Show camoaug ftlaalctaaus tim c Opening 0 this week “Identity” flatedR Ten strangers find shelter at a "D desolate motel during a fierce rainstorm All phones are cut off 0) (of course) and suddenly people killed one by one start o Jamesgetting Mangold's new film sets up its plot nicely but eventually o loses usIt disintegrating into conE fusion could have been funny 0 as a spoof of the genre but jt 0 “) takes itself a little too seriously P for that John Cusack Amanda 2 Peet and Ray Liotta do seem to 0) be having fun though and John X Hawkes is amusing as the nerD vous motel night manager A warning: if you're one of those people who couldn’t take a o shower after ‘‘Psycho” you're (1) not going to want to do laundry CD after “Identity” R for strong violence and language 90 min One and a half stars out of four' —The Associated Press £ u 2 “The Real Cancun” Rated R ' The first reality movie from the people who pioneered the reality-Tgenre with MTVs “The Real World" This is the story of 16 strangers picked to go on spring break in Cancun V and have their lives taped And their lives at least for a week consist of getting drunk on the beach making out with random people waking up hung over the next day and doing it all over again While the beginning feels like a tedious version of a “Girts Gone Wild” video at the and the sexual high-jink-s end drag on Kke bad midnight Skinemax fare several moments are surprisingly fumy— and at hilarious times lanR for strong sexuality-nudit- y Two min and 90 partying guage and a half stars out of four —The Associated Press big-scre- laugh-out-lo- ud “The Pianist" Rated R drama about the experiences of concert pianist Wladislaw Szpilman in Warsaw after Germany's defeat of Poland in 1939 where he survived in hiding as Nazis occupied the city Polanski has personal links with Polish suffering in the Nazi era and his movie has a sense of emotional g urgency and grief Director Roman Polanski With Adrien Brody Maureen Lipman Frank Finlay Emilia Fox (148 min) Three stars out of four — Christian Science Monitor Fact-base- d deep-dwellin- Still showing “Bulletproof Monk” Rated PQ-1-3 Cool title bad movie The flick wastes the OK premise of an ageless Buddhist martial-art- s master (Chow charged with protecting a holy scroll of Yun-Fa- t) ultimate power the story sputtering throutfi a loose string of fight sequences involving cardboard villains led by a geriatric Nazi The fight scenes are all clutter and chaos hurled at viewers with rapid-fir- e editing that obscures the action Seann William Scott and Jaime King have little charisma either for the genre or with each other as romantic leads Chow’s bemused regal stillness provides some mileage but he's in low-remode compared to his romps PG-l- fr past martial-art- s for violence language and some sexual content 104 min One and a half stars out of four — The Associated Press Co-sta- rs nt “Holes” Rated PG Director Andrew Davis' adaptation of Louis Sachar's offbeat novel proves fleetingty fresh and eccentric before tumbling into gooey sentiment at the end Shia LaBeouf stars as a teen wrongly convicted of stealing a pair of sneakers and sent to a dustbowi juvenile camp whose inmates are forced to (Sg holes in a dry lake bed to build character Sigourney Weaver Jon Vbight and Tim Blake Nelson play a colorful band of heavies who run the camp while Patricia Arquette is an Old West bandit seen in flashbacks that unravel the mystery of what the boys are tagging for Teens might find the story corny but the performers deliver with gusto and sincerity PG for violence mild language and some thematic elements 116 minutes Two stars out of four — The Associated Press book tucked inside a parody of “8 Mile” then smothered in the same tired racial stereotypes that have provided the flimsy premise a string of recent comedes Jamie Kennedy stars as Brad —a Gluckman — or white Jewish wannabe rapper who talks and dresses Hce he's straight outta Compton when he really lives in a Malibu mansion His father (Ryan O'Neal) who's running for governor has him kidnapped and taken to the 'hood to change his behavior PG-- 1 3 for sexual humor language and violence 85 min One star out of four —The Associated Press for "B-Ra- “PhoneBooth” “Matibu's Most Wanted” Rated PQ-1- 3 A movie that preaches about being yourself but has a serious identity crisis It’s practicafly a version of a Tony big-scre- en Rated R A yuppie (Farrell) answers a ringing pay phone on a Manhattan street and (tiscov-e- rs he's talking with an unseen psychopath (Sutherland) who Robbins See FILM on pJi April 25 26 & 28 2003 NOW ACCEPTING STUDENTS Fast Forward Charter High School school year the 2003-200- 4 This non traditional public high school was organized to be an option to students identified as being "at risk of completing their High School education In Logan Utah has openings for 30 students for Recognized by leaders in education at bath the local and state levels as an “Outstanding Educational 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