@ Park & Tilford Cineplex
200 — 333 Brooksbank,
North Vancouver (985-3911)
Hollow Man (18A) — 1,
1:45, 6:45, 7:25, 9:30, 10 pm
What Lies Beneath (14A) —
1:15, 6:55, 9:50 p.m.

Nutty Professor 2: The
Klumips (14A) — 7:15, 9:40

p.m.

X-Men (PG) —- 1:30, 7:05,
9:20 p.

Sexy Movie (18A) — 7:20,

Thetas & The Magic
Railroad (G} — 2:15 p.m.
Loser (PG) — 2 p.m.

Ba Esplanade 6 Cinemas
200 W. Esplanade, North
. Vancouver (983-2762)

-  Caicken Run — 1, 3:30, 7:15,

9:30 p.m.

-. Coyote Ugty — 1:20, 3:45,
720, 9:40 p.m.

Disney's The Kid — 1:15,
4:10, 7.05, 9:20 p.m.

Pokemon — 1:30, 4:08, 7

“p.m

Space Cowboys — 1:05, 4,

:- 7:10, 9:50 p.m.
‘The In Crowd — 9:45 p.m.

“The. Perfect Storm — 1:40,

4:20, 7:25, 10 p.m.
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West Vancouver (926-6699) :

Up At The Villa (PG) —

2" pam.
aan Me, Mi and Irene (18A)
vp se 9:15 pam. -
Gladiator (18A) — 7:30 p.m.
New Waterford Girl (PG) —
7:10 p.m. :
Buttery (144) — 9:05 p.m.

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@ Fifth Avenue Cinemas. .
2110 Burrard at Sth;

¢ Sharks — L218, a
* Wed, Aug. 9, 9:35 p.m.,

Vancouver (734-8700)
Shower (14A) — 7:15, 9:25
p.m. Sat/Sun 2:15, 4:45 p.m.
Mon/Tue 4:45 p.m.

The Terrorist (PG) —- 7-95,
9:40 p.m. Sat/Sun 1:45, +
p.m. Mon/Tue 4 p.m.

Une Liaison
Pornographique (14A) —

7:20, 9:15 p.m. Sat/Sun 2:30,

5 p.m. Mon/Tue 5 p.m.
After Life (G) -— 7, 9:30
p.m. Sat/Sun 1:30, 4:30 p.m.
Mon/Tue 4:30 p.m.

Chuck and Buck (144A) —
7:10, 9:45 p.m. Sat/Sun 2,
4:15 p.m. Mon/Tue 4:15
p.m. (no 7:10 p.m. shows
Aug 9, 10)

@ Park Theatre

3440 Cambie at 18th,
Vancouver (876-2747)

What Lies Beneath (14A) —
7, 9:30 p.m., Sat/Sun + p.m.

Varsity Theatre

4375 West 10th at Trimble,
Vancouver (222-2235)
Three Seascns (PG) — 7,
9:30 p.m. plus Sat/Sun 1:30,
4 p.m.

Hollywood Theatre
3123 West Broadway,
Vancouver (738-3211)
Shaft (14A) — 7:30 p.m.

| MsI-2 (14A) — 9:20 p.m.

@ Yan East Cinema

2290 Commercial Drive,
Vancouver (299-9000)

Judy Berlin — Aug 4 to 10
7:30 & 9:25 p.m.

“Vancouver premiere, director

Eric Mendelsohn won for best
director at the 1999 Sundance
Film Festival.

Pacific Cinematheque
1131 Howe St., Vancouver
(684-3456)

—— Sizeling Summer Suspense:
New 35 mm prints of classi
Hitchcock fim: Vertigo
(1958) — Fri, Aug. 4, 7:15
p-m., Sat., Aug. 5, 9:30 p.m.
Young and Innocent (1937)
— Fri, Aug. 4, 9:40 p.m.,
Mon, Aug. ry. 7:30 p.m.
Notorious (19: £6) — Sat,
Aug. 5, 7:30 p.m., Sun, Aug.

. 6, 9:20 p.m. The Trouble

With Harrv (1955) — Sun,
Aug. 6, 7: 30 pm. . Mon, Aug.
7, 7:30 p.m. § (1993) —
Mon, June 7, 7:30 p.m., Wed,

‘June 9, 9:15 p.m.

