At the Movies - January 7, 2017
Passengers
A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers.
Passengers
A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers.
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
Jack Reacher must uncover the truth behind a major government conspiracy in order to clear his name.
Fantastic Beasts
The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York’s secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school. Director: David Yates.
Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol. Rated: PG-13. Time: 2:13.
Genius
A chronicle of Max Perkins’s time as the book editor at Scribner, where he oversaw works by Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.
Dr. Strange
A disgraced former surgeon named Stephen Strange becomes a powerful sorcerer under the tutelage of a mystic known as the Ancient One. Directed by Scott Derrickson.
Inferno
When Robert Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up with Dr. Sienna Brooks, and together they must race across Europe against the clock to foil a deadly global plot.
The Magnificent Seven
Seven gun men in the old west gradually come together to help a poor village against savage thieves. A copy of a copy (the original was the Japanese “Seven Samurai” made in 1954), this film’s first Hollywood version had Yule Brenner as the leader and came out during the presidential campaign of 1960. Now Denzel Washington is the crusader just before the election that will decide the legacy of President Barak Obama. Director: Antoine Fuqua.
Cast: Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D’Onofrio, Peter Sarsgaard, Martin Sensmeir. Rated: PG-13. Time: 2:13.