tae Mack, an Ohio State linebacker with a can to suppress what it knows in a repulsive play between teams as they trade picks on ticements. What a whitewash. heroic back story. attempt to save money and reputation, it is draft day. The whitewash continues as mostly The other guys who come off with little becoming clear that GM has done the exact As Sonny Weaver Jr., Costner is given white guys decide the fate of mostly black panache are the cameo dudes: Chris Ber- same thing. Some players may be willing extraordinary obstacles to hurdle on this players. Beyond Sonny’s female troubles, man, Jon Gruden, Deion Sanders and James participants. Car buyers aren’t. Is director all-important day. Draft Day is set up like a he’s disliked by fans and franchise players Brown. Whatever naturalness they present Ivan Reitman laughing at them all or is he football version of Moneyball, but the sport and execs for firing his own father, a beloved in their day jobs is not present here. Most just playing along? and circumstances don’t translate as easily and legendary Browns coach. To pile on embarrassing is Roger Goodell who, as But pro football is my guilty pleasure. as the filmmakers want us to believe. Cost- more, Sonny Sr. died just days before draft commissioner, leads the most successful Draft Day has plenty of faults, but sick fan ner is able to bring his trademark charm to day. professional sport, at least here in the United that I am, I enjoyed sideline complaining his character, but little else in the film man- Sonny’s detractors include owner An- States. As he announces the draft picks, he about what they were doing wrong. And ages to generate much excitement. thony Molina, a caricature never made more looks like a clueless spokesman, adrift and Draft Day, like even a mediocre game, still The least interesting element in Draft than predictable by Frank Langella who al- confused, fronting for the guys who are in has some plays and tricks that make you Day is the female factor. Jennifer Garner ways wears his sunglasses, no matter the oc- the game. He looks like the marionette, not want to cheer. plays Sonny’s girlfriend who is the lawyer/ casion. I guess this is supposed to suggest the guy pulling the strings. salary cap executive on the team. She tells menace, but he comes off as A lumbering The NFL is famous for protecting its [email protected] 16------www.whatzup.com------April 17, 2014