This funny, unpretentious film marked writer John Hughes’s first time out as a director. The premise is ordinary, but the film is distinguished by funny gags and excellent performances by Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall. Samantha (Ringwald) is a high-school sophomore about to turn …

By tying thousands of balloon to his home, 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen sets out to fulfill his lifelong dream to see the wilds of South America. Right after lifting off, however, he learns he isn’t alone on his journey, since Russell, a wilderness explorer 70 years …

When his brother is killed in a robbery, paraplegic Marine Jake Sully decides to take his place in a mission on the distant world of Pandora. There he learns of greedy corporate figurehead Parker Selfridge’s intentions of driving off the native humanoid “Na’vi” in order …

Come to Jack London Square for a free outdoor showing of Dreamgirls, a musical about the history of Motown Records and The Supremes, nominated for eight Academy Awards. Let your inner diva out with a free Dreamgirls-inspired Motown karaoke contest. Prizes will be awarded.
The 2006 …

The locally-run Dolores Park Movie Night (not to be confused with the much larger city-wide “Film Night in the Park” event) continues its 2010 season with free movies on the second Thursday of each month in Dolores Park with the Jack Nicholson classic “Chinatown”.
About “Chinatown”: …

Alice, an unpretentious and individual 19-year-old, is betrothed to a dunce of an English nobleman. At her engagement party, she escapes the crowd to consider whether to go through with the marriage and falls down a hole in the garden after spotting an unusual rabbit. …

Amélie is a shy waitress in a Montmartre café. After returning a long-lost childhood treasure to a former occupant of her apartment, and seeing the effect it has on him, she decides to set out on a mission to make others happy and in the …

In the distant future, a small waste collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind.
Friday September 24, 2010 – 8pm/Dusk
San Geronimo Valley Community Center,
6350 Sir Francis Drake Blvd. San Geronimo, CA 94963
FREE
Films are free of charge in …

The Coen brothers’ “The Big Lebowski” is a genial, shambling comedy about a human train wreck, and should come with a warning like the one Mark Twain attached to “Huckleberry Finn”: “Persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.” It’s about a …