SHOW ME YOUR GREEN, SCALY CARD: Human authorities approach a refugee from another planet in the sci-fi/fantasy film District 9.
PHOTO COURTESY OF SONY/TRISTAR PICTURES
SEBRING, August 14, 2009 – It’s Friday and time for local theaters to reload their auditoriums.
District 9 opens at the Fairmount Cinema 6. Despite fielding no stars and rookie feature-length director Neill Blomkamp, both critics and Yahoo! users have, in a rare agreement, given District 9, a sci-fi/fantasy film, an A, with critics coming in at an A-.
Blomkamp’s prior work included a stint as the visual arts director for TV’s Smallville.
The Time Traveler’s Wife and Bandslam open at the Regal Eagle Ridge and the Carmike.
The Time Travler’s Wife stars Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams and a fantastical premise that Bana’s character is genetically disposed, or indisposed, as the case may be, to spontaneously travel through time, thus disturbing their romance.
Fans may remember McAdams from The Notebook and Red Eye, as well as Bana from The Hulk and The Other Boleyn Girl.
Bandslam is a musical comedy that will appeal mostly to teenagers interested in a musical battle between boys spurred on by a spurned girl.
Going into the weekend, G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra, was the nation’s No. 1 film. G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra continued to do well through the week. For instance, it earned $4.8 million on Wednesday, nearly twice as much as its closest competitor, Julie and Julia. G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra plays at the Fairmount Cinema 6.
