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 beginning Thanksgiving week is “Penguins of Madagascar,” a spin-off of the Madagascar film series, and “Horrible Bosses 2,” an American comedy film directed by Sean Anders.
Fort Hays State University students can purchase tickets for $4 at the student service desk in the Memorial Union.
HORRIBLE BOSSES 2 (108 min) R
Dale, Kurt and Nick decide to start their own business but things don’t go as planned because of a slick investor, prompting the trio to pull off a harebrained and misguided kidnapping scheme.
| 11:10 AM | 1:45 PM | 4:20 PM | 7:05 PM | 9:40 PM |
Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private join forces with undercover organization The North Wind to stop the villainous Dr. Octavius Brine from destroying the world as we know it.
2D: | 11:15 AM | 1:35 PM | 2:35 PM | 3:50 PM | 6:50 PM | 9:10 PM |
3D: | 12:15 PM | 4:50 PM | 7:50 PM |
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY (PART 1) (123 min) PG13
The story continues to follow Katniss Everdeen who, after escaping the Third Quarter Quell, becomes a reluctant hero and symbol of hope for the nation of Panem. Katniss finds herself in District 13 after she literally shatters the Games forever. Under the leadership of President Coin and the advice of her trusted friends, Katniss spreads her wings as she fights to save Peeta and a nation moved by her courage.
| 11:00 AM | 12:00 PM | 2:00 PM | 5:00 PM | 7:00 PM | 8:00 PM | 10:00 PM |
DUMB AND DUMBER TO (109 min) PG
It’s been 20 years and Harry Dunn has found something out … he has a daughter. Lloyd Christmas his equally dim witted friend takes one look at a picture of her and develops a crush. Lloyd insists the two track her down. What ensues when Harry finally agrees is a bizarre encounter with an old lady and more hilarity in the form of their sheer stupidity.
| 10:55 AM | 1:30 PM | 4:10 PM | 7:25 PM | 10:05 PM |
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.
| 11:05 AM | 4:05 PM | 9:05 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 |
3D: | 10:10 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.
| 11:05 AM | 1:45 PM | 4:25 PM | 7:05 PM | 9:45 PM |
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.
| 5:10 PM | 7:15PM |
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.
| 11:35AM | 2:05PM | 4:20PM