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MILLENNIUM THEATRE 1156 Hargrave, 472-6932. Located withinthe Millennium Youth Entertainment Complex. Adults, $6; children, $4.Rise of the Guardians: Fri-Sat, 11:00am, 1:15, 4:00, 6:30, 8:45pm;Wed-Thu (1/24), 10:30am, 12:45, 3:00, 5:30pmTINSELTOWN NORTH N. I-35 & FM 1825, 512/989-8535. Cost for3-D and XD shows is regular ticket price plus a premium.Broken City (digital): Fri, 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00; Sat-Mon, 10:40am, 1:30,4:20, 7:10, 10:00pm; Tue-Thu (1/24), 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away (3-D): Fri, 12:20pm; Sat-Mon, 9:45am;Tue-Thu (1/24), 12:20pmDjango Unchained (digital): Fri, 3:00, 6:45, 10:30; Sat-Mon, 11:15am, 3:00,6:45, 10:30pm; Tue-Thu (1/24), 3:00, 6:45, 10:30Gangster Squad (digital): Fri, 2:10, 4:00, 5:00, 7:50, 9:20, 10:40; Sat, 11:20am,2:10, 4:00, 5:00, 7:50, 9:20, 10:40pm; Sun-Mon, 10:30am, 11:20, 2:10,4:00, 5:00, 7:50, 9:20, 10:40pm; Tue, 2:10, 4:00, 5:00, 7:50, 9:20, 10:40;Wed, 2:10, 5:00, 7:50, 10:40; Thu (1/24), 2:10, 4:00, 5:00, 7:50, 10:40A Haunted House (digital): Fri, 1:40, 3:10, 5:35, 6:55, 8:00, 10:25; Sat, 12:45,3:10, 5:35, 6:55, 8:00, 10:25; Sun-Mon, 12:45, 1:40, 3:10, 5:35, 6:55, 8:00,10:25; Tue, 1:40, 3:10, 5:35, 6:55, 8:00, 10:25; Wed-Thu (1/24), 1:40, 3:10,5:35, 8:00, 10:25The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (digital): 2:30, 10:15The Impossible (digital): Fri, 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20; Sat-Mon, 10:50am, 1:50,4:40, 7:30, 10:20pm; Tue-Thu (1/24), 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20Jack Reacher (digital): Fri, 1:00, 4:10, 7:25, 10:45; Sat-Mon, 9:50am, 1:00,4:10, 7:25, 10:45pm; Tue-Thu (1/24), 1:00, 4:10, 7:25, 10:45The Last Stand (digital): Fri, 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05; Sat-Mon, 11:00am, 1:45,4:30, 7:20, 10:05pm; Tue-Thu (1/24), 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05Les Misérables (digital): 12:30, 4:25, 8:10Opera: Les Troyens: Wed, 6:30pmLife of Pi (3-D): Fri, 3:55, 10:10; Sat-Mon, 9:50am, 3:55, 10:10pm;Tue-Wed, 3:55, 10:10; Thu (1/24), 3:55pmLife of Pi (digital): 12:50, 7:00Lincoln (digital): noon, 3:30, 7:05, 10:40Mama (digital): Fri, 12:40, 2:15, 3:20, 4:55, 6:00, 7:35, 8:40, 10:15;Sat-Mon, 10:00am, 11:35, 12:40, 2:15, 3:20, 4:55, 6:00, 7:35, 8:40,10:15pm; Tue-Thu (1/24), 12:40, 2:15, 3:20, 4:55, 6:00, 7:35, 8:40, 10:15NCM Fathom: Manos: The Hands of Fate: Thu (1/24), 7:30pmOpera: Maria Stuarda: Sat, 11:55amMonsters, Inc. (3-D): Fri, 2:55, 5:30; Sat-Mon, 12:20, 2:55, 5:30;Tue-Thu (1/24), 2:55, 5:30Monsters, Inc. (digital): Fri, 12:45pm; Sat-Mon, 10:10am; Tue-Thu (1/24), 12:45pmParental Guidance (digital): 8:05, 10:45Silver Linings Playbook (digital): Fri, 1:20, 4:15, 7:15, 10:10;Sat-Mon, 10:25am, 1:20, 4:15, 7:15, 10:10pm; Tue-Wed, 1:20, 4:15, 7:15,10:10; Thu (1/24), 1:20, 4:15, 7:15Texas Chainsaw (3-D): Fri, 2:45, 7:45; Sat-Mon, 9:45am, 2:45, 7:45pm;Tue-Thu (1/24), 2:45, 7:45Texas Chainsaw (digital): 12:15, 5:15, 10:15Classics: To Catch a Thief: Wed, 2:00, 7:00Wreck-It Ralph (digital): Fri, 1:05, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30; Sat-Mon, 10:15am, 1:05,3:50, 6:40, 9:30pm; Tue-Wed, 1:05, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30; Thu (1/24), 1:05,3:50, 6:40Zero Dark Thirty (digital): Fri, 1:35, 5:10, 8:45; Sat-Mon, 10:00am, 1:35, 5:10,8:45pm; Tue-Thu (1/24), 1:35, 5:10, 8:45Zero Dark Thirty (XD): Fri-Tue, 11:50am, 3:25, 7:00, 10:35pm; Wed, 10:35pm;Thu (1/24), 2:55, 6:30TINSELTOWN SOUTH S. I-35 & Stassney, 326-3800. $10 “specialevent” ticket