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The Grating Dictator
posted: 05/18/2012 2:24 a.m. Discuss
The wonderful thing that has arisen from the Arab Spring is that people in the region can now ridicule tyrants like Moammar Gadhafi and Hosni Mubarak instead of quaking at the mention of their names.
Battleship targets broad box office
posted: 05/18/2012 2:22 a.m. Discuss
On a clear, windless morning in January, director Peter Berg climbed from a U.S. Navy helicopter onto the deck of this 9,200-ton destroyer steaming north off the coast of San Diego and hurried to the bridge to meet the ship’s commanding officer, Tate Westbrook.
REVIEW: What to Expect When You’re Expecting
posted: 05/18/2012 2:20 a.m. Discuss
Watching What to Expect When You’re Expecting is like attending a baby shower where some guests give the mother gifts she didn’t want or need.
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REVIEW: Last Days Here
posted: 05/18/2012 2:18 a.m. Discuss
Harrowing and at times quite funny, Last Days Here is the latest and maybe the best in what seems to have become a trend — documentaries about obscure rock bands who somehow have maintained a small but devoted following despite their failure to make much of an impression beyond their cult.
The Avengers vanquishes all rivals
posted: 05/18/2012 2:16 a.m. Discuss
The Avengers is taking a page out of Superman’s comic book — flying faster than a speeding bullet to the billion-dollar mark at the box office.
REVIEW: Being Flynn
posted: 05/18/2012 2:14 a.m. Discuss
By rough count, Robert De Niro has been in 89 films, yet he’s likely never played a character quite like Jonathan Flynn, the drunken, self-aggrandizing father taken from Nick Flynn’s searing memoir Another Bull**** Night in Suck City. Flynn Sr. is surly, racist and a homophobe. He also has an unceasing belief in his own literary genius, which makes him more than a little tragic.
Screen gems
posted: 05/18/2012 2:11 a.m. Discuss
Last week dozens of eager members of the region’s film community gathered at the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce as Little Rock Film Festival Executive Director Craig Renaud announced the roster of “Made in Arkansas” films.
Film clips
posted: 05/18/2012 2:10 a.m. Discuss
At area theaters 89 THE AVENGERS, PG-13 The title superheroes of all those preceding Marvel-based, big-screen comic book adventures, including Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Captain America: The First Avenger (Chris Evans), The Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) and Thor (Chris Hemsworth) in a major-movie mash-up. Nick Fury, director of the international peacekeeping agency SHIELD, pulls together a team to battle the unexpected enemy threatening global safety and security.
COMING ATTRACTIONS
posted: 05/18/2012 2:07 a.m. Discuss
(opening dates are tentative) Chernobyl Diaries, R Six young tourists looking to go off the beaten path find themselves stranded in the town that formerly housed the folks who worked at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, supposedly totally abandoned for 25 years, but, of course, they discover they’re not alone.
PREVIEWS
posted: 05/18/2012 2:06 a.m. Discuss
New this week Battleship 65 PG-13 Based, believe it or not, on Hasbro’s classic naval combat game, our heroes sail aboard the USS John Paul Jones as the planet fights for survival against a superior force of what the trailers suggest are big, nasty aliens and/or robots. With Taylor Kitsch, Brooklyn Decker, Alexander Skarsgard, Rihanna, Tadanobu Asano, Liam Neeson; directed by Peter Berg.
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY
posted: 05/18/2012 2:05 a.m. Discuss
Happy birthday. You’re exceedingly clever and will figure out what needs to happen in order for you to get what you want. Someone new finds your personality enchanting. You’ll reorganize your finances and sock away money monthly. Cancer and Scorpio people adore you.
HELPFUL HINTS
posted: 05/18/2012 2:04 a.m. Discuss
DEAR HELOISE: When making a donation/memorial, designate how this should be directed — i.e., Music Fund Memorial, Scholarship Memorial, etc.
ON CHRISTIANITY
posted: 05/18/2012 2:03 a.m. Discuss
DEAR REV. GRAHAM: I grew up in a very unhappy home — lots of conflict, plus verbal and physical abuse. Finally my parents split, but because of all this I have a very hard time trusting people or thinking I can ever love someone (let alone love God).
Super Quiz: Famous Bostonians
posted: 05/18/2012 2:02 a.m. Discuss
1. Author of Little Women 2. Sixth U.S. president 3. Author known for novels about poor boys and their rise to success 4. He married actress Jennifer Garner in 2005. 5. Composer whose hits include Blue Tango and “Sleigh Ride”
The Dictator rules theaters Friday
posted: 05/17/2012 11:06 a.m. Discuss
The wonderful thing that has arisen from the Arab Spring is that people in the region can now ridicule tyrants like Moammar Gadhafi and Hosni Mubarak instead of quaking at the mention of their names, writes review Dan Lybarger in Friday’s MovieStyle.
