Other Arkansas locations in Little Rock, Conway, Bentonville, Fayetteville and Jonesboro. When radio personality Michael Feldman recently performed his Whad'Ya ...
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May
14
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Calling all film fansLittle Rock Film Festival returns for seventh year.Head South — that's where the Little Rock Film Festival is taking cinephiles for the seventh year of the festival this Wednesday through Sunday. Why South? Because while the the fi...
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May
14
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Tale of the old Dirt Farmer"Our point of view was that if Levon had never been a musician — if he had never been in The Band, if he couldn't play the drums — he'd still be worthy of having a documentary made...
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May
07
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From Aniston to ZodA guide to the summer movie season.That loud cha-ching heard over the weekend was the sound of Iron Man 3 cashing in its weekend domestic receipts to the tune of $175 million, a box-office haul that places it second...
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May
07
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A spirited transformationAt first glance, The Angels’ Share seems to indicate that the collaborations of British director Ken Loach and writer Paul Laverty are pivoting onto a more lighthearted path after ...
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Apr
30
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Trance a thinking-person’s thrillerTrance superficially seems like a regulation crime thriller. The theft of a precious Goya painting from a London auction house sets off a lethal game of hide-and-seek. The early sc...
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Apr
22
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Lost in OblivionGreat Cruise, poignant production, still a so-so sci-fi plot.It is the hallmark of quality science fiction on screen to neglect neither sight nor substance. That is, the good films will have sufficient production value to present a world of ...
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Apr
16
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Baseball biopicJackie Robinson’s story, both on the field and off, is told in 42.Biographies of great athletes can be roughly sorted into three categories: hero-worshipping fables, scandalous feet-of-clay exposes and, rarest of all, narratives that link sports ...
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Apr
09
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Jurassic Park returnsSpielberg classic a digital dino punch in 3-D.Forget blowing the images up to IMAX size and converting the lunging velociraptors and T. Rexes into 3-D. The best reason to revive Jurassic Park for its 20th anniversary is Jeff G...
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Apr
09
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Quick PicksThis week’s top picks in local concerts, fundraisers and events.FRIDAY — Sen. John McCain visits Little Rock for a Clinton School of Public Service lecture at the Robinson Center’s Barry L. Travis Exhibition Hall. The senior U.S. senator from A...
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Mar
26
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Nights in SpamalotIf you’d rather not go see Camelot on stage — after all, ’tis a silly play — consider instead next week’s performance of the award-winning musical Spamalot, which is based on the c...
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Mar
20
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Horror film fest: The sequelJust like any respectable supernatural nemesis seemingly felled in his cinematic debut, the local celebration of the horror genre of film, the Little Rock Horror Picture Show, is b...
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Mar
20
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Droning phone dramaPutting the 911 operator at the center of the story, The Call dials up a shallow thriller.In countless films about emergencies, crimes and police work, the 911 dispatcher is but a bit player, an anonymous, robotic voice briefly heard on the other end of a breathless cal...
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Feb
05
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Gray matters of the heartJust enough life in Warm Bodies to make it a winner.What kind of woman is attracted to a zombie man? Let’s just say it takes a special kind of woman, someone who is able to look past the zombie’s dead stares, dusty white skin and, w...
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Jan
22
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Films & filial feudsA new movie venture, starring Lawrence Hamilton, focuses on the rocky relationships between fathers and sons.K. Clarence Lawrence is the writer, director and producer of Sons & Fathers, shot locally and starring Lawrence Hamilton, Verda Davenport and Vernon Lawrence. The film premieres Mo...
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Dec
31
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For the sake of the storyHyde Park on Hudson aims for presidential prowess but meanders around in an aimless romance.It must be the turn of the year, because presidents are starting to show up in theaters, first in Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln (doing well there despite historical precedent) and now...
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