THE ORPHANAGE (EL ORFANATO)
The Orphanage centers on a Laura (Belén Rueda) who purchases her beloved childhood orphanage with dreams of restoring and reopening the long abandoned facility as a place for disabled children. Once there, Laura discovers that the new environment awakens her sons imagination, but the ongoing fantasy games he plays with an invisible friend quickly turn into something more disturbing. Upon seeing her family increasingly threatened by the strange occurrences in the house, Laura looks to a group of parapsychologists for help in unraveling the mystery that has taken over the place.

Carmike Wynnsong 12 – Birmingham
500 Commons Drive, Birmingham, AL
Showtimes: 1:10 4:10 7:10 9:50

Rave Motion Pictures Lee Branch 15
801 Doug Baker Blvd., Birmingham, AL
Showtimes: 1:20 4:45 7:45 10:15

Regal 16 - Birmingham
5895 Trussville Crossings Parkway, Birmingham, AL
Showtimes: 1:40 4:40 7:40 10:10

JUNO
Juno (Ellen Page) is a Mid-Western highschooler, who decides one day, out of boredom or curiosity, to have sex with her friend Paulie Bleeker (Michael Cera), a member of her school's track team. She likes him well enough, but isn't hung up on him. This one time encounter results in Juno's pregnancy. She and her best friend Leah (Olivia Thirlby) decide to take control of the situation by browsing for prospective adoptive parents in the local Pennysaver newspaper, and Juno settles on seemingly the perfect, affluent couple Mark (Jason Bateman) and Vanessa Loring (Jennifer Garner) who is desperate to have a child. Junos sensitive father ( J.K. Simmons) and stepmother (Allison Janney) are very supportive of her and help Juno with her decision to give the baby up for adoption. Juno and her father check out Mark and Vanessa Loring to see if they are the right couple. As time moves closer to having the baby, Juno grows more into a woman, yet she is still a teenager with all the same problems and a few more.

Rave Motion Pictures Vestavia Hills 10
1911 Kentucky Ave.
Showtimes: 2:00 4:50 7:40 10:15

Carmike The Summit 16
321 Summit Boulevard
Showtimes: 1:00 3:10 5:25 7:40 10:00 12:05

Rave Motion Pictures Lee Branch 15
801 Doug Baker Blvd.
Showtimes: 2:10 5:25 7:50 10:30

ATONEMENT
In 1935, 13-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony's vivid imagination. Robbie Turner, the educated son of the family's housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony's headstrong older sister Cecilia. Cecilia, he hopes, has comparable feelings; all it will take is one spark for this relationship to combust.

Rave Motion Pictures Vestavia Hills 10
Showtimes: 1:05pm, 2:05pm, 4:05pm, 7:10pm, 8:00pm, 10:10pm

La Vie en rose (2007)
Directed by Olivier Dahan
Starring Marion Cotillard, Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory, Emmanuelle Seigner, Jean-Paul Rouve, Gérard Depardieu

Synopsis: This French drama explores the often troubled life of the singer as her fame took her from the City of Lights to America to the South of France. Abandoned by her mother, Piaf grew up in her grandmother's brothel and her father's circus, which is hardly the fun one might imagine. While singing on the streets of Paris as a teen, Piaf is discovered by club owner Louis Leplée and this chance encounter changes the woman's life. Her powerful voice takes her all over the globe, but it can't guard her from the pain and suffering she can't avoid.

Bama Theatre - www.tuscarts.org
January 11 – 17, 2008

Behold, a reason to drive to Atlanta:

THERE WILL BE BLOOD!
(Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson)

On the frontier of California's turn-of-the-century petroleum boom, Daniel Plainview transforms himself from a down-and-out silver miner raising a son on his own into a self-made oil tycoon. When Plainview gets a mysterious tip-off that there"s a little town out West where an ocean of oil is oozing out of the ground, he heads with his son, H.W., to take their chances in dust-worn Little Boston. In this hardscrabble town, where the main excitement centers around the holy roller church of charismatic preacher Eli Sunday, Plainview and H.W. make their lucky strike. But even as the well raises all of their fortunes, nothing will remain the same as conflicts escalate and every human value--love, hope, community, belief, ambition and even the bond between father and son--is imperiled by corruption, deception and the flow of oil.

UA Tara - Atlanta
2345 Cheshire Bridge Road NE
Atlanta, GA 30324

Showtimes: 2:00 6:30 10:00