Buggy Movies

It’s A Bug’s Life for Antz, Bees, spiders and crickets!  Enjoy these buggy movies and more at your neighborhood library.  For a complete listing of events at each location, download the Summer Reading Calendar. (.pdf)

The Ant Bully
After Lucas Nickle floods an ant colony with his watergun, he’s magically shrunken down to insect size and sentenced to hard labor in the ruins.  88 minutes.  Rated PG.

See this movie:
July 29, 2 pm at Central Library
July 31, 10 am at Central Library
August 4, 2 pm at Kathleen Clay Edwards Family Branch

Antz
A rather neurotic ant tries to break from his totalitarian society while trying to win the affection of the princess he loves. 83 minutes. Rated PG.

See this movie:
July 15, 2 pm at Central Library
July 17, 10 am at Central Library
July 24, 4 pm at Benjamin Branch
August 5, 10 am at Vance Chavis Branch Library

Bee Movie
Barry B. Benson, a bee who has just graduated from college, is disillusioned at his lone career choice: making honey. On a special trip outside the hive, Barry’s life is saved by Vanessa, a florist in New York City. As their relationship blossoms, he discovers humans actually eat honey, and subsequently decides to sue us. 90 minutes. Rated PG.

See this movie:
June 16, 2 pm at Kathleen Clay Edwards Family Branch
June 17, 2 pm at Central Library
June 19, 10 am at Central Library
July 15, 3:30 pm at Hemphill Library
July 29, 10 am at Vance Chavis Branch Library
August 7, 2:30 pm at Glenwood Library

A Bug’s Life
A misfit ant, looking for warriors to save his colony from grasshoppers, recruits a group of bugs that turn out to be an inept circus troup.  96 minutes. Rated G.

See this movie:
June 24, 2 pm at Central Library
June 24, 10 am at Vance Chavis Branch Library
June 24, 3:30 pm at Hemphill Library
June 26, 10 am at Central Library
July 1, 12:30 pm at Glenwood Library
July 2, 3 pm at McGirt Horton Library
July 2, 2:30 pm at Kathleen Clay Edwards Family Branch
July 3, 10 am at Glenwood Library

Cricket in Times Square
Chester Cricket gets trapped inside a picnic basket and transported from his home in Connecticut to the middle of New York City.

See this movie:
July 18, 10 am at McGirt Horton Library

Charlotte’s Web
Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen.

See this movie:
July 8, 2 pm at Central Library
July 8, 10 am at Vance Chavis Branch Library
July 10, 10 am at Central Library
July 14, 2 pm at Kathleen Clay Edwards Family Branch
August 12, 12:30 pm at Glenwood Library
August 14, 10 am at Glenwood Library

James and the Giant Peach

Spiderman

The Spiderwick Chronicles

Thumbelina