—~ Imitations of Life: The
Universal Douglas Sirk in new
35 nim prints: Magnificent

". Obsession (1954) — Wed,
. Aug. 9, 7:30 p.m., Thurs.,

Aug: 10, 9:15 p.m. The
Tarnished Angels (1957) —

Thurs, Aug. 10, 7:30 p.m.
“The 1950s melodramas of
drector Douglas Sirk consti-
tute one of the most piercing
critiques of American society
to be found in classic
Hollywood cinema.”

@ Hollow Man x*
Directed by Paul
Verhoeven. Starring
Elisabeth Shue and Kevin
Bacon.

HOLLOW Maz intro-
duces a credible moral
dilemma: what would
you do if no one could
see you? It’s an interest-
ing concept that is all
but obliterated by direc-
tor Paul Verhoeven’s
brand of soft-porn sci-
ence.

Science fiction has always
gone hand-in-glove with pulp
trashiness, but I have to won-
der if Verhoeven was trying to
resurrect his 1995 offering,
Showgirls.

Scientist Linda McKay
(Elisabeth Shue) and top vet-
erinarian Sarah (Kim Dickens),
are right up there with latest
Bond girl Dr. Christmas Jones
in giving female scientists the
world over a bad name.
Straight out of the pages of
Cosmopolitan magazine, they
strut temptingly about in crop
tops, low-cut Tees, tight
sweaters and thongs. (Who the
hell was in charge of
wardrobe?)

Wardrobe aside, Shue’s

formance is seriously hol-
low, She bounces around the
lab like Barbie, making her
Adventures In Balysitting role
look Oscar-worthy. Kevin
Bacon fares better as Dr.
Sebastian Caine, the genius
who willingly becomes a
guinea pig in his own invisibil-
ity project.

Naturally, becoming invisi-
ble proves to be the easy part;
it’s regaining human form that
is difficult. Dr. Caine languish-
es in limbo, drunk with power
and going crazy from the
serum and the isolation of the
below-ground lab. He goes
from voyeur, to rapist, to mur-
derer quicker than you can say
“Now you see him, now you
don’t.”

Bacon is invisible for most
of the film, Fis performance,
therefore, is essentially one big
voice-over, and he rises to the
challenge. But the special

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- Photo Stephen Vaughan

KEVIN Bacon stars as scientist Sebastian Caine in Paui Verhoeven’ 's Hollow
Man, now showing at Park and Tilford Cineplex.

effects is the real star of
Hollow Man. The sequences
showing the transformation
from visibility to invisibility are
the highlights of the film.
Groundbreaking effects here
emphasize the beauty of the
body’s interna! structure, giv-
ing us a welcome break from
Caine’s obsession with the
external female form.

How many ways can you
see an invisible man? Set him
on fire; pour water/fire extin-
guisher foam/blood on him;
blow smoke on him; electro-
cute him. These all involve
complex and mostly impressive
effects.

Verhoeven’s impressive sci-
fi filmography (Starship

Troopers, Total Recall,
Rebocop) should bring fans of
his work into the theatre, but
Hallow Man’s near B-movie
qualizy may make it a cult clas-
sic.

Hi Chuck and Buck kkk
Directed by Miguel Arteta.
Written by and starrin;

Mike White. Chris Weitz co-
stars.

Ever have one of those
friends who couldn’: take the
hin? Who called you inces-
santly, showed up unan-
nounced, and invited himself
to your parties? .

Twenty-seven-year-old
Buck (Mike White) is one of .
those guys who won't take no

for an answer. The best rela-
tonship he ever had was with
his friend Chuck (Chis Weitz)
when they were 11. Chuck
moved away; Buck didn’t even
leave his room.” oo
In fact, things haven’t .
changed much at all in Buck’s
world since he and Chuck -

_ were friends. He still lives with ca

his Mom, his room a shrine to
early "80s boyhood.
When Buck’s mom dies, he

sees an opportunity to rekindle ©

his friendship with Chuck,
now Charlie, a successfil -

“record executive, and invites

him to the funeral. Despite an

awkward start, Buck then

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