How many of this year’s Academy Award-winning films have you seen? Still a few left on your list? Beginning Wednesday, Our Town Cinemas in Davidson will have the three top Oscar winners, including “The Hurt Locker,” which is currently not in theaters.

“The Hurt Locker” won Best Picture Sunday. Also showing will be “Crazy Heart,” which won Best Actor for Jeff Bridges; and “Blind Side,” with Sandra Bullock (Best Actress). Those films will be in rotation this week with “Alice in Wonderland” and “Shutter Island” Wednesday and Thursday. Then beginning Friday, “The Green Zone” joins the mix, replacing “Shutter Island.” (For showtimes, see our Showtimes listing on the main Guide page.) Read the full story

Davidson Community Players will host a free screening of the movie “Boycott” next Thursday, Feb. 11, in a program that provides a bit of context for the theater group’s March production of the Broadway hit “Violet.”

The screening begins at 7 p.m., at Our Town Cinemas in Sadler Square, off Griffith Street. (NOTE: As of Feb. 5, reservations for this event were all taken.)

“Boycott” is set in Montgomery, Ala., at the start of the American civil rights movement. It is a historical narrative using file footage and re-enacted scenes to captures the prevailing sentiments of the period.

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Drink and a movie anyone? Our Town Cinemas in Davidson begins serving wine and beer at its concession stand today, Tuesday, Jan. 26.

Meanwhile, the theater will introduce a couple of new films beginning on Friday: “Avatar” (in regular format) and “Blind Side.” And coming next week: A free public screening of the season’s first episode of TV show “Lost.” Read the full story

"Annavel and the Funny Little Man" at Davidson College Fri-Sun.

It’s a great weekend to be in Davidson, with music, theater and a farmer’s market. The joint Davidson College-Davidson Community Players children’s theater production “Annavel and the Funny Little Man: A Rumplestiltskin Tale” is onstage at Davidson College. Davidson Farmers Market is back with a Saturday tailgate market next to Town Hall. Local musicians will play an all-day benefit concert Saturday at Summit Coffee for Haitian earthquake relief.

The Lake Norman Chamber’s annual meeting is tonight at River Run, where local lawyer Bob McIntosh will be installed as 2010 chairman. Former Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory is the keynote speaker.

Three new films open Friday at Our Town Cinemas: “Tooth Fairy,” “Young Victoria” and “Up in the Air.” St. Alban’s Episcopal Church hosts a blood drive on Saturday, and Saturday night brings the annual ICE Gala at the Peninsula Club, to raise money for Davidson’s Ada Jenkins Center.
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Our Town Cinemas, the new movie theater in Sadler Square shopping center, continues to add items to its menu and titles to its marquee.

The theater said Wednesday its application for a beer and wine license has been approved, though it may be a couple of weeks before the bar is open. Meanwhile, the theater has unveiled two new titles, which will arrive Friday: “Leap Year,” and “Alvin & The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel.” (See showtimes on the right side of our Guide page and descriptions below.) Read the full story