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Fairmount Rocks With Releases

Friday, October 16th, 2009

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SEBRING, October 16, 2009 – The Fairmount Cinema 6 continues to rock Sebring with a host of hot movies.

And not only the movies, but the stars you love are there!

Bruce Willis stars in the Surrogates, which plays exclusively in Highlands County at the Fairmount. Surrogates mixes The Matrix with murder and mystery to give audiences one of the most compelling films of the fall.

Academy-award winner Ellen Page stars in Whip It, a fempower, Roller Derby rock ‘em sock ‘em.

And big-time actors Ricky Gervais and Jennifer Garner bring the laughs and the love in The Invention of Lying (see photo above courtesy of Warner Bros.).

Woody Harrelson is killing the undead and killing audiences with laughs in the wacky Zombieland.

Pandorum and Capitalism: A Love Story round out the offerings.

We apologize as recent events and technical difficulties have precluded a timely update of our site. We are back at full strength and refocused  only on movies. As soon as one or two more technical glitches are resolved, we will update our ads section.

We bemoan the state of affairs at the mall, where teen and young adult mischief continue to plague shoppers and moviegoers alike. Safety remains a concern there, where threats, real and perceived, harangue patrons. We can only hope that that dire situation can be remedied, unless the mall and the Carmike Cinema alike become nothing more than a giant indoor ghost town.

NEW MOVIES!: ‘Gamer’ Starring Gerard Butler

Friday, September 4th, 2009

SEBRING, Sept. 4, 2009 – What do you get when you merge technology with the savage lusts of the beast within each man?

Gamer.

Stud Gerard Butler stars as Kable, a futuristic gladiator in a live-action virtual reality killing game that’s all too real and all too deadly. Forced to be the avatar – the simulated representation – of a young celebrity gamer, Kable seeks a way to save his family and to destroy the wicked mind control technology.

Gamer plays exclusively in Highlands County at the Fairmount Cinema 6.

Also opening are Extract, a comedy of sexual shenanigans, that stars Jason Bateman and Ben Affleck; and All About Steve, wherein Sandra Bullock plays a loony lady who thinks she’s in love with a man who feels like she is stalking him.

All About Steve plays at the Regal Eagle Ridge and the Carmike. Extract plays only at the Carmike.

NEW MOVIES: Three More Open in Highlands, South Polk

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

Shorts 01 BWISHFUL THINKING: Three boys get ready to test the Rainbow Rock’s power to deliver their wildest dreams in the action/comedy Shorts, which plays exclusively in Highlands County at the Fairmount Cinema 6.

PHOTO COURTESY OF WARNER BROS. PICTURES

SEBRING, August 20, 2009 – Area residents can choose three more film to attend beginning tomorrow.

Along with recent box office champs District 9 and G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra, the Fairmount Cinema 6 adds Post Grad and Shorts to its lineup and offers its award-winning service and low prices to customers. PostGrad 01 B

Post Grad, a PG-13 comedy, stars Alexis Bledel as a postgraduate stymied in her job search and forced to live at home with her dysfunctional family. Yahoo! users who previewed Post Grad give it an “A”.

Shorts is a PG-rated action/comedy about human reaction to conformity and nonconformity, and the perils and preciousness of free choice. Yahoo! users give Shorts an “A+”.

InglouriousBasterds 01 B Inglourious Basterds is Quentin Tarantino’s R-rated bloody frolic through anti-Nazi sentiment set, of course, in World War II. Tarantino’s wit and creativity are undeniable, and his ability to meld comedy, smart dialog, philosophy, and sophomoric gore is unmatched, but his films have limited appeal and usually end up as DVD cult classics. Inglourious Basterds stars Brad Pitt as the commander of a squad of American soldiers exacting vengeance upon the Nazis in Europe. IB plays at the Carmike and at the Regal Eagle Ridge.

NEW MOVIES: Three in Highlands and South Polk

Friday, August 14th, 2009

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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.

NEW MOVIES: Fairmount Gets Three!

Friday, July 10th, 2009

Bruno 01 CA GAY OLE TIME: Is promised by Sacha Baron Cohen, who plays the title character, a slinky Austrian supermodel up to no good in Bruno.

PHOTO COURTESY OF UNIVERSAL PICTURES

SEBRING, July 10, 2009The Fairmount Cinema 6 adds three new movies to its lineup for the weekend of July 10 -12.

I Love You, Beth Cooper may be the most promising of the trio. Starring Hayden Panettierre (depicted weekly, it seems, in People magainze) and Paul Rust, I Love You, Beth Cooper is about a buried romantic secret revealed in a graduation valedictory speech, and all the antics that follow. It’s rated PG-13.

