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Unseemingly academia
posted: 05/11/2012 1:56 a.m. Discuss
In Hebrew with English subtitles In 1917, the German economist and sociologist Max Weber delivered a lecture on “Science as a Vocation,” in which he weighed the pros and cons of life as an academic scientist. To his mind, scientists were limited to providing explanations and justifications, but that it was up to philosophers to explain why things mattered. And that while an artist might find fulfillment in his work, it was the scientists’ lot to have his work surpassed by others.
ON FILM: Wham! Bam! movies stir up uneasy questions
posted: 05/11/2012 1:54 a.m. Discuss
Summer seems to arrive earlier every year.
REVIEW: Dark Shadows
posted: 05/11/2012 1:53 a.m. Discuss
The co-dependent bromance between Tim Burton and Johnny Depp continues unabated, and seemingly in ever-more-creepy installments. It began more than 20 years ago, with a giant, misanthropic teenager with shears for hands and a leather fetish; continued with an old-world constable pursued by a cranium-challenged apparition; and perhaps reached its creepy apex with an eerily unwatchable pansexual candy factory owner.
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$1 billion in reach for Avengers
posted: 05/11/2012 1:52 a.m. Discuss
It was a weekend that made Hollywood stand back and marvel. The Avengers, from Walt Disney’s Marvel Studios, didn’t just break the record for the best opening weekend in Hollywood history — the film smashed through it Hulk style, grabbing up big green fistfuls of money.
Screen gems
posted: 05/11/2012 1:50 a.m. Discuss
The sixth annual Little Rock Film Festival is almost upon us. The festival just announced its opening-night film, and for the first time it’s going with a documentary.
REVIEW: The Kid With a Bike
posted: 05/11/2012 1:50 a.m. Discuss
Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne make films so naturalistic and low-key they might be mistaken for the sort of cinema verite documentaries the brothers made in the 1970s. Spare and unflinching, their movies, like Lorna’s Silence (2009), L’Enfant (2005) and Rosetta (1999), are characterdriven narratives about desperate people living on the margins of society.
Super Quiz: The answer applies to either of the given definitions
posted: 05/11/2012 1:41 a.m. Discuss
1. A penny/a policeman 2. A shape with five sides/U.S. Department of Defense headquarters 3. A chocolate bar/a galaxy 4. A common tool/a method of military training 5. A school of marine mammals/a detachable compartment on a spacecraft
Film clips
posted: 05/11/2012 1:41 a.m. Discuss
At area theaters 80 ACT OF VALOR, R A cast of real life, active-duty Navy SEALs race to stop a deadly terrorist plot against the United States, but each time they think they’ve accomplished their mission, a new piece of intelligence reveals another shocking twist. (101 minutes)
ON CHRISTIANITY
posted: 05/11/2012 1:41 a.m. Discuss
DEAR REV. GRAHAM: I don’t come from a religious family, so a lot of the “churchy” talk I hear people use in the church I’m attending goes over my head.
HELPFUL HINTS
posted: 05/11/2012 1:40 a.m. Discuss
DEAR HELOISE: I would like to know if butter has to be kept in the refrigerator. I buy a pound of butter, and I put a stick on a glass dish and keep covered on the counter. I put the rest in the refrigerator until needed. Is this correct?
COMING ATTRACTIONS
posted: 05/11/2012 1:38 a.m. Discuss
(opening dates are tentative) The Dictator, R Sacha Baron Cohen plays the title role, a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy will never come to the country he has so lovingly oppressed.
PREVIEWS
posted: 05/11/2012 1:37 a.m. Discuss
New this week Dark Shadows 74 PG-13 Director Tim Burton brings to the big screen TV’s campy bloodsucker Barnabas Collins (via favorite actor/ collaborator Johnny Depp), turned by a witch’s curse into a vampire in the late 18th century and discovering, after being freed from a tomb in 1972, that the world has become a very different place indeed.
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY
posted: 05/11/2012 1:36 a.m. Discuss
Happy birthday. People appreciate you for the big and little contributions you make to their lives. The next 10 weeks are marked by artistic whimsy and romance. Your devotion to family will be highlighted in July.
2 foreign flicks more than a 'Footnote'
posted: 05/10/2012 11:45 a.m. Discuss
Two really excellent foreign movies are opening in Little Rock theaters this week — the Israeli dark comedy Footnote and the latest from the Belgian Dardenne brothers, the naturalistic drama The Kid With a Bike.
Up to the TASK
posted: 05/04/2012 2:26 a.m. Discuss
It gives absolutely nothing away to talk about the ending of Joss Whedon’s hugely anticipated, multi-superhero blockbuster. (Well, the initial ending credits anyway — that section between the narrative end of the film and the special sneak add-on scene that has become as much a staple of the Marvel universe as evil skulls and radioactive spiders.)
