@ Park & Tilford Cineplex

200 - 333 Brooksbank, North Vancouver (985-39 FL}:
Ravenous (ISA) — 10 p.m.

Ed TV (PG) — Fri/Sat/Sun/Mon/Vue 12:40, 3:20, 7:10,
9:30 p.m. Wed/Thur 7 7:10.9:50 p.m.

Shakespeare i in Love (14A) — Fri/Sat/San/Mon/Tue 12:30,
3:10, 6:45, 9:25 p.m. Wed/Phur 6:45, 9:25 p.m.

Wing Commander (PCi} -~ Pri/Sat/Sun/Mon/Tuc 1:10.
3:35, 6:35, 9:15 pam. (no 6:55 p.m. show on Fri, March 20)
Wed/Thur 6:55, 9:15 p.m.

Never Been Kissed (PGi) — 7 p.m. Friday, March 26 only
Forces of Nature (PG) — Fri/Sat/Sun/Mon/Tue 1, 3:30,
7:20, 9:40 pam, Wed / Thur 7:20, 9:40 p.m.

Cruel Intentions (14A) — Fri/Sat/Sun/Mon/Tue 1:20, 3:45,
7:35, 9:45 pam. Wed/Thur 7:35, 9:45 p.m.

The Deep End of the Ocean (PG) — Fri/Sat/Sun/Mon/Tue
12:50, 3:25, 7:30 p.m. Wed/Thur 7:30 p.m.

Esplanade 6 Cinemas

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

The Mod Squad — Fri/Sat/Sun/Wed/Thur 1:20, 3:30, 7,

9:35 Mon/Tue 7, 9:35 p.m.

The Other Sister — Fri/Sat/Sun/Mon/Tue 9:30 p.m.

10 Things T Hate About You — Wed/Thur 2:10, 4:30, 7:30,

9:45 pm.

Baby Geniuses — Fri/Sat/Sun 2, 4:30, 7:30 Mon/Tue 7:30,
Wed/Thur 2 p.m.

True Crime — Fri/Sat/Sun 1:25, 4:15, 7:15, 9:50

Mon/Tue7:15, 9:30 Wed/Thar 4:15, 7:33, 10 p.m.

Analyze This — Fri/Sar/Sun 1:30, 3:50, 7:20, 9:40 Mon/Tue

7:20, 9:40 Wed/Thur 3:50, 7:20, 9:40

The King and I — Wed/Thu 1:45 Fri/Sat/Sun 1:45, 4, 6:55

Mon/Tue 6:55 p.m.

The Rage: Carrie 2 — Fri /Sat/Sun/Mon/Tue 9:20 p.m.

The Matrix — Wed/Thu 1:15, 4:10, 7:05, 9:50 p.m.

Doug’s First Movie — Fri/Sat/Sun 3:15, 3:15, 5:10, 7:10, 9

p.m. Mon/Tue7:10, 9:00 Wed/Thur 1:30, 3:20, 5:10, 7:10, 9

Caprice Park Royal South

West Vancouver (926-6699)

Waking Ned Devine (PG) — 7 p.m. plus Sat/Sun 3:30 p.m.
A Bugs Life (G) — Sat/Sun 1:30 p.m.

Such a Long Journey (PG) — 9 p.m

Life is Beautiful (PG) — 7:10, 9:25 p.m. plus Sat/Sun 2 p.m.
Little Voice (14A) — 7:05 p.m. Sat/Sun 3:35 p.m.

The Prince of Egypt (G) — $1 Sat/Sun 1:40 p.m.

The Corruptor (18A) — 9:16 p.m.

@ Fifth Avenue Cinemas

2110 Burrard at 5th, Vancouver (734-8700)

Children of Heaven (PG) — 7:10, 9:20 p.m. plus Sat/Sun 2,4
p.m. and Tue 4 p.m. (no 7:10 p.m. "show Fri, March 26)
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (18A) — 7:15, 9:40
p.m. plus Sat/Sun 2:10, 4:40 pin. and Tue 4:40 p.m.

Tango (PG) — 6:55, 9: 225 p.m. plus Sat/Sun 1:40, 4:10 p.m.
and Tue 4:10 p.m.

Life is Beautiful (PG) —~ 7:05, 9:35 p.m. plus Sat/Sun 1:50,
4:30 p.m. and Tue 4:30 p.m.

Elizabeth (14A) ~ 7, 9:30 p.m. plus Sat/Sun 1:30, 4:20 p.m.
and Tue 4:20 p.m.

@ Park Theatre

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

Shakespeare in Love (14A) — 7, 9:30 p.m. plus Sat/Sun 1:30,
4 p.m. and Tue 4 p.m.

