LITTLE ROCK — New this week Hotel Transylvania 80 PG Dracula opens a lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up in safety and comfort, free from meddling from the human world, as a way of controlling the adventurous spirit of his teenage daughter, who’s in grave peril of falling for an ordinary human. Animated.
With voices of Adam Sandler, Selena Gomez, Andy Samberg, Kevin James; directed by Genndy Tartakovsky. (91 minutes) The Invisible War 88 Not rated Academy Awardnominated filmmaker Kirby Dick takes a documentary look at the number of rapes among members of the military. (97 minutes) Neil Young Journeys PG Director Jonathan Demme chronicles the Canadian homecoming of rocker Neil Young, including a 2011 Toronto concert (for which the sound crew used a new high-resolution, digitalrecording process designed under Young’s supervision) and a road trip through Ontario. See review at blooddirtandangels.com (87 minutes) Stars in Shorts Not rated Seven short films whose casts include major stars - Colin Firth, Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh, Keira Knightley, Julia Stiles, Wes Bentley, Jason Alexander, Lily Tomlin, Jesse Tyler Ferguson. (115 minutes) Won’t Back Down 90 PG Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis play mothers from different backgrounds, one a postal worker and one a reporter, who join forces to take on a failing public school system and create a charter school for neighborhood children, including their own. With Oscar Isaac, Holly Hunter, Rosie Perez; directed by Daniel Barnz.
(121 minutes)
MovieStyle, Pages 33 on 09/28/2012