prices apply to Indian films.Argo (digital): Fri, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20; Sat-Mon, 12:50, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20;Tue-Thu (1/24), 3:40, 6:30, 9:20Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away (3-D): Fri, 5:45pm; Sat-Mon, 12:05, 2:55, 5:45;Tue-Thu (1/24), 5:45pmCirque du Soleil: Worlds Away (digital): Fri-Tue, 4:45pm; Thu (1/24), 4:45pmDjango Unchained (digital): Fri, 6:10, 9:55; Sat-Mon, 2:30, 6:10, 9:55;Tue-Thu (1/24), 6:10, 9:55Gangster Squad (digital): Fri, 4:20, 7:10, 8:35, 10:15; Sat-Mon, 1:30, 4:20,7:10, 8:35, 10:15; Tue-Thu (1/24), 4:20, 7:10, 8:35, 10:15The Impossible (digital): Fri, 4:35, 7:20, 10:05; Sat-Mon, 1:45, 4:35, 7:20,10:05; Tue-Thu (1/24), 4:35, 7:20, 10:05The Last Stand (digital): Fri, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20; Sat-Mon, 11:40am, 2:20, 5:00,7:40, 10:20pm; Tue-Thu (1/24), 5:00, 7:40, 10:20Mama (digital): Fri, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50; Sat-Mon, 11:45am, 2:10, 4:40, 7:15,9:50pm; Tue-Thu (1/24), 4:40, 7:15, 9:50Matru ki Bijlee ka Mandola (digital): Fri, 3:20, 6:40, 10:00; Sat-Mon, 11:55am,3:20, 6:40, 10:00pm; Tue-Thu (1/24), 3:20, 6:40, 10:00Mumbai Mirror (digital): Fri, 3:15, 6:25, 9:45; Sat-Mon, noon, 3:15, 6:25, 9:45;Tue-Thu (1/24), 3:15, 6:25, 9:45Naayak (digital): Fri, 6:00, 9:30; Sat-Mon, 2:30, 6:00, 9:30;Tue-Thu (1/24), 4:30, 8:30Parental Guidance (digital): Fri, 3:30, 6:05, 8:55; Sat-Mon, 12:45, 3:30, 6:05,8:55; Tue-Thu (1/24), 3:30, 6:05, 8:55Rise of the Guardians (3-D): Fri, 7:35pm; Sat-Mon, 2:15, 7:35;Tue-Thu (1/24), 7:35pmRise of the Guardians (digital): Fri, 6:15pm; Sat-Mon, 12:55, 6:15; Tue-Thu(1/24), 6:15pmSeethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu: Fri, 3:00, 6:35, 10:10; Sat-Mon, 11:25am,3:00, 6:35, 10:10pm; Tue-Thu (1/24), 3:00, 6:35, 10:10Classics: To Catch a Thief: Wed, 2:00, 7:00The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (digital): Fri, 7:30, 10:20;Sat-Mon, 1:50, 7:30, 10:20; Tue, 7:30, 10:20; Wed, 10:20pm;Thu (1/24), 7:30, 10:20Wreck-It Ralph (3-D): Fri, 4:55, 10:25; Sat-Mon, 11:30am, 4:55, 10:25pm;Tue-Thu (1/24), 4:55, 10:25Wreck-It Ralph (digital): 3:35, 9:00Zero Dark Thirty (digital): Fri, 3:05, 4:50, 6:35, 8:20, 10:00; Sat-Mon, 11:35am, 1:30,3:05, 4:50, 6:35, 8:20, 10:00pm; Tue-Thu (1/24), 3:05, 4:50, 6:35, 8:20, 10:00VIOLET CROWN CINEMA 434 W. Second, 495-9600.Four-hour parking validation in attached garage with ticket purchase.Reserved seating; bar and cafe on-site.The Impossible: 11:00am, 1:40, 5:10, 10:15pm*Les Misérables: 10:50am, 2:50, 6:30, 9:40pm*Silver Linings Playbook: 11:10am, 1:20, 4:00, 7:30, 10:00pm*Zero Dark Thirty: 11:45am, 2:00, 3:50, 6:00, 7:00, 9:10pmWESTGATE 11 S. Lamar & Ben White, 899-2717. Discounts dailybefore 6pm. Cost for 3-D shows is regular ticket price plus a$3.50 premium.Broken City: Fri, 11:50am, 2:25, 5:00, 7:45, 10:20pm; Sat-Mon, 10:00am,11:50, 2:25, 5:00, 7:45, 10:20pm; Tue-Thu (1/24), 11:50am, 2:25, 5:00, 7:45,10:20pm*Django Unchained: Fri-Mon, 11:40am, 3:10, 6:40, 10:10pm;Tue-Thu (1/24), 11:50am, 3:15, 6:40, 10:10pmGangster Squad: Fri, noon, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20; Sat-Mon, 12:35, 3:15, 5:45,8:15, 10:45; Tue-Thu (1/24), 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10A Haunted House: Fri-Mon, 1:20, 3:30, 5:40, 7:50, 10:35; Tue-Wed, 12:45, 3:00,5:15, 7:30, 9:40; Thu (1/24), 12:45, 3:00, 5:15, 7:30*The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey: Fri-Mon, 12:35, 4:05; Tue-Thu (1/24), noon, 3:30The Last Stand: Fri, 11:30am, 2:05, 4:40, 7:20, 