Flashback Cinema
HARRY POTTER & THE GOBLET OF FIRE
2008 • PG-13
Saturday, April 20, Sunday, April 21 & Wednesday, April 24
When Hogwarts hosts students from other schools (“the proud sons of Durmstrang and the lovely ladies of Beauxbatons”) for the legendary (and dangerous) Triwizard Tournament, Harry is unexpectedly chosen to be a contestant. Professor McGonagall (Maggie Smith) provides dance lessons for the glittering Yule Ball. (“I will not have you behaving like a babbling, bumbling band of baboons!”)
THE MATRIX (25TH ANNIVERSARY)
1999 • R
Sunday, April 28 & Wednesday, May 1
Mind-blowing, futuristic action thriller that challenges our assumptions of what is real. Keanu Reeves is Neo, a computer hacker who is lured into a mysterious underworld (“Have you ever had a dream that you were so sure was real?”) With dazzling stunts and Oscar®-winning visual effects that bend the laws of physics. (“Unfortunately, no one can be told what the matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.”)
DIAL M FOR MURDER
1954 • PG
Sunday, May 5 & Wednesday, May 8
Classic spellbinder directed by Alfred Hitchcock, the “Master of Suspense,” and featuring Oscar®- winning stars from Hollywood’s Golden Age. Ray Milland plays a suave tennis pro who suspects his beautiful rich wife (Grace Kelly) of having an affair. A delightful concoction of murder and deception, with twists and turns that will keep you happily on the edge of your seat. (“Do you really believe in the perfect murder?”)
THE WIZARD OF OZ
1939 • G
Saturday, May 11, Sunday, May 12 (Mother’S Day) & Wednesday, May 15
Follow the yellow brick road with Dorothy, Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion, in the beloved musical based on the children’s book by L. Frank Baum. This magnificent Technicolor production features Judy Garland in her star-making role (“Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore…”) and Margaret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch of the West. (“I’ll get you, my pretty…and your little dog too!”)
HARRY POTTER & THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX
2007 • PG-13
Saturday, May 18, Sunday, May 19 & Wednesday, May 22
Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) is on the march, but new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher Dolores Umbrage (Imelda Staunton) is in denial (“You have been told that a certain dark wizard is at large. This is a lie!”). Harry and his friends form “Dumbledore’s Army” to defend Hogwarts (“Every great wizard…has started out as nothing more than what we are now. If they can do it, why not us?”).
BACK TO THE FUTURE
1985 • PG
Saturday, May 26, Sunday, May 27 (Memorial Day) & Wednesday, May 29
Time-travel comedy adventure from Steven Spielberg & Robert Zemeckis. 80’s teenager Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) teams up with mad scientist Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd). (“Doc, are you telling me you built a time machine … out of a DeLorean?”) Marty is transported to the year 1955 and must find a way to get “back to the future.” (“Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads!”)
SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD
2010 • PG-13
Sunday, June 2 & Wednesday, June 5
High-energy, off-the-wall comedy directed by Edgar Wright, based on Bryan Lee O’Malley’s graphic novels. Slacker musician Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) is falling for enigmatic Amazon delivery girl Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) but there’s a problem: to win her love he must first defeat her seven evil ex-boyfriends. Mayhem ensues. Amazing young cast includes Chris Evans, Brie Larson, Brandon Routh and Aubrey Plaza (“Ramona’s out of your league.”)