Entertainment

This Week at the Reel Deal

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Column By JIM O’DONNELL     

This week we are opening the highly lauded film, Chef and will hold Edge of Tomorrow, The Fault in our Stars and How to Train your Dragon 2. Maleficent will end this Thursday.

Chef’s stellar cast includes Dustin Hoffman, John Leguizamo, Sofia Vergara, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, and Chef, John Favreau.We decided to open this film instead of one of the many blockbusters available now in hopes of bringing patrons with other interests to the Reel Deal.

As Moira MacDonald of the Seattle Times says, “If Chef were a musical, Read More

More Scenes From Friday’s Summer Concert

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Hula Hoopin to the rockin sounds of the Red Elvises Friday at Ashley Pond Park. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com

Hula hoopers showing off their ankle, knee and neck moves. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

The Red Elvises kick out the jams. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

The Los Alamos Hill Stompers leave it all on the stage while playing between sets Friday night. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com

Friday night fun. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Concert enthusiasts of all ages fill Ashley Pond Park Friday to hear the Red Elvises rock band. Photo by Read More

Cinema Cindy Reviews ‘The Fault in Our Stars’

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By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB
Los Alamos

“The Fault in Our Stars” is winning market share at the box office these days. This film, based on the novel by John Green, is immensely popular with young adults and teenagers.  Yet, the story has a message for anyone with a tender heart who has wondered at the “fairness” of terminal cancer, or of any death that cuts short a life. Rather than being depressing, this movie takes viewers on an uplifting journey.

Movie poster for ‘The Fault in Our Stars.’ Courtesy/Reel Deal Theater

Hazel Grace Lancaster is 16 when she meets 18-year-old Augustus Waters Read More

This Week at the Reel Deal

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Column By JIM O’DONNELL
Reel Deal Theater         

This week we are opening The Fault in our Stars and How to Train your Dragon 2. We will hold Edge of Tomorrow,and Maleficent. X-Men, and A Million Ways to Die in the West will end this Thursday.

We had so many requests for The Fault in our Stars we managed to get a second-week print which is almost impossible, so here it is. Come and see it. Unfortunately, we had to pass on 22 Jump St. for now, but hope to open it in a couple of weeks if we have room. It was a difficult decision.

“The Fault in our Stars’ Read More

Summerfest Crowd Blankets Pajarito Mountain

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Pajarito Mountain Summerfest drew a big crowd to the Ski Hill Saturday. Photo by Jim O’Donnell
 
Nosotros entertains at Summerfest. Photo by Jim O’Donnell
 
Happy guys sample New Mexico brewed beer at Summerfest. Photo by Jim O’Donnell
 

Photo Essay by JIM O’DONNELL

In celebration of the summer season, Ski Pajarito in Los Alamos hosted the ninth annual Summerfest Saturday June 7, featuring live music by Nosotros, New Mexico Brewer’s Fest and Pajarito Punishment Downhill Bike Race, among other activities.

A big crowd turned out for fun in the sun on Read More

This Week at the Reel Deal

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Column By JIM O’DONNELL  
Reel Deal Theater           

This week we are opening Edge of Tomorrow, with Emily Blunt and Tom Cruise. Wewill hold X-Men: Days of Future Past, Maleficent, and A Million Ways to Die in the West. Godzilla and Blended will end this Thursday.

Movie poster for ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ Courtesy/Reel Deal Theater

Edge of Tomorrow has been getting over the top 90 percent ratings, and Emily Blunt, one of my favorite actresses’ co-stars (or stars) in this science fiction thriller directed Read More

Family Secrets Make Up ‘City Island’ Plot

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‘City Island’ movie poster. Courtesy/impawards.com

Review by KELLY DOLEJSI

“If we only knew each other’s secrets, what comforts we should find.” So says John Churton Collins, who has nothing to do with this week’s screening at Mesa Public Library. Nevertheless, “City Island” (2009, PG-13), echoes the long-dead English literary critic’s pithy dictum.

Writer/director Raymond De Felitta’s farcical drama centers, as all good farcical dramas should, on a family. Families are always full of buffoonery and ridiculously improbable situations, and the film’s Rizzo family is Read More

This Week at the Reel Deal

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Column by JIM O’DONNELL
Reel Deal              

This week we are opening Maleficent, andA Million Ways to Die in the West. We will hold X-Men: Days of Future Past, Godzilla, and Blended. Blended has only one matinee each day so do check our schedule. Million Dollar Arm will end this Thursday.

From what I’ve seen of our two new movies, Maleficent lead by Angelina Jolie, and Elle Fanning, should be great fun for all ages while A Million Ways to Die in the West is both hilarious and vulgar, so I would give it a fairly strong R rating. Read More

Cinema Cindy Reviews ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’

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By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB

“X-Men: Days of Future Past” may fall into the same genre of superhero movies as “Spiderman 2”, which played last week here in town, but that is where any similarity between the two films ends.

Admittedly, this is an entertaining genre but my qualifications critiquing it are few. Like many people, I don’t have the backstory on these characters (especially Mystique, Beast, Quicksilver, Wolverine, even Professor X and Magneto) beyond what the film itself tells us.

Movie poster for ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past.’ Courtesy/Reel Read More

This Week at the Reel Deal

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By JIM O’DONNELL
Reel Deal Theater

This week we are opening Blended, with Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler, and X-Men: Days of Future Pastwith Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique, Raven. We will hold Godzilla and Million Dollar Arm for another week. Neighbors and Spider Man 2 will end this Thursday.

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

Blended: After a disastrous blind date, single parents Lauren and Jim agree on only one thing. They never want to see each other again. But when Read More