Movies in the Park: 'The Help'
Wednesday night’s screening kicks off 17th year of Nashville Scene ’s film series at new location — Percy Warner Park
June 6, 2012
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Wednesday night’s screening kicks off 17th year of Nashville Scene ’s film series at new location — Percy Warner Park
High schoolers on a senior trip to Disneyland got an unexpectedly racy ride this month. One of the Enochs High buses heading south May 11 screened several raunchy teen movies, including ‘Hangover II’, ‘The Sitter’ and ‘Jackass’.
Richard C. Wolfe, owner for the last 41 years of Northampton’s Roxy Theater, still remembers vividly how it was when he walked into the door of that venerable movie house in 1970. “The building itself was basically structurally sound,†he said
Tired of sitting through blue Smurfs and singing chipmunks on family movie night?
“He’s reported to be slightly mad but wily as a fox,” is how Lieutenant Case (Ronald Lewis) describes Oliver Reed’s tribal leader, Ali Khan, and ripe language, rousing music and dodgy politics/accents abound in this Hammer production from 1965.
Once the presents are open and the meal is done, many Christian families will hit the movie theaters.
Not quite as fun or droll as Kenneth Branagh’s Thor but a lot better than the woeful Green Lantern, Captain America is a middling Marvel adaptation, which starts nicely but flags (the lengthy action scenes mainly) half-way through.
Todd Haynes’s first, hugely successful Hangover caper was innovative, crude and funny, the lead characters – decent Doug (Justin Bartha), indecent Phil (Bradley Cooper), unhinged Alan (Zach Galifianakis) and neurotic Stu (Ed Helms) – were obnoxious but still endearing, particularly Helms’s bullied dentist.
Harry Potter’s film incarnation can now settle where he belongs – the pre-Christmas shopping melee.
The closest Chris Weitz had previously come to the father-son dynamic at the heart of this affecting immigration drama was in the Hugh Grant vehicle About a Boy, before he was seduced by franchise riches in The Golden Compass and New Moon.