Entertainment

This Week At The Reel Deal

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By JIM O’DONNELL
Reel Deal Theater

We had 25 contenders and only one winner for our second annual Reel Deal Academy Award Contest. If Boyhood would have won instead of Birdman, I would have had to award about 20 six-month passes.

Birdman, the quirky but original film was a bit of surprise but maybe the Academy is looking for original, non-sequel films. This is a good thing as the days of four, five or even six sequals are getting real old.

Having said that I am also convinced the Academy is becoming more disconnected with movie patrons. If it was up to moviegoers, the winner list would look very Read More

PEEC Hosts ‘Wrenched’ Screening At Reel Deal

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Movie Poster for ‘Wrenched’ Courtesy/amazon.com

PEEC NEWS:

The documentary Wrenched delves into Edward Abbey’s most famous and influential work of fiction, The Monkey Wrench Gang, which came to be known for its protest of environmentally damaging activities in the American Southwest.

The Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) will host a special screening of the movie at 6:30 p.m., March 5 at the Reel Deal Theater. Special guest Jack Loeffler, a close friend of Abbey’s, will introduce the film and answer questions prior to the screening.

Wrenched reveals how Abbey Read More

Infinity Squared Music Presents Spoken Lead Singer Matt Baird In Los Alamos Concert Tuesday Evening

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Spoken lead singer Matt Baird performs at 7 p.m., Tuesday. Courtesy photo

INFINITY SQUARED MUSIC News:

Don’t miss this concert at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24. Matt Baird, lead singer for Spoken, has come from Iowa by way of Texas to do an acoustic show at New Beginnings Fellowship for a $5 cover fee.

This event is the third show in six months, brought to you by a new Los Alamos community group, represented by the name Infinity Squared Music and coordinated by local Phil Jacobson.

The name was born out of the first show (September 2014), where nationally-acclaimed Everfound performed at White Rock Baptist Read More

‘Culture Day’ At Roundhouse Offers Best Of State Museums And Historic Sites

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State News:
 
SANTA FE ― The New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs will host “Culture Day” 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday at the State Capitol Rotunda.
 
Interactive exhibits featuring New Mexico’s state-run museums and historic sites, as well as arts, historic preservation, archaeology and library programs will be offered to legislators and visitors to the Capitol throughout the day:
  • New Mexico Arts will provide “Oculus Rift Glasses” offering the wearer a cutting edge virtual “Pull of the Moon Experience.”
  • The NM State Library will display the new “Brainfuse” online tutorial
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Cinema Cindy Reviews ‘Kingsman: The Secret Service’

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By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB
Los Alamos

“Kingsman: The Secret Service” is an “R” rated, comic book style movie, featuring exquisitely dressed gentleman secret agents and an evil genius villain.

The secret agents have ingenious weapons inspired by James Bond movies. The evil genius uses cell phones in his attempt to control the world.

If you know all that before going to see the film, it might help. The “R” rating is mostly for violence, much of which is way over the top, reference to sex, and rough language. The film is not so much silly as it is absurd in its tone.

Reasons to see the film might include the nearly Read More

‘Willy Wonka Jr.’ Opens Tonight

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Cast of ‘Willy Wonka Jr.’ Courtesy photo
 
ACCT News:

Atomic City Children’s Theater (ACCT) and Los Alamos Public Schools (LAPS) reprise Willy Wonka, Jr.

Originally presented by ACCT in 2009, this weekend’s production, performed by a talented cast of Los Alamos Middle School students, will leave you singing.

Follow the adventures of five lucky children who win a contest to tour the famous Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory. Evelyn Wohlbier plays the eccentric Willy Wonka and leads the tour down the Chocolate River, through the Candy Inventing Room, the Fizzy Lifting Read More

This Week At The Reel Deal

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By JIM O’DONNELL
Reel Deal Theater

The Second Annual Reel Deal Theater Academy Award Contest: Any person predicting the winner in all of the following categories will win a six-month pass to the movies of their choice at the Reel Deal Theater.

The categories are: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Actress in a Supporting Role, and Best Animated Feature Film. The winner or winners must submit their predictions to me before noon MST Sunday Feb. 22 at odonnell455@gmail.com. It doesn’t hurt to try and Good Luck!

This Friday we are opening McFarland Read More

Los Alamos Author Hits Amazon Bestseller List

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Cover of ‘Humans vs. Aliens.’ Courtesy/T. Jackson King

LITERARY News:

Los Alamos author T. Jackson King’s newest science fiction novel Humans vs. Aliens has hit No. 11 on Amazon’s Hot New Releases in Space Opera Bestseller list.

The novel explores the invasion of Aliens who are apex predators aiming to add Sol system to their Hunt territory.

T. Jackson King

“I got the idea for this novel when I asked what if First Contact between Humans and Aliens happens in our Kuiper Belt just beyond Pluto?” King said. “Will Humans surrender to apex predators from the stars, or will we fight Read More