9:55pm; Sat-Mon, 10:00am, 11:30,2:05, 4:40, 7:20, 9:55pm; Tue-Thu (1/24), 11:40am, 2:15, 4:45, 7:20, 9:55pm*Les Misérables: Fri, 11:30am, 2:50, 6:30, 9:50pm; Sat-Mon, 10:00am, 11:30,2:50, 6:30, 9:50pm; Tue-Thu (1/24), 11:40am, 3:00, 6:30, 9:50pm*Life of Pi (3-D): Fri-Mon, 7:35, 10:25; Tue-Wed, 7:00, 9:50; Thu (1/24), 7:00pmMama: Fri, 12:40, 3:05, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30; Sat-Mon, 10:15am, 12:40, 3:05,5:30, 8:00, 10:30pm; Tue-Wed, 12:40, 3:05, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30;Thu (1/24), 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30Silver Linings Playbook: Fri, 11:20am, 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15pm;Sat-Mon, 10:00am, 11:20, 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15pm;Tue-Thu (1/24), 11:30am, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:15pmThis Is 40: Fri-Mon, 1:15, 4:10, 7:05, 10:05; Tue-Wed, 12:30, 4:00, 7:05, 10:05;Thu (1/24), 12:30, 4:00, 7:05Zero Dark Thirty: Fri, 12:40, 4:00, 7:20, 10:40; Sat-Mon, 10:00am, 12:40, 4:00,7:20, 10:40pm; Tue-Thu (1/24), noon, 3:30, 6:55, 10:15MuMBai MirrorD: Ankush Bhatt; with Prakash Raj, Sachiin Joshi, VimalaRaman, Mahesh Manjrekar, Aditya Pancholi, Gihana Khan.(NR, 140 min., subtitled)Not reviewed at press time. In thisBollywood film, powerful and corrupt clubowners have dubious connections with theMumbai police. – Marjorie BaumgartenTinseltown SouthseethaMMa VakitLosiriMaLLe ChettuD: Srikanth Addala; with Venkatesh, Mahesh Babu, Anjali,Samantha, Prakash Raj, Jayasudha. (NR, 159 min., subtitled)Not reviewed at press time. SuperstarsMahesh Babu and Venkatesh appear togetherin something of a first for Telugu film,which helped turn this movie about brotherlyrivalry into a blockbuster during its openingweekend.– Marjorie BaumgartenTinseltown Southfirst runs*Full-length reviews available online ataustinchronicle.com. Dates at end of reviewsindicate original publication date.anna kareninaD: Joe Wright; with Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Aaron Taylor-Johnson,Domhnall Gleeson, Matthew Macfadyen, Kelly Macdonald, AliciaVikander, Ruth Wilson, Olivia Williams. (R, 129 min.)In this bold but empty imagining of Anna Karenina,director Joe Wright sets the action mostly within thewalls of a theatre: This world is, quite literally, all astage. There is the sedate wife and mother Anna(Knightley), limply married to the fly-right bureaucratKarenin (Law) and embarking for Moscow tosave her brother’s marriage to poor, put-upon Dolly(Macdonald). And there is the first acquaintance ofdoomed Anna and Count Vronsky (Taylor-Johnson),who tumble into an erotic liaison that will both igniteand ruin her. There is so much to compact here,and – forgive the schoolmarm aside – if you haven’tyet enjoyed the source novel, then you should stopreading this right now and start reading that, becauseit truly is a transformative thing. Sadly, the complexityof Tolstoy’s vision is only just skimmed here; thisAnna Karenina provides no lasting illumination, onlythe fast-burn spitzing of bang snaps. (11/30/2012)HHHn– Kimberley JonesArborJ argoD: Ben Affleck; with Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin, JohnGoodman, Victor Garber, Tate Donovan, Clea DuVall, Scoot McNairy,Rory Cochrane, Christopher Denham, Kerry Bishé, Kyle Chandler,Chris Messina, Zeljko Ivanek, Richard Kind. (R, 120 min.)Ben Affleck has reinvented himself as one ofHollywood’s top-notch directors, and this third featurefully proves that the filmmaker knows what he isdoing. Argo is a terrifically entertaining thriller that’sbased