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Each week, NeighborhoodCircle.com outlines the week's newest theatrical releases, links to reviews from Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert and NeighborhoodCircle.com writers and readers, and tells you where they're playing in the Lake County area.
And those links to reviews can include yours! That's right, we're eager to hear the opinions of all you film fans out there. You know how it is with opinions - everybody's got one. Share it in NeighborhoodCircle.com and we'll be sure to feature your review and add a link from this column as well.
But speaking of Roger Ebert, his long-running television program will be ending soon after an amazing 33 years on the air. You can read his thoughts on the matter here.
On July 25, don't miss "Rock 'n' Roll Movie Night" outdoors at the Lake County Discovery Museum where they'll be showing School of Rock under the stars.
And don't forget the Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival on July 26 at Ryerson Woods.
The Lake Bluff Public Library Monday Night at the Movies presentation for July 28 will be Reservation Road.
On August 1, Apollo 13 will be screened on the Lake Forest College campus as part of the Lake Forest Day celebration. Go to lakeforestday.com for more information.
The Laschen Community Center in Vernon Hills will hold a Digital Movie Camp for kids August 4-15.
August 8 will be "Flick 'n Float Movie Night" at Hidden Creek AquaPark in Highland Park, when they'll be showing Shrek the Third.
August 8 also marks the next meeting of Carlos & Debbie's Dinner & Film Club. They'll be serving a great meal and showing a great movie: the original The Three Musketeers.
If you have a film event coming up that you'd like us to include, drop us a line at bthomas@neighborhoodcircle.com.
New Releases
CSNY / Deja Vu (R): A documentary about rock stars Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. Now showing at:
Landmark Renaissance Place Cinema
Step Brothers (R): The parents of socially inept adults Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly wed, forcing an uncomfortable merging of the two families. Read Roger Ebert's review here. Now showing at:
Century 16 Deer Park
Kerasotes Vernon Hills Rivertree Court
Marcus Gurnee Cinema
Regal Lake Zurich 12
Regal Lincolnshire 20 & IMAX
The X-Files: I Want To Believe (PG-13): The second film continuing the hit TV series about FBI agents investigating the paranormal. Read Roger Ebert's review here. Now showing at:
Century 16 Deer Park
Kerasotes Vernon Hills Rivertree Court
Marcus Gurnee Cinema
Regal Lake Zurich 12
Regal Lincolnshire 20 & IMAX
Continuing this week…
The Dark Knight (PG-13): It's Batman vs. the Joker in this follow-up to Batman Returns. Read Roger Ebert's review here. Now showing at:
Century 16 Deer Park
CYATM Liberty Twin Theatre
Kerasotes Vernon Hills ShowPlace 8
Marcus Gurnee Cinema
Regal Lake Zurich 12
Regal Lincolnshire 20 & IMAX
Elsa & Fred (PG): A romance blooms between elderly Italians. Read Roger Ebert's review here. Now showing at:
Landmark Renaissance Place Cinema
Fugitive Pieces (R): The story of a Holocaust survivor. Read Roger Ebert's review here. Now showing at:
Landmark Renaissance Place Cinema
Get Smart (PG-13): Steve carell stars in the movie version of the hit 1960s spy spoof TV show. Read Roger Ebert's review here. Now playing at:
Century 16 Deer Park
Highland Park Theatre
Kerasotes Vernon Hills Rivertree Court
Marcus Gurnee Cinema
Hancock (PG-13): Will Smith is a super-powered jerk who tries to reform. Read Roger Ebert's review here. Now showing at:
Century 16 Deer Park
Kerasotes Vernon Hills ShowPlace 8
Marcus Gurnee Cinema
Regal Lake Zurich 12
Regal Lincolnshire 20 & IMAX
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (PG-13): The semi-demonic hero returns to face another supernatural menace. Read Roger Ebert's review here. Now showing at:
Century 16 Deer Park
CYATM Liberty Twin Theatre
Kerasotes Vernon Hills Rivertree Court
Marcus Gurnee Cinema
Regal Lake Zurich 12
Regal Lincolnshire 20 & IMAX
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (PG-13): The long-awaited fourth action adventure about the two-fisted anthropologist. Read Roger Ebert's review here. Now showing at:
Highland Park Theatre
Regal Lincolnshire 20 & IMAX
Iron Man (PG-13): Robert Downey, Jr. as the Marvel Comics superhero, a war profiteer who builds a suit of super-armor to escape capture in a battle zone. Read Jim Emerson's review here. Now showing at:
Highland Park Theatre
Journey to the Center of the Earth (PG): 3-D sci-fi spectacular starring Brendan Fraser as a scientist on a trip way underground. Read Roger Ebert's review here. Now showing at:
Century 16 Deer Park
Kerasotes Vernon Hills Rivertree Court
Marcus Gurnee Cinema
Regal Lake Zurich 12
Regal Lincolnshire 20 & IMAX
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (G): Abigail Breslin stars as an aspiring reporter who takes in a pair of young hobos. Now showing at:
Marcus Gurnee Cinema
Regal Lake Zurich 12
Regal Lincolnshire 20 & IMAX
Kung Fu Panda (PG): Animated kung fu comedy in which a hapless panda (Jack Black) must fulfill an ancient prophecy. Read Roger Ebert's review here. Now playing at:
Marcus Gurnee Cinema
Regal Lake Zurich 12
Regal Lincolnshire 20 & IMAX
Mamma Mia! (PG-13): Meryl Streep owns a hotel in Greece and prepares for her daughter's wedding, not realizing that three old boyfriends are invited - one of whom is the bride's unknown father - in this adaptation of the ABBA music-driven broadway hit. Read Roger Ebert's review here. Now showing at:
Century 16 Deer Park
Highland Park Theatre
Kerasotes Vernon Hills ShowPlace 8
Marcus Gurnee Cinema
Regal Lake Zurich 12
Regal Lincolnshire 20 & IMAX
Sex and the City (R): Movie continuation of the popular HBO romantic comedy series. Read Roger Ebert's review here. Now playing at:
Highland Park Theatre
Space Chimps (G): Animated adventure in which NASA chimpanzees end up on another planet. Read Roger Ebert's review here. Now playing at:
Century 16 Deer Park
Kerasotes Vernon Hills Rivertree Court
Marcus Gurnee Cinema
Regal Lake Zurich 12
Regal Lincolnshire 20 & IMAX
Tell No One: French thriller in which a doctor begins to suspect that his wife was not murdered and is still alive. Now showing at:
Landmark Renaissance Place Cinema
The Visitor (PG-13): A man returns from a business trip to find a foreign couple has been scammed into moving into his apartment. Now showing at:
Landmark Renaissance Place Cinema
WALL-E (G): A Disney/Pixar animated sci-fi adventure about a little robot left on Earth long after the human race has fled the planet. Read Roger Ebert's review here. Now showing at:
Century 16 Deer Park
Kerasotes Vernon Hills Rivertree Court
Marcus Gurnee Cinema
Regal Lake Zurich 12
Regal Lincolnshire 20 & IMAX
Wanted (R): Super-assassin Angelina Jolie recruits revenge-obsessed office worker James McAvoy into a secret society led by Morgan Freeman. Read Roger Ebert's review here. Now showing at:
Century 16 Deer Park
Kerasotes Vernon Hills Rivertree Court
Marcus Gurnee Cinema
Regal Lake Zurich 12
Regal Lincolnshire 20 & IMAX
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