Looking for a way to escape the foggy, overcast weather for a few hours? Our local movie houses, the 4-Star Theatre and the Balboa Theater, are now both offering double features. The Balboa recently added them back into their lineup.
The 4-Star’s double feature for the next week pairs two comedies, the wildly popular “The Hangover” with “Away We Go”. The Hangover is about a group of guys who head to Vegas for a bachelor party and spend most of the movie piecing together what happened to them on the night before. It’s very funny and stars Bradley Cooper.
Away We Go, starring Maya Rudolph and John Krasinski, follows an unmarried couple who is expecting their first child travel as they travel around the U.S. to find a perfect place to start their family. Of course along the way, they have some misadventures.
See these two fun flicks for $9.00, or just $7 for a bargain matinee or if you’re over 65. The 4-Star Theatre is located at Clement & 23rd Avenue. Check 4-Star showtimes
The Balboa Theater, located at 38th Avenue and Balboa, is going all out with two sets of double features. The first pairs Captain Abu Raed with Moon. Abu Raed is the story of a lonely janitor at Amman’s International Airport, who one day finds a a discarded Captain’s hat in the trash at work. He is followed by a neighborhood boy who spots him wearing it as he walks home and the next morning he wakes up to find a group of neighborhood children at his door, believing him to be an airline pilot. And thus the friendship begins.
Moon is a sci-fi story about astronaut Sam Bell, who is living on the far side of the moon, completing a three-year contract with Lunar Industries to mine Earth’s primary source of energy, Helium-3. But before he can finish and return home to his Earth family in a few weeks, his health starts to deteriorate. Roger Ebert says “Moon is a superior example of that threatened genre, hard science-fiction, which is often about the interface between humans and alien intelligence of one kind of or other, including digital”.
The second double feature at the Balboa is Cheri with Food, Inc. Cheri stars Michelle Pfeiffer who in this seductive and sensational tale, stars as a ravishing Parisian courtesan who takes a naïve young man half her age—rising British star Rupert Friend—into her boudoir to teach him a thing or two about women.
In Food, Inc. filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that’s been hidden from the American consumer. Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield Farm’s Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms’ Joel Salatin, Food, Inc. reveals surprising–and often shocking truths–about what we eat, how it’s produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.
Admission prices at the Balboa are also $9.00, $6.50 for bargain matinees. And if it’s your birthday, you get in FREE! I love that. 🙂 Check Balboa showtimes
And of course, both movie theaters are surrounded by a variety of restaurants. The Balboa Theater even has a handy local restaurant guide on their website. So why not escape this dreary weather for awhile and make a night or an afternoon out of it? Don’t forget the popcorn.
Sarah B.