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jfisher@timesrepublican.com T-R PHOTOS BY JOE FISHER — Plaza 9 employee Alexander Pruitt wipes down the concession counter to help mitigate COVID-19 spread. The theater employees also wipe down seats between showings and spray the entire auditoriums with disinfectant at the end of the day. Big budget releases were moved and the only disaster movie to create a buzz this year was real life but the show must go on for Plaza 9 Theatres. The Fridley Theatres location, 2500 S. Center Street, will have five films playing on Christmas Day, hoping to capture some magic with holiday movie goers. Chri...

The mall is the setting for an early heist scene, where Wonder Woman – whose day job is now at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in nearby Washington, D.C. – swings up and around three levels to take down a crew of jewelry-store robbers (whose plunder is no ordinary gem) and save a little girl. “It’s just such a perfect location,” director Patty Jenkins says of Landmark, built in 1965 and operational until 2017. “And the fact that it was empty and we wouldn't be negotiating shutting down for hours, etc., we were blown away that we found it.” Walking into the gro...

Print Everyone’s favorite humanity-saving, golden lasso-wielding, Amazonian warrior goddess is back — as are Chris Pine and the ’80s — in Warner Bros.’ “Wonder Woman 1984.” Ranging from lukewarm to glowing, reviews are in for the highly anticipated sequel starring Gal Gadot and directed by Patty Jenkins, who also helmed 2017’s groundbreaking superheroine blockbuster. After multiple delays prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the DC action flick is finally set to debut in select theaters and on HBO Max Dec. 25. “This extravagant, genially overstuffed sequel may be a product of...

At the end of a year with a dearth of the usual movie superheroes, Wonder Woman flies in with her Lasso of Truth just in time. “Wonder Woman 1984” (★★★ out of four; rated PG-13; in theaters and streaming on HBO Max Dec. 25) is director/co-writer Patty Jenkins’ much lighter, somewhat campy follow up to her World War I-set 2017 hit film, though a lot has to do with the new retro time frame. While not quite up to par with its predecessor, the Reagan-era sequel returns Gal Gadot as the Amazon princess with the bulletproof bracelets, introduces a couple of worthy foes, and is a pretty ...

Game Night filmmakers, John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, who also wrote the screenplay (based on a draft by Michael Gilion). Right now, there's no word on what character Pine is playing, but we expect he is just the first of many A-list additions to the movie's cast. "We never wanted to spoof the genre of fantasy or take the piss out of it," Daley said over the spring. "But we did want to find another way into it that we hadn't necessarily seen before. Just the format of  Dungeons & Dragons is so interesting and fun and all about critical thinking and thinking on your feet and...