July 5-11: New! Bill Murray, Adam Driver in The Dead Don't Die; plus Juliette Binoche & $5 Family matinees

The Lord of the Rings continues to be one of the most-read, most beloved book series of all time, and with good reason. The level of thought and detail imbued in its pages gives it an air of authenticity that can make it easy to forget that someone actually had to make it all up. But what drove the man who devoted his life to the creation of this fictional world?

“Ken Russell makes movies the way others might design a ride through a funhouse. He deals in headlong but harmless plunges from giddy heights, abrupt changes of pace, joke turns, anachronistic visual effects, ghouls that pop out of the dark, all accompanied by the sound of a force to loosen one's most firmly rooted back teeth.

July 8 - 12. Weekday Family Matinees. All seats $5. Tickets at the door. Detective Pikachu (voice of Ryan Reynolds) wakes up in the middle of nowhere with amnesia and the only clue he has to his past is a name and address written inside his cap.

“Man's best friend receives a cinematic pat on the head in Buddy, the latest documentary by veteran Peru-born Dutch director Heddy Honigmann. Observing how six service dogs provide crucial daily help and companionship for their grateful owners, the ruminative, accessible affair proves as soothing to the viewer as the faithful pets are to their humans.