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The Little Rock Film Festival has a track record of picking winners
The lineup for the seventh Little Rock Film Festival, which opens Wednesday and continues through Sunday, reads like a musing in the Hollywood Reporter on independent Oscar contenders. Continue reading...
Panelists will discuss nonfiction storytelling
Brent Renaud, award-winning documentary filmmaker and festival founder and programmer, pays particular attention to character-driven films. Continue reading...
Hollywood serves junk, glazed-eyed public eats
How early did summer arrive this year? It snowed in Fayetteville on the morning of the day blockbuster movie season arrived. Continue reading...
Great Gatsby redux gorges on decadence
With The Great Gatsby, Australian director Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge!) may be adapting F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, but his philosophy seems to be more grounded in the work of William Blake. Continue reading...
Peeples
The people of Peeples make a better impression than most collections of oddballs in the weary mold of comedies centered on meeting the prospective in-laws. Continue reading...
Even 3-D Gatsby won’t touch book
As of this writing, I haven’t seen Baz Luhrmann’s highly stylized version of The Great Gatsby, and I don’t know that I will see it in all its 3-D grandeur before it ends its theatrical run. I might wait for the DVD. Continue reading...
HOME MOVIES
Jack Reacher, Directed by Christopher McQuarrie (PG-13, 130 minutes) When an obviously competent and extremely cold-blooded assailant takes five lives in downtown Pittsburgh, all evidence directly aims at quickly apprehended former Army sniper James Barr. Continue reading...
Iron Man 3 is a box-offi ce smash
Iron Man 3 burst into theaters with $174.1 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales, giving Walt Disney Co.’s Marvel division its second straight mega-hit to start a summer movie season. Continue reading...
Film clips
At area theaters 75 ADMISSION, PG-13 Tina Fey plays a straight-laced Princeton University admissions officer who is caught off-guard when a recruiting visit to an alternative high school overseen by her former college classmate (Paul Rudd) turns up what may be the son (Nat Wolff) she secretly gave up for adoption many years ago. (100 minutes) Continue reading...
COMING ATTRACTIONS
(opening dates are tentative) Ain’t in It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm, not rated Documentary director Jacob Hatley spent time with the late Levon Helm at his home in Woodstock, N.Y., while Helm was creating his first studio album in 25 years. Continue reading...
PREVIEWS
New this week Aftershock 76 R A hapless American tourist in Chile thinks his luck with the ladies has changed until an earthquake turns a onetime paradise into a landscape of death and everybody is running for their lives from looters, escaped convicts and the shaking ground. Continue reading...
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY
Happy birthday. You’ll enjoy the highlights of the year, but it’s the tests that result in a deeper understanding of yourself and ultimately broaden your horizons. Opportunities over the next five weeks lead to romance or partnership. Continue reading...
HELPFUL HINTS
DEAR HELOISE: I’ll be moving in the next few months. My concern is how can I move my plants safely? Continue reading...
ON CHRISTIANITY
DEAR REV. GRAHAM: I have a friend who says that Satan is very religious, because he believes in God and angels and all that, and is even a supporter of some religions. Where did my friend get this idea? — J.McR. Continue reading...
Super Quiz: Name the capital and country, which both end in “A”
1. O and C 2. C and A 3. H and C 4. B and C Continue reading...
