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ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS—Computer animation brings the helium-voiced singing rodents of the 1960s to the big screen, in the company of Jason Lee, David Cross, Cameron Richardson and Jane Lynch. Directed by Tim Hill (Garfield 2). Flix, Market Arcade, McKinley, Regal Elmwood, Regal Hollywood

FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO—Documentary examining the use of the Bible as a tool by fundamentalists to condemn homosexuals. Directed by Daniel G. Karslake. Reviewed this issue. Eastern Hills

I AM LEGEND—New film version of the classic story about the last man on Earth (Will Smith), a scientist immune to the plague that has turned everyone else into vampires. Co-starring Alice Braga, Charlie Tahan and Salli Richardson. Directed by Francis Lawrence (Constantine). Reviewed this issue. Flix, Market Arcade, Regal Elmwood, Regal Hollywood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit

THE PERFECT HOLIDAY— Morris Chestnut as a department store Santa recruited by a little girl to find a new husband for her divorced mother (Gabrielle Union). With Faizon Love and Charles Q. Murphy. Directed by Lance Rivera (The Cookout). Market Arcade, Regal Elmwood, Regal Hollywood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit

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AWAY FROM HER—Actress Sarah Polley directed this adaptation of an Alice Munro story about a man and a woman dealing with the institutionalization of their ageing mates. Starring Julie Christie, Michael Murphy, Gordon Pinsent and Olympia Dukakis. Producer Daniel Iron will be present for a post-screening discussion both days. Sat-Sun 4pm. Aurora Theater, 673 Main St, East Aurora (652–1660)

A CHRISTMAS CAROL (England, 1951)—Generally considered the best film version of the classic Charles Dickens story, with Alistair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge. Look for Patrick MacNee, The Avengers’ John Steed, as the young Jacob Marley. Also starring Kathleen Harrison, Mervyn Johns, Hermione Baddeley, Michael Hordern, Miles Malleson, Ernest Thesiger, and Hattie Jacques. Fri 6:30pm. The Screening Room, Northtown Plaza Business Center, 3131 Sheridan Drive, Amherst (837-0376)

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)—Jimmy Stewart gets to see what life for his friends and community would have been like had he never lived in Frank Capra’s holiday classic. Co-starring Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Travers, Beulah Bondi, Frank Faylen, Ward Bond, Gloria Grahame, H.B. Warner, Frank Albertson, Sheldon Leonard and Charles Lane. Fri 8:30pm, Sun 7pm. The Screening Room, Northtown Plaza Business Center, 3131 Sheridan Drive, Amherst (837-0376)

NANNY MCPHEE—Emma Thompson wrote the script (based on a 1960s series of children’s stories) and stars in the title role as a magical nanny who saves a Victorian family that has been on the verge of falling apart since the death of their mother. Despite disfiguring makeup that give her a snaggletooth, potato nose, unibrow and a Brillo’d complexion—in fact, everything but Roseanne Barr’s cackle—she’s fairly sedate in this broadly played fairy tale that comes across as a lightweight Tim Burton clone. With Colin Firth, Kelly Macdonald, Celia Imrie, Derek Jacobi, Imelda Staunton and Angela Lansbury. Directed by Kirk Jones (Waking Ned Divine). Sat, 11am. Palace Theater, 31 Buffalo St., Hamburg (649–2295)