Varsity Theatre
4375 West 10th at Trimble, Vancouver (222-2235)
Central Station (PG) — 7, 9:15 p.m. plus Sat/Sun 1:45, 4

§ Hollywood Theatre.

3123 West Broadway, Vancouver (515-5864)
Celebrity (14A) — 7:30 p.m.

Playing b by Heart (PG) — 9:35 p.m.

8 Pacific Cinematheque

113] Howe St., Vancouver (684-3456)

Friday, March 26 and Saturday, March 27 .

7:30 p.m. —~ Brakhage (Canada 1998) director Jim Shedden’s
documentary of experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage.

9 p.m. — Antonio Gaudi (Japan 1985) director Hiroshi
Teshigahara’s documentary of the Barcelona architect.

Sunday, March 28 — Jerzy Skolimowki films

7:30 p.m.— Hand’s Up (Poland 1967)

9:05 p.m.— Moonlighting (Great Britain 1982

Polygram Filmed Entertainment

NICK Moran stars in Guy Ritchie’s Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Opening today at Fifth Ave. Cinemas.

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Julie Crawford

Film Reviews

G kx Lock, Stock and
Two Smoking Barrels.
Directed by Guy Ritchie
Opens today at Fifth Ave.
Cinemas.

FIRST-TIME director
Guy Ritchie must be
getting tired of people
comparing his film to

Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction. |

Sure, there are resem-
blances aplenty between Lock,
Stock and Two Smoking
Barrels and Pulp Fiction: both
films take gunplay to a new
level, but Ritchic manages to
keep i it effective while keeping
it offscreen. Both are chock
full of witty dialogue, but if
you can get past the Cockney
accents, Ritchie’s is far fun-
nier because it hits closer to
home.

They are just four ordi-
nary guys, after all. Sure,
Soap (Dexter Fletcher) is the
only one with a real job. Tom
and Bacon (Jason Flemyng
and Jason Statham) manage
to skirt the law most of the
time, and Eddy (Nick Moran)
is the undisputed king of
cards in his end of ton.

The real trouble begins
when Eddy walks away from
a rigged-up card game owing

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chant Hatchet Harry hatf'a
million pounds.

Eddy and his mates have a
week to scrape up the money
before fingers, toes — and
God knows what else — start
coming off.

It’s either that or Eddy’s
dad (Sting as J.D.) will be
forced to hand over his bar to
Harry, and Eddy would
rather lose a finger or two
than take up that offer. Those
appendages will be broken
courtesy of the menacing Big
Chris. (U.K. soccer star
Vinnic Jones. Casting soccer
players secins to be a new
trend in filmmaking: recently
seen was Eric Cantona, who
had a supporting role in
Elizabech)

The foursome? s only hepe
is also their undoing: the
boys eavesdrop on some
neighbouring thugs planning
to rob a marijuana factory,
and figure that with a few
guns and a little luck, they
can intercept the cash and pay
off their debt to Harry.

From there the plot gets

convoluted and reads like a

Three's Company rerun. Eddy

and his mates don’t realize
that the cheap guns they buy
are actually antiques that
Harry is trying to recover at
all costs. The plan to hijack
the drug money entangles
them with three hard-nosed
gangs all trying co figure out
who to shoot, leading to a
blind and somewhat comical
bloodbath.

Less cohesive writing
could have been overshad-
owed by Guy Ritchic’s nervy
camera effects — his back-
ground in vidcos and com-
mercials shows in his use of
slow motion, freeze frame
and variable speed shots.

Lock, Stock and Tivo
Smoking Barrels is nothing if
not slick. Not salesman-of-
the-year slick but ice-cold
martini, no-standing-in-line
slick. If you aspire to the lat-
ter, go see this film.

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@ kx Forces of Nature.

Starring Ben Affleck and
Sandra Bullock. Directed

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Opens today at Park &
Tilford Cineplex.

In theatres now is Forces of
Nature, starring Ben Affleck
and Sandra Bullock. Affleck is
Ben Holmes, a buttoned-
down copywriter trying to
get from New York City to
Savannah for his wedding.

Sarah (Sandra Bullock) is
his polar opposite, and after
the two are thrown together
ina plane crash, Sarah spends
the rest of the time trying to
get Ben to loosen up.

She's got plenty of time.
The two encounter one disas-
ter after another by plane,
train and automobile (yes,
there are definite similarities)
en route to Savannah. As Ben
is increasingly drawn to the
free-spirited Sarah, he won-
ders if his fiancee
( Newsradio’s Maura Tierney)
is really the woman for him.

The moral message here is
a bit ambiguous: Ben seems
to have more than pre-wed-
ding jitters on his min.

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