Entertainment

“Journey 2: The Mysterious Island” is the Rock’s berry-bouncing-pecks-tacular!

If this movie could be a fruit, it would be a kiwi: graspable, lovably fuzzy, verdant and tangy. The light-headed flick effervesces with giggles and has aspirations no loftier than fun.

INVERNESS — Last September, Sherwood Pictures released its fourth inspirational Christian film, “Courageous,” to more than 1,100 theaters throughout the United States and Canada. By the end of its run, the film on fatherhood had landed in the box office top 10 for four weeks.

Cornerstone Baptist Church will show the film at 6:30 p.m. Friday in its auditorium to those who missed it the first time — or would like to see it again — with no admission charge.

Greg Kell, senior pastor at Cornerstone, hopes many people will attend.

Sorry to disrespect Marvel and DC adaptations, but this out-of-the-blue super tale “Chronicle” nails the angst movies like “X-Men” clamor for.

Unprompted, three high school kids are left to use their powers as they wish. Not caught up with a government conspiracy, love-struck protector sidetracks or baddies (which are a riot), “Chronicle” invests in characters beyond establishing a “serious” mood. Still fun, the friendships give way to smirks and telekinetic shenanigans. “Chronicle” is worthy of its emotion.

Christy Lemire
AP Movie Critic

It owes a great debt to the found-footage concept behind “The Blair Witch Project,” has some of the aesthetic and tonal touches of “Cloverfield” and probes the same sorts of philosophical notions about the burden of power that serve as the basis for the “X-Men” series.

And yet, “Chronicle” still has enough energy and ingenuity to serve as thrilling entertainment all its own.