Magic Lantern Films Summer 2008
Isla Vista Theater/$4
3 Nights A Week!
Thursdays, Fridays & Mondays All @ 10:00PM

Doomsday
Directed by Neil Marshall
June 26, 27, 30 @ 10PM

“Terrific! This is Baz Luhrmann's "Mad Max." – Boston Globe

"This over-the-top action-horror-sci-fi hybrid is bursting at the seams with gore and gleefully recycled end-of-the-world clichés." - E! Online

R for strong bloody violence, language and some sexual content/nudity.

Authorities brutally quarantine a country as it succumbs to fear and chaos when a virus strikes. The literal walling-off works for three decades--until the dreaded Reaper virus violently resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists, captained by Eden Sinclair (Rhona Mitra), is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.

The Forbidden Kingdom
Staring Jackie Chan & Jet Li
July 3 & 7 @ 10PM (No Screening on the 4th)

“The best fantasy story since the genre was opened to a wider audience by "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." - ReelViews

“Joyous and exhilarating.” - Seattle Post-Intelligencer

PG-13 for sequences of martial arts action and some violence.

While hunting down bootleg kung-fu DVDs in a Chinatown pawnshop, Jason makes an extraordinary discovery that sends him hurtling back in time to ancient China. There, Jason is charged with a monumental task: he must free the fabled warrior the Monkey King, who has been imprisoned by the evil Jade Warlord. Jason is joined in his quest by wise kung fu master Lu Yan and a band of misfit warriors including Silent Monk. But only by learning the true precepts of kung fu can Jason hope to succeed - and find a way to get back home.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall
July 10, 11, 14 @ 10PM

"The kind of movie you could watch all day because, like a new flame, you can't get enough of its company and are just glad to see where it takes you."- Chicago Tribune

“The funniest comedy of the year!” NY 1

“One of the funniest damn movies I have ever seen!” - Richard Roeper Ebert & Roeper

“Every bit as funny as Knocked Up and Superbad” – Fox TV

R for sexual content, language and some graphic nudity.

After a devastating break-up with his girlfriend, TV sitcom star Sarah Marshall, a heartbroken and depressed Peter heads to Hawaii for a little vacation to try his best to forget every detail of his relationship. But love laughs at Peter, because Sarah is vacationing in the same exclusive resort as Peter, along with her new boyfriend.


Shine a Light
A Martin Scorsese Film
July 17, 18, 21 @ 10PM

“An exhilarating musical experience!” - Seattle Post-Intelligencer

“An expertly made concert film!” - Christian Science Monitor

“In Shine a Light, a crackling concert movie directed by Martin Scorsese, the Rolling Stones are now so old that they seem new again.” – Entertainment Weekly

PG-13 for brief strong language, drug references and smoking.

In autumn 2006 the Rolling Stones gave two concerts at Beacon Theatre in New York. Here, in the 2,800-seater old Broadway theatre that opened in 1928, we encounter living legends Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ron Wood and Charlie Watts. Before an enthusiastic audience that includes Hillary and Bill Clinton, the Stones present their hit songs as well as less known numbers. Guest appearances include Christina Aguilera, blues legends Buddy Guy and Jack White.

Baby Mama
July 24, 25, 28 @ 10PM
"It's a perfectly bred combination of razor-sharp satire and female buddy comedy." E! Online

" 'Baby Mama' is filled with surprises and laughter." (Gene Shalit, TODAY)

" 'Baby Mama' delivers the laughs non-stop. A warm and engaging comedy you are guaranteed to fall in love with." (Pete Hammond, Hollywood.Com)

"Oh Baby! Hands down - this is the funniest comedy I've seen this year!" (Bill Zwecker, Chicago Sun-Times)

PG-13 for crude and sexual humor, language and a drug reference.

Successful and single businesswoman Kate Holbrook has long put her career ahead of a personal life. Now 37, she's finally determined to have a kid on her own. But her plan is thrown a curve ball after she discovers she has only a million-to-one chance of getting pregnant. Undaunted, the driven Kate allows South Philly working girl Angie Ostrowiski to become her unlikely surrogate. Simple enough. After learning from the steely head of their surrogacy center that Angie is pregnant, Kate goes into precision nesting mode: reading childcare books, baby-proofing the apartment and researching top pre-schools. But the executive's well-organized strategy is turned upside down when her Baby Mama shows up at her doorstep with no place to live. An unstoppable force meets an immovable object as structured Kate tries to turn vibrant Angie into the perfect expectant mom. In a comic battle of wills, they will struggle their way through preparation for the baby's arrival. And in the middle of this tug-of-war, they'll discover two kinds of family: the one you're born to and the one you make.

Iron Man
STARRING Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges and Gwyneth Paltrow
July 31, August 1 & 4 @ 10PM

"One of the hippest, best-written and best-directed superhero movies ever..." - New York Post

"It's been years since a movie superhero was this fierce and this funny." - Rolling Stone

“A Lot of Fun! Robert Downey Jr. gives a blazing performance”
– Richard Roeper, At the Movies

"One of the smartest superhero films to come down the pike in some time." - Chicago Sun-Times

PG-13 for some intense sequences of sci-fi action and violence, and brief suggestive content.

Tony Stark is a billionaire industrialist and genius inventor who is kidnapped and forced to build a devastating weapon. Instead, using his intelligence and ingenuity, Tony builds a high-tech suit of armor and escapes captivity. When he uncovers a nefarious plot with global implications, he dons his powerful armor and vows to protect the world as Iron Man.