By Chris Foran of the Journal Sentinel. Here's a guide to what's on the big screen in the Milwaukee area. It doesn't include listings for movies formally opening next Friday but having Thursday night screenings, including "Pan. Look for listings and festival details at mkefilm. As always, all theater information is subject to change. Check with individual theaters for updates.
Not rated action violence. Playing: Ridge Wed. Japanese action-fantasy movie, showing in two parts, about the remnants of humanity fighting against a race of giant, man-eating humanoids called Titans β and about the young boy who might lead humans to victory. Based on a bestselling manga series; in Japanese with English subtitles. PG violence, mayhem, some suggestive comments. Playing: Oak Creek Budget.
Plans to protect the world lead Tony Stark a. Iron Man to revive a dormant artificial-intelligence program designed to keep the peace β only the system declares war on the Avengers, and humanity, instead. With Samuel L. R violence, pervasive language, brief drug use. Johnny Depp plays brutal mobster James "Whitey" Bulger, whose decades-long reign of terror in Boston was propelled by a dirty secret: He was also an FBI informant, and used that status to β many, many times β get away with murder as he consolidated his power.
Not rated mature themes. Playing: Mayfair Mall. An innocent young woman is trained in the ways of being a married man's mistress, but emotions get in the way of sticking to the rules. In Tagalog and English, with English subtitles.
PG tense moments, disturbing images. Two expeditions, both led by experienced climbers, set out to scale Mount Everest, when a devastating storm nearly obliterates them all. PG action violence, language. Jordan, Kate Mara and Jamie Bell as the foursome who, after a space experiment gone very, very wrong develop problematic superpowers β just in time to save the world.
