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Felix Bush (Robert Duvall) is a hermit with secrets and regrets who stages his own funeral party in Aaron Schneider’s Get Low.
Movie Review: The American
Anton Corbijn’s The American wields a polished, sharp edge
LITTLE ROCK — The party line about Anton Corbijn’s The American is that it’s a very European-feeling movie, something more adult, sophisticated and minor key than the typically over-the-top sensations of Hollywood. Read More »
REVIEW Wild Grass
Director Alain Resnais (Hiroshima Mon Amour) is 88 years old and deserves respect and admiration. Yet all the good will and anticipation in the world can’t make Wild Grass into anything resembling a worthwhile experience. Read More »
Movie Review: Machete
LITTLE ROCK — If Inception is this summer’s smartest cinematic thrill ride, Machete sits at the opposite end of the spectrum. Read More »
ON FILM: Imposing a number on a film degrading
LITTLE ROCK — “There can never be any substitute for your own palate nor any better education than tasting the wine yourself,” the wine critic Robert M. Parker Jr. said in a 2005 interview. “Any scoring system... ultimately makes the taster more accountable to the reader. Read More »
Takers takes top box office spot
LOS ANGELES — The heist thriller Takers moved into first place with $20.5 million after final Sunday sales numbers were tallied, displacing The Last Exorcism, according to Hollywood. com Box Office. The Last Exorcism took in $20.3 million. Read More »
Screen gems
LITTLE ROCK — Karen McCann’s Step Away From the Stone, a faith-based feature filmed entirely in Arkansas, premieres this week in Little Rock at the Riverdale 10, with six screenings per day. Read More »
COMING ATTRACTIONS
LITTLE ROCK — (opening dates are tentative) Resident Evil: Afterlife, R Milla Jovovich returns in this fourth entry of the Resident Evil franchise, this time in Hong Kong. With Ali Larter, Kim Coates, Shawn Roberts; directed by Paul W.S. Anderson. Read More »
Film clips
LITTLE ROCK — At area theaters 85 AVATAR SPECIAL EDITION, PG-13 The rerelease of James Cameron’s blockbuster in 3-D with about nine minutes of extra footage. Read More »
Home movies
LITTLE ROCK — Recent DVD releases: 9th Company (R, 139 minutes) — The first Russian film about the war in Afghanistan seems to take its cue from American Vietnam films like Platoon and Full Metal Jacket. Read More »
PREVIEWS
LITTLE ROCK — New this week The American 88 R George Clooney plays an assassin, constantly on the move and always alone, who takes an assignment to construct a weapon for a mysterious contact. With Thekla Reuten, Paolo Bonacelli, Violante Placido; directed by Anton Corbijn. Review on 1E. Read More »
Movie Review: Get Low
Duvall’s weighty presence almost overwhelms Get Low’s charms
LITTLE ROCK — I think it was in one of animal-welfare expert Temple Grandin’s books where I ran across the notion that “anticipating a good thing is better than having a good thing.” Read More »
Movie Review: The Last Exorcism
LITTLE ROCK — The Last Exorcism is one of the scariest movies to come along in a long time - until the last five minutes or so, when it completely falls apart. Read More »
PREVIEWS
LITTLE ROCK — New this week Avatar Special Edition PG-13 The rerelease of James Cameron’s blockbuster in 3-D with about nine minutes of extra footage. Colonel Glenn 18, Chenal 9. (169 minutes) Get Low 87 PG-13 Robert Duvall plays a Tennessee recluse who, possessed of a lifelong secret, wants to have his funeral while he’s alive. Read More »
REVIEW Twelve
Twelve, the Joel Schumacher-directed adaptation of Nick McDonell’s “controversial best-selling novel,” sinks under the weight of its pretensions, beginning with the first words uttered by its omniscient narrator, Kiefer Sutherland. Read More »
COMING ATTRACTIONS
LITTLE ROCK — (opening dates are tentative) The American, R George Clooney plays an assassin, constantly on the move and always alone, who takes an assignment to construct a weapon for a mysterious contact. Read More »