on a true-life incident. Latino CIA operativeTony Mendez (Affleck) has been called in to helpsix American embassy employees who managed toescape when their compound in Iran was taken overby Islamic fundamentalists on Nov. 4, 1979. As theCIA contemplates extraction, Mendez hatches a crazyplan: creating the cover of a location-scouting expeditionfor a science fiction movie called Argo. As wefollow every step of the mission, Affleck’s deft craftsmanshipand casting instincts are on full display. Notallowing well enough to be, however, is the multipleprongedcoda, which slackens Argo’s taut pace to acrawl. But I can hear the filmmakers saying, in thecadence of the film’s running joke, “Arrhh, go fuckyourself.” (10/12/2012)HHHHnArbor, iPic, Tinseltown South– Marjorie BaumgartenCirque du soLeiL:worLds awayD: Andrew Adamson; with Erica Linz, Igor Zaripov. (PG, 91 min.)To call Cirque du Soleil mere circus is to undersellthe astonishing breadth and vision of the Canadiantroupe-turned-entertainment empire. And to callCirque du Soleil: Worlds Away a movie – while techfilmlistingsnically accurate – is a wet willy to all those othermovies out there toiling away at narrative logic,dramatic stakes, and identifiable characters. This3-D film offers up a kind of pupu platter of sevenCirque du Soleil shows, strung together with the verythin connective tissue of an original story, pennedby writer/director Andrew Adamson. In the framingstory, a circusgoer (Linz) falls in love with an aerialist(Zaripov) and chases him into a beautifully renderedbut bizarro land of dizzying, gosh-wow acrobatics andthrilling design. Unfortunately, the leads are dull asdishwater, and, minute-to-minute, the damn thingdoesn’t make any sense. Cirque du Soleil: WorldsAway is fine to look at, but good luck feeling anything.(12/28/2012)HHn– Kimberley JonesTinseltown North, Tinseltown Souththe CoLLeCtionD: Marcus Dunstan; with Josh Stewart, Emma Fitzpatrick, RandallArcher, Christopher McDonald, Lee Tergesen, Shannon Kane,Erin Way. (R, 94 min.)The follow-up to 2009’s torture-grunge picture TheCollector, The Collection’s advertising touts directorMarcus Dunstan and his co-screenwriter PatrickMelton as the writers of Saws IV through VII. (Makeof that what you will.) An exercise in pure sadism,The Collection moves at a clip that leaps over plotholes in its race to elicit fright. No weighty psychologyor physical logic freights this enterprise. TheCollector (Archer) remains a mysterious hulk in ablack mask who lives to pluck strangers from calamitiesand then torture them with a vast array of RubeGoldberg-styled mechanical contraptions. Pointshave to be given for allowing this film’s central victimElena (Fitzpatrick) to be a woman who rises to heroicproportions. The cinematography by Sam McCurdyis emotively rich, although some of the deaths happentoo quickly to fully register. And sidesteppedsadism is a cardinal sin in this sort of exercise.(12/07/2012)HMovies 8Now PlayingZERO DARK THIRTYSILVER LININGS PLAYBOOKOpening Friday, Jan. 25AMOUR– Marjorie BaumgartenLES MISÉRABLESTHE IMPOSSIBLE“Has earned so much praisesince it won at Cannes that somemay fear it’s overhyped. It is not.All great films have imagination;this one also has the sense ofexperience.”NEW YORK POSTComing Soon2013 ACADEMY AWARDNOMINATED SHORTSTheatrical release of the nominatedLive Action and AnimatedShorts.VioletCrownCinema.com434 W. 2nd Street | 512-495-9600DINNER » DRINKS » MOVIES » EVENTSa u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m JANUARY 18, 2013 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 59