I’m frightened at the large number of overweight children (and adults) I see around town. And not surprisingly the American Medical Association declared obesity a disease in June 2013.
It’s time to see why we are becoming a nation of such large people. Opening on May 23 at the Loft Cinema, 3233 E. Speedway, co-presented by Community Gardens of Tucson.
Post-film Q&A with Fed Up associate producer (and former Tucsonan) Mary Beth Callie on opening night, Friday, May 23 at 7:30pm!
Starts Friday, May 9 at the Loft Theater, 3233 E. Speedway
Post-film discussion on Friday, May 9 at 7:00pm with Daisy M. Jenkins, executive vice president and Chief Human Resources Officer for Carondelet Health Network, and Barbara Atwood, Mary Anne Richey Professor of Law Emerita and Director of the Family and Juvenile Law Certificate Program at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law.
Regular admission prices.
Saturday, May 3 at 10:00am
Free Admission, Loft Cinema, 3233 E. Speedway Blvd.
Opening at the Loft Cinema, 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. on Friday, April 18.
In the romantic drama The Lunchbox, middle-class housewife Ila (Nimrat Kaur) is trying once again to add some spice to her marriage, this time through her cooking. She desperately hopes that a new recipe will finally arouse some kind of reaction from her neglectful husband. She prepares a special lunchbox to be delivered to him at work, but, unbeknownst to her, it is mistakenly delivered to another office worker, Saajan (Irrfan Khan, Life of Pi), a lonely man on the verge of retirement.
The Loft is celebrating William Shakespeare’s 450th birthday with a month of classic Shakespeare adaptations from some of the world’s greatest filmmakers! All through April, see the Masters of Cinema take on the Master of the English Theatre in thrilling, dramatic and humorous films that bring the magic of The Bard to the big screen!
Trivia question: what day in April was Shakespeare born? Answer at end of this post.