MacDill Happenings

For an inexpensive night out, stop by the MacDill AFB movie theater this weekend.  Admission is only $4 for 12 years and older and $2 for children 5 to 11 years old.  Refreshments are half the price of refreshments out in town.  You can purchase a medium popcorn and soft drink for $7.50 with free refills on the soft drink. On Friday at 7pm, the movie “Law Abiding Citizen” will be playing. This movie is rated R for strong bloody brutal violence and torture, a scene of rape and pervasive language and has a run time of 109 minutes. Clyde Shelton is an upstanding family man whose wife and daughter are brutally murdered during a home invasion. When the killers are caught, Nick Rice, a hotshot young Philadelphia prosecutor, is assigned to the case. Over his objections, Nick is forced by his boss to offer one of the suspects a light sentence in exchange for testifying against his accomplice. Fast forward ten years. The man who got away with murder is found dead and Clyde Shelton coolly admits his guilt. Then he issues a warning to Nick: Either fix the flawed justice system that failed his family, or key players in the trial will die. On Saturday, there is an afternoon matinee featuring the animated movie “Astro Boy“. This movie is rated PG for some action and peril, and brief mild language and has a run time of 94 minutes. Astro Boy is a young robot from futuristic Metro City. Created by a brilliant scientist named Tenma, and powered by pure positive “blue” energy that gives him such abilities as x-ray vision, inhuman speed, and flight, the wide-eyed android longs to find his true place in the world. He sets out on an epic journey that brings him face to face with an underworld army of robots and some of the strangest creatures ever to walk the Earth, and along the way learns to experience human feelings and emotions. Astro Boy’s remarkable mission of discovery is suddenly cut short, however, when he learns that his friends and family back in Metro City are in grave danger. On Saturday at 7pm will be the horror movie “Saw VI“. This movie is rated R for equences of grisly bloody violence and torture, and language and has a run time of 93 minutes. With the now-deceased Jigsaw still directing events from beyond the grave, Hoffman emerges as the next heir to the killer’s twisted legacy. But as the FBI closes in, Hoffman sets in motion a game that is designed to reveal Jigsaw’s grand scheme.