Film Clips: The Amazing Spider-Man

• Columbia Pictures
• The Amazing Spider-Man returns to the big screen.

OPENING TODAY:

’’THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (PG-13) Move over Tobey Maguire, there’s a new Spider-Man in town. NYC’s favorite web-slinger is back on the big screen, this story follows a new thread in the Spider-Man chronicle. Peter Parker is an outcast at high-school, struggling with girls, bullies, and newly-found spider powers? As Parker works to uncover the mystery of his parents’ death he is led to the lab of Dr. Curt Connors, his father’s former lab partner. But as Parker grows closer to Dr. Connors, he starts to realize Connors might not have been the kind lab partner Parker’s father thought he was.
’’KATY PERRY: PART OF ME (PG) Pop star Katy Perry’s road to stardom was not an easy one, and coming from a religious family with her outlandish personality, Perry wasn’t always understood in the beginning. This film follows her journey with exclusive on/off-stage footage, interviews, early performances, in this documentary of one of today’s biggest stars.
’’SAVAGES (R) Ben and Chon have it all, money, a luxurious California beach house, exotic sports cars, the finest medical marijuana grow house in America, and a beautiful girl named Ophelia. That’s right, the best-friend, business partners share a girl friend (I’m still trying to figure that one out). Regardless, when a Mexican drug cartel decides to move its drug business North, they demand that Ben and Chon partner up with their operation. When they refuse the cartel’s offer, the leader, Elena, has Ophelia kidnapped. Now the Ben and Chon have to go guerrilla in order to get their girl back. From director Oliver Stone, this film is jammed with action and the star power to match.
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BATTLE ROYALE (NR) This Japanese 2000 cult classic follows a twisted game that places 42 students on an Island in a Hunger Games-esque battle to the death. Every student is paired against the next in a game where it is kill or be killed. Check out the trailer below to one of Quentin Tarantino’s favorite films of all time, GSU’s Cinefest Theatre, 66 Courtland Street ‘’

STAND BY ME (R) This 1986 classic coming-of-age film follows the journey of 4 boys who want one last summer adventure before they go their separate ways in school. Based on Steven King’s short story, The Body the boys overhear about the dead body of a boy that authorities are looking for and they decide to go out and find it. During the journey the boys are faced with all the struggles of becoming adults and figuring out their place in the world. 7:30 p.m. tonight at the Plaza Theatre 1049 Ponce De Leon Ave ‘’
WHORES’ GLORY (NR) Documentary film-maker Michael Glawogger’s third film in his globalization trilogy (including Megacities and Workingman’s Death) provides an in depth look into the oldest profession on earth: prostitution. Following the lives of prostitutes in Bangladesh, Mexico and Thailand, Glawogger provides a non-judgmental study of the drastic affects this occupation can have in different cultures. Midtown Art Cinema 931 Monroe Drive

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