Film Clips: The Wrath of the Titans is unleashed

The intruder’s president is a titan goon.

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  • Legendary Pictures
  • Perseus must battle the Titans, the world’s greatest warriors, in order to save his father Zeus from Hades



’’INTRUDERS (R) This film follows Mia, a young girl who is writing a horror story for a class project. As she expands upon the tale, her nightmares reveal the hooded monster she created in her story. The more she works on the story the more real the ominous hooded figure becomes, until eventually he is real. Mia’s father can’t believe it at first, but Mia’s horror story becomes a true one as she and her father fight to stay alive.
’’ISLAND PRESIDENT (PG) This documentary follows the life of President Mohammed Nasheed of the Maldives, an island nation at the lowest elevation of anywhere in the world. After successfully introducing Democracy to his country, Nasheed is now faced with the battle of convincing the rest of the world to take global warming seriously. As the world gets warmer, Nasheed’s country slowly is being swallowed by the rising sea levels due to melting polar ice caps. This thought provoking documentary is an insightful way of addressing the issue of global warming with a human element.
’’GOON (R) Sean William Scott stars as Doug, a guy who just doesn’t fit in with his family of geniuses, especially when his career choice is being the bouncer at a club. His life seems pretty bleak, until one day when attending a hockey game, Doug gets in a fight with one of the players and knocks him out cold with one punch. The entire hockey arena goes ballistic when they see this, and Doug finds himself being offered a spot on the team. It seems he has finally found his calling, until the only other hockey player with a more bad ass reputation than Doug lets him know that he is out to get him.
’’MIRROR MIRROR (PG) Julia Roberts stars as the evil queen in this remix of the classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs tale. The evil queen banishes Snow White into the fore in order to swoop in and steal the prince who has fallen in love with Snow White. But Snow White has different plans and enlists the help of seven little dwarfs to try and save the prince from marriage to the evil queen who is only after his money.
’’WRATH OF THE TITANS (PG-13) Perseus, one of the earliest heroes of Greek mythology, must face the dangerous underworld to save his father Zeus. Zeus has been taken captive by his son Ares and his brother Hades. Epic battles ensue, pitting Perseus against the infamous Titans like Cyclops, Medusa and a cast of other mythological monstrosities.

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’’ATLANTA FILM FESTIVAL (Multiple Locations and Films) The 2012 Atlanta Film Festival begins tonight and continues throughout the end of March and into the first day in April. With screenings at Midtown Art Cinema, The Plaza Theatre, The Goat Farm, The Rialto, The Strand, Woodruff Arts Center, and Paris on Ponce among others locations, this year’s festival is a film junkie’s can get his or her fix pretty much anywhere in Atlanta. Film shorts, documentaries, films with Atlanta connections will be lighting up screens all over the city, in addition to lectures and film-making competitions. Visit here for more info and here for a complete list of the screenings.
THE CABIN IN THE WOODS (R) The closing night film of the Atlanta Film Festival features a horror story that follows the trip of five friends to a remote cabin in the woods. As things start to get a little creepy, the audience thinks they are seeing the same old recycled horror story. But as the movie progresses and the twists get more and more absurd, this movie begins to turn the formulaic horror movie genre into something unique and different. Following the screening, there will be a festival-closing party. Sat. March 31, 7 p.m. Midtown Art Cinema 931 Monroe Drive Atlanta GA, $30’’
THE FORGIVENESS OF BLOOD (NR) Winner of Best Screenplay awards at the Berlin and Chicago Film Festivals, director Joshua Marston (Maria Full of Grace) weaves a story around an Albanian family stuck in a bloody feud with neighbors when a small misunderstanding escalates into murder. With the patriarch of the family on the run, the rest of the family must pull together to survive. Midtown Art Cinema 931 Monroe Drive Atlanta GA ‘’

’’TITANIC (3-D) (PG-13) James Cameron’s Academy Award-winning, 1997 blockbuster returns to the big screen with a new three dimensional treatment on Wed., April 4. It’s the same love story between DiCaprio and Winslet, just with way more intense scenes of the ship sinking.
W.E. (R) Madonna, who wrote the script and directed the film, retells the real life story of King Edward VIII and American divorce Wallis Simpson by juxtaposing their story with a contemporary love story between a Russian security guard and a New York Trophy wife named Wally Winsthrop. Winsthrop, who is infatuated with the love story behind King Edward and Simpson, finds love of her own in an unlikely place during her journey to understand Edward and Wallis’ relationship. UA Tara Cinemas 2345 Cheshire Bridge Road NE’’
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