Entertainment

Dan Guerrero’s ¡Gaytino! Coming To NHCC

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Dan Guerro. Photo by Luther Orrick-Guzman

NHCC News:

  • Mariachi to Merman, Sondheim to César Chávez—A True Fable in Story and Song

A gay Chicano moves from the back of the bus to the front of American pop culture in ¡Gaytino!, chronicling Dan Guerrero’s remarkable life journey from East LA in the 1950s to New York’s Broadway in the 60s and 70s and back again to Hollywood.  

Guerrero’s riveting solo show, touching, provocative, hilarious, and absolutely one-of-a-kind, comes to the National Hispanic Cultural Center (NHCC) Jan. 23-24 as the fourth production in the NHCC’s Siembra: Latino Theatre Read More

This Week At The Reel Deal

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By JIM O’DONNELL
Reel Deal Theater

At 7 p.m. this Thursday,we are opening American Sniper. Friday we are opening Paddington and Big Eyes. Amy Adams won a Golden Globe for her performance in Big Eyes.

We are holding Unbroken for another week. The Hobbit, Night at the Museum and Into the Woods 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 ourthird annual PEEC event, Back Country Film Festival, at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 22. Hope you can Read More

Backcountry Film Festival Will Inspire Adventurers To Seek Snow Less Traveled

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Film clip from Backcountry Film Festival. Courtesy/PEEC

PEEC News:

The Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) and the Reel Deal Theater are teaming up again to bring the popular Backcountry Film Festival to Los Alamos for a fourth year in a row.

Produced by the Boise-based nonprofit Winter Wildlands Alliance, the touring Backcountry Film Festival will make its way to more than 100 locations around the world. The screening at the Reel Deal at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 22, will be the only one in New Mexico.

The Pajarito Brewpub will be selling beer and wine before the show and at intermission. Read More

Cinema Cindy Reviews ‘Unbroken’

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By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB
Los Alamos

“Unbroken” shows the very best and the very worst humans do to one another in times of war.

It is the true story of an ordinary American soldier who, before the war, was an extraordinary Olympic runner. Flashbacks show his journey to greatness from early childhood attempts at being a hoodlum.

Louis Zamperini was the son of Italian immigrants living in Torrance, Calif. His older brother encouraged him to channel his anger at bullies into working hard at running. He ran in high school, broke speed records and represented the U.S. at the Berlin Olympics in 1936. Most Read More

Cinema Cindy Reviews ‘Into the Woods’

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By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB
Los Alamos

“Into the Woods” is a Broadway musical by Stephen Sondheim brought to film by Director Rob Marshall and Disney Studio. The music is often jaunty, sometimes catchy, with thoughtful, introspective lyrics.

This musical is a fairy tale parodying fairy tales. It is a satire, exploring the role of “Prince Charming” in the dreams of young females as well as the hopes of prospective princesses.

The storyline pulls together the fairy tales of Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk and Rapunzel with an original story about a baker and his wife who have Read More

This Week At The Reel Deal

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By JIM ODONNELL
Reel Deal Theater

This Friday we are opening Unbroken. Thanks to all of you who waited to see it at the Reel Deal. We also have scheduled American Sniper for a Special Screening at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 15. Advance tickets are now on sale at our Box Office.

We are holding The Hobbit, Into the Woods and Night at the Museum for another week. Wild will end this Thursday.

Movie Poster for ‘Unbroken.’ Courtesy/ Real Deal Theater

Unbroken: Academy Award (R) winner Angelina Jolie directs and produces Unbroken, an epic drama that follows the incredible life of Olympian and war Read More

Dust Bowl Years Classic ‘Grapes of Wrath’ Thursday

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Poster for ‘Grapes of Wrath.’ Courtesy/rottentomatoes.com

 

Review by KELLY DOLEJSI
Los Alamos

“The Grapes of Wrath” (1940, unrated), showing Thursday at Mesa Public Library, follows the story of one of hundreds of thousands of Depression-era “Okie” families who head for California and its promises of work.

In this Oscar-winning film based on John Steinbeck’s classic novel of the same name, the Joads and their neighbors have been forced off land their families have been living on for generations. Some of the sharecroppers try to fight, and watch as bulldozers roll over Read More

This Week at the Reel Deal

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By JIM O’DONNELL    
Reel Deal Theater

We are holding The Hobbit, Wild, Into the Woods and Night at the Museum for another week.

We have been working on our broken projector for almost two weeks now and hope to get it up and running today so we can finally show Night at the Museum.

It has been disappointing to only have three screens over the holidays, but hopefully we are close to a solution.

Just after the holidays, we will open Unbroken, American Sniper, The Imitation Game, Paddington, Big Eyes, The Wedding Ringer, Mortdecai, and Homesman.

“Into the Woods” is Read More

Cinema Cindy Reviews ‘The Imitation Game’

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By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB
Los Alamos

“The Imitation Game” is a tight period piece, a biographical film about Alan Turing and the effort to crack the code of the Nazi’s Enigma machine in the Second World War. The machine changed its encryption every day at midnight, much faster than the cryptographers could solve. The film is quite compelling throughout and well acted, especially by the lead.

Benedict Cumberbatch plays Alan Turing in his every twitch and clueless glance. Turing was not only an obsessive-compulsive character and a genius, he was the type who is unable to pick up on social clues and who Read More

This Week at the Reel Deal

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By JIM O’DONNELL
Reel Deal Theater

Thanks to our brilliant staff, we are open every day during the holidays, please check our schedule for showtimes!

On Christmas Day, Thursday, Dec. 25, we are opening Wild with Reese Witherspoon and Into the Woods (we got it!!!) starring Meryl Streep

We will hold The Hobbit and Night at the Museum.

As you probably already know, Sony has pulled The Interview (except for select screens) so we will not be showing it.

Just after the Holidays we will open Unbroken, American Sniper, The Imitation Game, Paddington, Big Eyes, The Wedding Ringer, Mortdecai Read More