It’s almost the weekend and it’s time for another weekend movie update. Hays 8 Starplex has something for any movie goer.
New in theaters this week is “Big Hero 6,” a film about inflatable robot Baymax, and “Intersteller,” a film on human space travel.
Fort Hays State University students can purchase tickets for $4 at the student service desk in the Memorial Union.
INTERSTELLAR (109 min) PG
In the near future, the earth is no longer able to sustain humanity. Crops are routinely ravaged by blight, dust storms scour the land, and mankind has regressed to a stateless, agrarian society. Cooper, a former NASA test pilot and engineer turned farmer lives with his family, including his father-in-law, son Tom, and ten year-old daughter Murphy—better known as “Murph”—who believes their house is haunted by a ghost that is trying to communicate to her.
| 11:10 AM | 12:00 PM | 3:00 PM | 4:00 PM | 7:00 PM | 8:00 PM |
BIG HERO 6 (109 min) PG
A computer-animated superhero-comedy film inspired by the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name. Set in a fictional futuristic hybrid metropolis called San Fransokyo, a young robotics prodigy named Hiro Hamada and his robot Baymax uncover a criminal plot and pull together a team of inexperienced crime-fighters.
2D: | 10:50 AM | 1:40 PM | 4:30 PM | 7:20 PM | 10:10 PM |
3D: | 11:30 AM | 2:20 PM | 9:20 PM |
ST. VINCENT (103 min) PG13
Vincent, a drunken, gambling war veteran retiree, gets recruited by his new single-mom neighbor Maggie to watch over her small grown 12-year-old son Oliver. Vincent’s ideas of after-school activities involve racetracks and strip clubs, but eventually the mismatched pair begin to help each other grow up.
| 10:55AM | 1:35PM | 4:30PM | 7:15PM | 10:05PM |
NIGHTCRAWLER (117 min) R
When Lou Bloom, a driven man desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding him in his effort is Nina, a TV-news veteran.
| 10:55AM | 1:35PM | 4:30PM | 7:15PM | 10:05PM |
ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE VERY BAD DAY (81 min) PG
Alexander’s day begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by more calamities. Though he finds little sympathy from his family and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him, his mom, dad, brother, and sister all find themselves living through their own terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
| 11:25AM | 1:30PM | 4:15PM | 7:35PM | 9:35PM | 9:40PM |
BEST OF ME (118 min) PG13
A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.
| 11:05AM | 1:50PM | 4:35PM | 7:20PM | 10:10PM |
FURY (129 min) R
April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Out-numbered, out-gunned, and with a rookie soldier thrust into their platoon, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.
| 1:00PM | 4:00PM | 7:00PM | 10:00PM |
OUIJA (89 min) PG13
A group of friends must confront their most terrifying fears when they awaken the dark powers of an ancient spirit board.
| 11:20AM | 1:40PM | 4:05PM | 7:30PM | 9:50PM|
I went and saw “Interstellar” last night. I thought it was an amazing movie, inspiring and along the lines of “2001” but a lot easier to understand. Go see it.