Nia Vardalos leverages her success in My Big Fat Greek Wedding in a new romantic comedy, My Life in Ruins, which opened a month ago but just now makes its Highlands County debut. Richard Dreyfuss and Rachel Dratch co-star in this story about a woman with a slow epiphany about her vision for life. Critics and audiences have felt mixed reactions. Our estimation is that her movie is solid, if unspectacular. It won’t be as good as My Big Fat Greek Wedding, but it’s not the disappointment some critics have carped about, mostly because they didn’t like the way Vardalos handled her success.

Bruno returns Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat) to the silver screen to milk success from another strong comedic character. Reviews have been very positive, but beware: this comedy is for a specific audience ready and willing to endure heavily crude and sexual content and nudity, which give Bruno its R rating.

With those ideas in mind, here are our recommendations for this weekend:

The Proposal – romantic comedy with Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock.

Bruno – hard-core comedy about a gayAustrian starring Sacha Baron Cohen.

Ice Age 2 – More great Pixar animation and story with Ray Romano’s voice.

Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen – for the action and special effects set.

NEW MOVIE: ‘My Sister’s Keeper’ Opens

Friday, June 26th, 2009

My Sisters Keeper 01 BSarah (Cameron Diaz) will do anything to save the life of her daughter, Anna (Sofia Vassilieva), including conceiving a new child that can give Anna the transplants or transfusions she needs to survive. But can Sarah keep her family members’ hearts and minds in harmony with hers? That’s the question in My Sister’s Keeper, which debuts today at the Fairmount Cinema 6.

PHOTO COURTESY OF NEW LINE CINEMA

SEBRING, June 26, 2009 – With the Transformers sequel already showcased a minute after midnight on Tuesday/Wednesday, My Sister’s Keeper becomes the only major release for today, showtime Friday.

My Sister’s Keeper is rated PG-13 for mature thematic material and some foul language, and it plays at the Fairmount Cinema 6.

The movie is based on the successful Jodi Picoult novel of the same name. The plot is simple, a strong-willed mother of a diseased child conceives a third child to provide her with the necessary transplants/transfusions.

All is well until the conceived child resents her use and launches a legal battle to usurp the parental authority that locks her in a medical role. Meanwhile, an older brother slips away from the family that ignores him.

My Sister’s Keeper stars Cameron Diaz as the mother, Abigail Breslin as the used child, and Sofia Vassilieva as the daughter with leukemia.

Critics have acclaimed the Picoult novel. Audiences will have to decide whether Director Nick Cassavetes has succeeded in translating the story to the silver screen.

NEW MOVIES: ‘Land of the Lost’, ‘Hangover’ Debut

Friday, June 5th, 2009

The Super Bowl teaser for Land of the Lost is above. Land of the Lost is from Universal Pictures.

SEBRING, June 5, 2009 -Excess is funny is the theme of the day with the release of two new films on Highlands County screens today.

Comedies hope to take control of the big screen and the box office this weekend when two blockbuster hopefuls debut.

The Fairmount Cinema 6 gets the more promising of the two, Land of the Lost, a Will Ferrell PG-13 dinosaur comedy that may appeal to, and may have some suitability for, older children, namely teens or near-teens.

That should provide a viable viewing alternative for the local kids who are now out of school (yesterday was the last day), especially those of middle school age and above.

Ferrell will bring his own brand of excess to younger audiences – his contorted facial expressions, goofy exclamations, and silly pratfalls – in hopes of a big payday in a movie that smacks of an outdoor Night at the Museum. Ferrell’s craft in Land of the Lost may find a more suitable home in front of the kids.

Also debuting is the strictly adult comedy, Hangover. If you liked American Pie or Knocked Up, you may like Hangover. It’s about the change in three guys’ lives after their out-of-control bachelor party in Las Vegas.

The Motion Picture Association of America rates Hangover R for pervasive filthy language, sexual content, including nudity, and drug material. As with Lost, this does not seem like new material to us, just rehashed takes on the “excess is funny’ theme. Hangover plays at the Carmike.

We recommend Star Trek, Wolverine, Terminator Salvation, and Up of the films now playing. They are substantial and outstanding.

Sebring Cinema and Sports should have a review on Land of the Lost later today, so come back and check us out. Don’t rely on pre-packaged material written by people without our sense of community and values.

Wherever you go, whatever you see, enjoy yourselves at the movies!

'Terminator' Opens Thursday At Fairmount

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

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METAL GOD: Those fire-in-the-eyes robots return to erase mankind from the face of the earth in Terminator: Salvation, which opens today (Thursday, May 21) at the Fairmount Cinema 6.

