For an online film guide, see augustachronicle.com/movies:
NEW THIS WEEK
I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL (R): An unreformed alpha male leads two friends into an evening of unrepentant dabauchery. Augusta Exchange
LAW ABIDING CITIZEN (R): A father whose family is murdered takes revenge on criminals and the legal system. Augusta Exchange, Evans, Aiken
MY ONE AND ONLY (PG-13): A mother takes her two sons on the road searching for a sense of family. Based on the early life of Hollywood legend George Hamilton. Augusta Exchange
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY (R): A young couple discovers suburbia isn't a safe haven from demonic infestation. Augusta Exchange
STEPFATHER (PG-13): The man momma married may not have been the best choice, what with him being psychotic and all. Augusta Exchange, Evans, Aiken
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE (PG): A boy in a wolf suit is adopted by a clan of tooth-and-clawed monsters. Awww. Augusta Exchange, Evans, Aiken
ONGOING
9 (PG-13): The survivors of the apocalypse battle the machines trying to exterminate them. Evans
CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS ( ****, PG): Animated adaptation of the beloved children's book about a town where food rains from the sky. Aiken, ends today at Augusta Exchange, Evans
COUPLES RETREAT (PG-13): Evans, Aiken, Augusta Exchange
DISTRICT 9 ( ****, R): Attention all sci-fi movie fans: Get ready to have your butt kicked. Begins Friday at Masters
FAME (PG): Influential 1980 musical about the New York City's High School of the Performing Arts gets a toning-down of the original R-rating to a High School Musical-friendly PG-13. Augusta Exchange, Evans
G-FORCE (PG): Guinea pigs become mini James Bonds. Masters
G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA ( **, PG-13): An elite military squad fights the evil COBRA. Masters
THE GOODS: LIVE HARD, SELL HARD (R): A used-car liquidator is hired by an auto dealership. Augusta Exchange
THE HANGOVER (R): Four friends retrace their steps the morning after a night of hard partying in Las Vegas . Masters
THE INVENTION OF LYING (PG-13): In an alternate universe in which the concept of lying does not yet exist, a man (Ricky Gervais) develops the ability to fudge the truth and discovers what countless politicians and CEOs have learned: Dishonesty can make you rich and powerful. Evans, ends today at Augusta Exchange
THE INFORMANT! ( ***, R): Director Steven Soderbergh returns to the mainstream with this comic drama about a corporate whistleblower (Matt Damon) working with the FBI to expose a price-fixing conspiracy. Evans, ends today at Augusta Exchange, Aiken
JENNIFER'S BODY ( **, R): JUNO screenwriter Diablo Cody returns with a horror comedy starring Megan Fox. Evans
LOVE HAPPENS (PG-13): A self-help guru writes a book about mourning, then falls for one of his readers (Jennifer Aniston). Augusta Exchange, Evans, Masters, ends today at Augusta Exchange, Aiken
PANDORUM (R): Astronauts awaken from cryogenic sleep aboard a spaceship and can't remember who they are or what their mission is. They even forgot to screen the movie in advance for critics. Now that's scary! Augusta Exchange, ends today at Evans
PONYO ( ***1/2, G): Ponyo will defy her father, fall in love with a human boy and trade fins for feet. Augusta Exchange
THE PROPOSAL (PG-13): Romantic comedy with Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds. Masters
SHORTS ( ***, PG): Robert Rodriguez channels his inner 11-year-old. Augusta Exchange
SORORITY ROW ( **, R): Sorority sisters get picked off by the ghost of their past sins. Begins Friday at Masters
SURROGATES (PG-13): FBI agents (Bruce Willis and Radha Mitchell) investigate a murder involving artificial "surrogates," robotic aliases used by recluses to represent them in the outside world. Augusta Exchange, Evans, Aiken
TOY STORY 1 & 2 IN 3D (G): Converting Pixar's history-changing cartoons Toy Story and Toy Story 2 into 3-D and pairing them, in theaters, for a double feature reminds us how very good these movies were and remain, how great the computer animation and how witty and sentimental the scripts. Evans
TYLER PERRY'S I CAN DO BAD ALL BY MYSELF **, PG-13): Madea (Tyler Perry) entrusts young delinquents to their aunt (Taraji P. Henson). Augusta Exchange, Evans, Aiken
ZOMBIELAND (R): A gun-toting Woody Harrelson and a wuss scared of his shadow (Jesse Eisenberg) join forces to survive in a world overrun by flesh-eating zombies in this derivative but still entertaining horror comedy from first-time director Ruben Fleischer. Evans, Augusta Exchange, Aiken
ENDING TODAY
Aliens in the attic ( **, PG): A family discovers exactly what the title promises. Masters
ALL ABOUT STEVE (PG-13): A lonely oddball (Sandra Bullock) goes on a blind date with a TV cameraman (Bradley Cooper) and decides he's The One. The catch? He doesn't feel the same way. Evans
CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY (R): Michael Moore's most impassioned cinematic plea for activism yet explores the recent banking and housing collapse and the increasingly larger -- and more destructive -- role corporations have played in the U.S. government since the Reagan era. Augusta Exchange
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS ( *, R): Quentin Tarantino's dumb and violent shoot-'em-up. Augusta Exchange, Evans
TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN (PG-13): Robots in disguise return to unleash more destruction. Masters
UP (PG): A grumpy retiree and a Scout travel by balloon-borne house to the wilds of South America. Masters
WHIP IT (PG-13): Drew Barrymore's smashing directorial debut is thoroughly predictable and formulaic, but it's still one of the most enjoyable crowd pleasers of the year. Ellen Page stars in this story of a small-town beauty queen turned roller-derby ruffian. Augusta Exchange, Aiken
SCREEN GEMS Dylan Walsh in Stepfather
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