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Show Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, September 5-8, 2009 The Park Record C-8 Movies in brief GREAT LOCATION Market Place Storage 6344 Pmmontoiy Ranch RcL \ Park City, UT 84098 435.649-4443 Hours: Mon-Fri 9 am - 6 pm Sat 9 am - 5 pm Sun - Closed You've Seen the Rest, Now Try the Best! P'V Features: Ask About Our: • Professional On-Site Management • NO Deposits, NO Administration Fee • Individually Alarmed Units • Computerized Gate • Climate Control Units • Month to Month Rentals • Prepaid Discounts • Senior & Military Discounts • Referral Rewards Program • Commercial Account Rates • Move In Specials • Easy Auto Billing FIFTY DEAD MEN WALKING. "Fifty Dead Men Walking" tells a highly charged version of one informant's life story, which is also the story of multiple near-deaths. This sharp, well-acted film is based on the autobiography of Martin McGartland (Jim Sturgess), a West Belfast Catholic who in the late 1980s insinuated himself into the good graces of the Irish Republican Bring This Flyer and Get One Month Free with First Month Paid!* "SEW CUSTOMERS ONLY EA 155/80R13 TOURING 185/70R-14 185/65R-14 195/65R-15 L205/65R-15 PERFORMANCE BANDSLAM. "Bandslam" is a pretty good movie, and the odds of its being a pretty bad movie were pretty steep. A lonely new kid in town (Gaelan Connell) becomes manager of teen band fronted by cutest girl on planet (Aly Michalka). If band wins big Bandslam contest, it's a record deal and fame. While the setup is synthetic, the characters are a little more complicated than usual, and director Todd Graff ("Camp") lets the story breathe, wander and explore a little. PG (some thematic elements and mild language). 1:51. 3 stars. DISTRICT 9. The premise: An enormous UFO descended from the sky 20 years ago, hovered over Johannesburg and stayed there. Then humans got curious and opened it up, and out spilled a million-plus alien creatures, leading to an immigration crisis. This film, shot like a documentary from the future, packs such a terrific central idea that even its flaws can't stop the train. In its first hour it barrels along with the velocity of a new classic; as it settles for being, a good addition to the venerable aliens-come-calling genre, you feel a slight letdown. But that first half? Nice. R (bloody violence and pervasive language). 1:52. 3 *43 *48 *52 *53 TRUCK/SUV Army in order to funnel intelligence to the occupying British forces. Writer-director Kari Skogiand keeps the players vivid and relatively honest, and never shies away from the brutalities. R (strong brutal violence and torture, language and some sexuality). 1:57. 3 stars, THE GOODS. Sloppy, grimy but quick on its feet., "The Goods" stars Jeremy Piven as Don "The Goods" Ready, the swiftest shark in the used-car business. He PHOTO COURTESY OF WARNER BROS and some other rogue salesJimmy Bennett plays an 11 year old who has multiple torfolk are hired by a used-car legend (James Brolin) to mentors in the film "Shorts." move the inventory, pronto, over a Fourth of July week- tary and puppet re-enact- Tina Fey lend their voices to end. "The Goods" cooks up ments with the slightest push this charmer. G. 1:40. 4 stars. just enough narrative fodder from its stars-Charlyne Yi POST OR AD. In this minor to hold this jalopy together, and Michael Cera-as varia- but agreeable romantic comand it offers a fair number of tions on themselves. This edy, a college graduate low, cheap, verbally adroit romantic fable begins with (Alexis Blcdel) moves back and usually fiithy laughs. R the notion that Yi doesn't in with her folks (Michael (sexual content, nudity, per- believe in fairy tales when it Keaton and Jane Lynch) and vasive language and some comes to love. She confronts tries to decide between the drug material). 1:29. 2-1/2 her state of disillusionment hunk next door (Rodrigo with a search for what love Santoro) and her lovesick pal stars. means to all types of people. (Zach Gilford). The material JULIE & JULIA. Writer- But "'real" life, in the form of may be formulaic, but the director Nora Ephron adapts Cera, who suddenly emerges spirit of the piece is friendly, and intertwines two books: as possible boyfriend materi- and we're reminded of what Julia Child's "My Life in al, complicates everything. the hugely talented Keaton is France" and Julie Powell's PG-13 (some language). capable of. PG-13 (sexual sit"Julie & Julia.'1 The latter 1:28. 3 stars. uations and brief strong langrew out of Powell's online PONYO. The title character guage). 1:29. 3 stars. experiment, a year spent in this animated feature is a SHORTS. This children's cooking and blogging her goldfish (voiced by Noah movie focuses on an 11-yearway through the seminal Cyrus, Miley's sister) who old (Jimmy Bennett) with Child volume "Mastering longs to become human. Five multiple tormentors and a the Art of French Cooking." minutes into this magical film rainbow-colored rock that It may not make for great you'll be making lists of the grants wishes. There are cinema, but you go to a people you can expose to the holes in the story that a 3movie like this for the sauces special mixture of fantasy year-old could point out, the and stews, and for the con- and folklore that make up many fine grown-ups (Jon siderable pleasure of seeing the enchanted vision of Cryer, William H. Macy, (and listening to) Meryl Japanese director Hayao Leslie Mann, James Spader) Streep's drolly exuberant Miyazaki. This sweel- are mostly squandered, and performance as Child. Amy natured feature emphasizes the "message" part of the Adams is also very good as the joys of childhood friend- movie for the kids seems as if Powell. PG-13 (brief strong ships, but it still manages to it were thrown together durlanguage and some sensuali- be exciting when it needs to, ing a school detention. PG ty). 1:50. 3 stars. and it's been given first-class (mild action and some rude PAPER HEART. A clever treatment by distributor Walt humor). 1:48. 1 star. hybrid of a film that swings Disney Studios. 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