PHOTO COURTESY OF WARNER BROS.

Sebring, May 21, 2009 – The big Memorial Day weekend begins Thursday with the wide release of Terminator Salvation.

Locally, the fourth installment of the series shows at the Fairmount Cinema 6 in Sebring. It has a full schedule with matinees at 2:00 and 4:30 p.m. and in the evening at 7:00 and 9:30.

When Friday rolls around, Terminator will duke it out with Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. The Ben Stiller sequel will air at 500 more theaters and will boot Star Trek off most of the IMAX screens, but even then some predict Terminator: Salvation will sell more tickets.

It’s a tough call. Normally, I would say Night would win; however, this second film seems to lack story and compensate with too many characters and eye-popping effects. That could spell disappointment.

Night will open at the Regal Eagle Ridge and the Carmike.

Mitigating the appeal of Terminator: Salvation is its director, McG. He’s heavy on action, almost to the absurd, and weak on story and characters, so he has something to prove, especially with such a gem of a series.

The Wayans family will also audition for viewers’ time this long weekend with Dance Flick, which also opens at the Fairmount. This comedy will be a nice counterpoint to the superfluity of sci-fi fantasy flicks that are out there.

Enjoy your Memorial Day weekend with time at the movies!

Regal Eagle Ridge Snags 'Angels and Demons'

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

SEBRING, May 12, 2009 – As of this evening, we know that the Regal Eagle Ridge 12 in Lake Wales is getting the Da Vinci Code sequel, Angels and Demons.

AngelsDemons 01Angels and Demons is set to open at the Regal Eagle Ridge on Friday, May 15. There will be four showtimes: a 1:00 p.m. (the only matinee), 4:05 p.m., 7:20 p.m., and 10:25 p.m.

Angels and Demons stars Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, and Stellan Skarsgard, is rated PG-13 for its scenes of violence and thematic material, and last 2 hours and 20 minutes (not counting ads and previews).

MOVIE REVIEW: 'Star Trek' Is Stellar!

Saturday, May 9th, 2009

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THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN: Kirk and Spock size up another planetary threat in the new Star Trek movie at the Fairmount Cinema 6 in Sebring.

PHOTO COURTESY OF PARAMOUNT PICTURES

Star Trek Pros: Snappy, sexy, action-packed movie.

Star Trek Cons: Derivative, story holes.

Worth your time and money?: Yes

SEBRING, May 8, 2009 – The Enterprise guys are back… with more bangs and booms than you can handle.

Star Trek opened early at the Fairmount Cinema 6 in Sebring Thursday evening. Expectations were mixed. Some critics hailed it; others, like ourselves, were cautious. We felt Director J. J. Abrams (of TV’s Lost, and the big screen’s Cloverfield) danced with danger when he went for new actors to take over roles that belonged to William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForrest Kelley, James Doohan, and Nichelle Nichols.

Could he keep Trekkies while he added new fans to a younger, sexier cast?

Not only that, but Abrams wanted to break free of the show’s story moorings so that he could create his own Trek Universe.

So did he succeed?

The new Star Trek is good. If we were grading it, we would give it a solid “B-.” There is plenty of action, plenty of Kirk and Spock, enough of the other crewmembers, by and large, lots of thrilling battle action with the requisite special effects.

Abrams’s ambitions to lay the groundwork for a new series of movies, however, riddle the Robert Orci-Alex Kurtzman story with holes and hobble it with a dose of derivations from previous Trek movies and episodes: messing with the fabric of space and time, sending off a brand new, multi-gazillion credit starship with a raw crew weighted with a superfluity of cadets, Spock’s demon of being a half-breed, another super-weapon, etc.

The biggest holes are how a pedestrian Romulan miner gets hold of a mega-starship with enough firepower to take out half the galaxy, and how quickly Mr. Kirk advances up the ranks.

And the deliveries of some of the new actors, most notably Zachary Quinto as Spock and Karl Urban as Bones, are deficient: Quinito’s voice is soft and feathery as opposed to Nimoy’s strong, clipped tones, while Urban lacks the punch of Kelley’s acidic Southern eloquence.

Clearly, a dialog coach was needed.

Still, the movie has much going for it, including many surprises, and we think old and new fans of Star Trek will be pleased with this one and eager for another.

Star Trek is rated PG-13 for lots of action violence and battle scenes, and a brief sex-related scene. Mostly, it is kid-friendly. It plays exclusively in Highlands County at the Fairmount Cinema 6 in Sebring. For showtimes, see the links in the right hand column.

Our Sebring Cinema and Sports rating (0 to 5 reels, 5 being a classic).

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