Entertainment

Cinema Cindy Reviews American Sniper

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By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB
Los Alamos

“American Sniper” may not be a movie for everyone. It takes the audience into a bloody war we don’t want to witness. It highlights of the life of Chris Kyle, the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history. We watch as he lines up each target in the crosshairs and decides whether or not to pull the trigger.

The movie takes essential highlights from each of Kyle’s four tours of duty in Iraq, his life leading up to his decision to enlist, his training as a Seal and his relationship with his wife Taya.

Mostly, though, this is a war movie. The scenes on patrol, sniping from rooftops Read More

Cinema Cindy Reviews ‘Mortdecai’

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By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB
Los Alamos

“Mortdecai” is the kind of film one attends when in the mood for some light, sophisticated silliness. It isn’t getting great reviews, but perhaps one’s expectations of the film are a bit off. This is an art-heist caper in the genre of The Pink Panther, complete with incompetent thugs, misguided detectives and aristocrats behaving badly.

Movie poster for ‘Mortdecai.’ Courtesy/Reel Deal Theater

Mortdecai, the movie, is based on “Don’t Point That Thing At Me,” the first in a trilogy of books written in the 1970s by British author Kyril Bonfiglioli. Read More

Shine Bright Baby Performs In Los Alamos Feb. 6

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Shine Bright Baby. Courtesy photo

MUSIC News:

Shine Bright Baby, with special guest Loftland, will stop in Los Alamos to play a show Friday, Feb. 6 at Trinity On The Hill Church, 3900 Trinity Dr.
 
The community is invited to attend this free concert. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. with the show at 7 p.m. at Trinity On The Hill Church, 3900 Trinity Dr. Arrive early as space is limited space and show could be packed. Email lainfinitysquared@gmail.com for VIP Pass.  
 
See shinebrightbaby.com for more information on the band.
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Carnaval 2015: Port To Port

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NHCC News:

Frank Leto and PANdemonium with the Odara Dance Ensemble, in partnership with the National Hispanic Cultural Center (NHCC), continue the Center’s annual celebration of Carnaval with “Carnaval 2015: Port to Port” at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Feb. 13-14 in the NHCC’s Albuquerque Journal Theatre.

If you’ve ever wished you could hop on a cruise to the hottest Carnaval locations in the world, now is your chance. “Port to Port” transforms the theatre into a Carnaval cruise liner, and you are invited to join the party, from the port of New Orleans to Cuba, to Trinidad, and your final destination—Rio Read More

This Week At The Reel Deal

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Column By JIM O’DONNELL 
REEL DEAL  

This Friday we are opening The Imitation Game and The Homesman starring Hillary Swank, Tommy Lee Jones, and Meryl Streep. It’s not been well advertised but has great reviews and looks like a poignant film of the old west. We will  be showing it for one week only.

Again thanks to all of you who waited to see The Imitation Game at the Reel Deal. It means a lot to us. We are holding American Sniper, Mortdecai, and Strange Magic for another week. Paddington will end this Thursday.

We are having a special screening of Bag-It, at 7 p.m. this Thursday, Read More

The Bachelor Comes To Santa Fe

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Chris Soules. Courtesy/NMTD

NMTD News:

SANTA FE – New Mexico Tourism Department (NMTD) has announced that Santa Fe will be featured on an upcoming episode of The Bachelor.

The episode will feature a group date through white water rapids while the bachelorettes try their hand at rafting, a one-on-one date miles above the city, and a one-on-one date that truly tests a connection, all with the newest Bachelor, Chris Soules. The episode is scheduled to air at 8/7c Monday, Feb. 2 on ABC.

Soules, has become known as “Prince Farming”. He introduced himself to last season’s Bachelorette Andi Dorfman, Read More

Cinema Cindy Reviews ‘Selma’

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By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB
Los Alamos

“Selma” is the new feature film about the efforts of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to force southern states to adapt to the 1964 Voting Rights Act.

Selma is not a documentary. It is a film meant to remind us what folks sacrificed to get a universal right to vote not only enacted but respected throughout this country.

Movie poster of  ‘Selma.’ Courtesy/rottentomatoes.com

David Oyelowo (Interstellar, The Butler) plays Dr. King with the depth of faith, sensitivity and gravitas necessary to be convincing. Read More

This Week At The Reel Deal

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By JIM O’DONNELL
Reel Deal Theater

This Friday we are opening Strange Magic and Mortdecai. We are holding American Sniper for another week. Big Eyes and Unbroken will end this Thursday. We have booked The Imitation Game for Jan. 30. Again we hope you can wait to see it at the Reel Deal Theater. I wish I could have gotten it sooner but that’s the best I can do.

We are hosting our third annual PEEC event, Back Country Film Festival at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 22. Hope you can make it. There will be fun raffles and Pajarito Brew Pub will be there serving up some nice brews. All proceeds from our box office sales Read More

Die Laughing At LALT’s ‘Murdered to Death’

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The full cast of ‘Murdered to Death.’ Photo by Laurie Tomlinson
 
Review by BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post

Some (okay all) of my family members are continually telling me I have no sense of humor. I prefer to think of myself as discerning where comedy is concerned. In any case, I’m generally a hard sell with comedy, so when I tell you I was rolling in the aisles and laughing my head off along with the rest of the full house at Los Alamos Little Theatre Friday for opening night of “Murdered to Death” it’s quite a compliment to the play and the performers.

The first of Peter Gordon’s Read More