BOX OFFICE: ‘Marley and Me’ Tops!

SEBRING, December 29, 2008 – Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, and a dog pushed Marley and Me to the top of the box office charts for the weekend of Dec. 26-28.
And they did so amid some of the fiercest competition for a Christmas day opener. Marley and Me had to fend off big names Tom Cruise [...]

Christmas Comes to the Fairmount Cinema

AMID THE SHADOWS Col. Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise) plots the demise of Adolf Hitler and the return of Germany to righteousness and honor in Valkyrie, which opens Christmas at the Fairmount Cinema Square.
PHOTO COURTESY OF UNITED ARTISTS
SEBRING, December 24, 2008 – When you’re done unwrapping your gifts and playing with them Christmas [...]

Remant to Play at Brewster’s!

SEBRING, December 17, 2008 – The Christian and rock band Remnant plays a concert at Brewster’s Coffee House in Sebring Thursday from 6 to 9 p.m.
Though eclectic, Remnant likes to get down in boogie behind the vocals and lead guitar of Tony Collier, the deep bass of Terry Johnson, and Charlie Cheeks’s frenetic drums. J. [...]

BOX OFFICE: Weekend Gives Us ‘The Day the Earth Got Bored”

SEBRING, December 17, 2008 – Hollywood continues to falter and fail. But if you were looking to commit suicide the weekend of Dec. 12-14, you could have subjected yourself to the customer service at the Carmike or just watched The Day The Earth Stood Still and done yourself in with acute boredom and pseudo-apocalyptic special [...]

NEW MOVIES FRIDAY: A Weekend of Reinvention

Sebring, December 12, 2008 – The beast (Hollywood – or should we call it false prophet?) continues to re-invent ideals, events, and movies in accord with its dogma.
The remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still opens. It stars Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connelly. The simple eerieness and alienness and vulnerability of the original has [...]

National Box Office Weak

SEBRING, December 12, 2008 – The box office revealed no strong films, be they holiday or other, as the weekend of Dec. 5-7, 2008 proved one of the weakest on record.
Four Christmases held onto to the top spot. It fell only 46%, a Top Ten best, and earned $16.8 million. Twilight was the only other [...]

BOX OFFICE: Fans Give ‘Four Christmases’ Gift of No. 1

THE WARMTH OF CHRISTMAS!: Baby leaves a warm lump in his diaper while on the lap of Kate Kingsberry (Reese Witherspoon) and in nasal detection range of Brad McVie (Vince Vaughn) in the comedy Four Christmases, playing exclusively at the Fairmount Cinema Square.
PHOTO COURTESY OF WARNER BROS.
SEBRING, December 2, 2008 – Moviegoers made Four Christmases [...]