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All movies start at 2 p.m. unless otherwise noted.

February 2012 Movies

02/06/2012: Moneyball, Rated PG-13, 113 minutes: The Oakland A's general manager defies conventional wisdom and outsmarts his competition when forced to reinvent his team with bargain players. Brad Pitt stars.

02/13/2012: Dolphin Tale, Rated PG, 119 minutes: Based on true events, this family film is about Winter, a young dolphin who lost her tail in a crab trap, and Sawyer, the introverted 11-year-old boy who befriends her. Morgan Freeman stars.

02/20/2012: Contagion, Rated PG-13, 105 minutes: Contagion follows the rapid progress of a lethal airborne virus that kills within days. Matt Damon and Kate Winslet star.

02/27/2012:Ides of March, Rated R, 101 minutes: This film takes place during the frantic last days before a heavily contested Ohio presidential primary, when an up-and-coming campaign press secretary finds himself involved in a political scandal that threatens to upend his candidate’s shot at the presidency. Based on the play by Beau Willimon. George Clooney stars.

Sunday Cinema--Auditorium I

02/12/2012: Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Rated G, 90 minutes: A breathtaking new documentary from the incomparable Werner Herzog, follows an exclusive expedition into the nearly inaccessible Chauvet Cave in France, home to the most ancient visual art known to have been created by man.

02/26/2012: Picture Bride, Rated PG-13, 95 minutes: Set in 1918, seventeen-year-old Riyo is sent from Japan to Hawaii to be a mail-order bride after exchanging photographs with a sugar cane worker. But as luck would have it, Riyo is shocked to find that her future husband appeared much younger in his portrait and is at least 25 years her senior. In Japanese with English subtitles.

Memorable Thursday Movies--Auditorium I at 4:45 p.m.

02/16/2012: It Happened One Night, Unrated 105 minutes: An unhappy heiress (Claudette Colbert) falls for a news reporter (Clark Gable) she meets on a bus trip across America.

March 2012 Movies

03/05/2012: Abduction, Rated PG-13, 106 minutes: A young man is unwittingly thrust into a deadly world of covert espionage. Taylor Lautner and Alfred Molina star.

03/12/2012: Courageous, Rated PG-13, 129 minutes: Four men, one calling: To serve and protect. When tragedy hits home, these men are left wrestling with their hopes, their fears, their faith, and their fathering.

03/19/2012: J. Edgar, Rated R, 137 minutes: As the face of law enforcement in America for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career and his life. Leonardo DiCaprio stars.

03/26/2012: Kolya, Rated PG-13, 112 minutes: Louka, a down-on-his-luck concert musician, agrees to a bogus marriage with a Russian woman for money. When she takes off for Germany, leaving her five-year-old son behind with her new husband, it is now up to Louka, as his legal father, to look after him. The frightened boy speaks only Czech, but the pair learns to communicate with and finally love each other. In Czech with English subtitles.

03/25/2012: Project Nim, Rated PG-13, 93 minutes: Nim is the chimpanzee who in the 1970s became the focus of a landmark experiment which aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child. Following Nim's extraordinary journey through human society.

Memorable Movies (All Thursday Films Start at 4:45 p.m. in Auditorium 1)

03/15/2012: Imitation of Life, Not Rated, 106 minutes: A black maid (Louise Beavers) and a white widow (Claudette Colbert) team up to manufacture pancake batter. The pair’s common bond is self-manufactured suffering at the hands of their daughters.