Entertainment

This Week at the Reel Deal

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Column By JIM O’DONNELL
Reel Deal Theater                  

This week we are opening The Grand Budapest Hotel, Rio 2 and Need for Speed. We will hold Captain America for another week. Noah, Muppets Most Wanted, and Divergent end this Thursday.

After dozens of requests we finally got a print of The Grand Budapest Hotel after weeks of haggling. This comedy/drama is getting reviews in the 90 percent plus range. It doesn’t get much better than that.

Also on our short list, we plan to show 50-1, Read More

Young Actor Sheds Light on Highway Shrines with His Film ‘Descanso’

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Aspen Elementary School fifth grader Christopher Garcia wrote the short film ‘Descanso’ along with his father. He also acts in the film. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
By BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post

Eleven-year-old actor Christopher Garcia spends a lot of time on the highway. He travels between his home in Velarde where he lives with his mom, Sha-marie Reid; his school, Aspen Elementary in Los Alamos; and Albuquerque where he visits his dad, takes acting lessons and acts in commercials and films.

During those drives, Garcia kept noticing the shrines alongside Read More

Mountain Elementary School’s Production of Disney’s Cinderella Kids is a Big Success!

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First and second grade students at Mountain Elementary School perform April 3 in Disney’s ‘Cinderella Kids.’ Courtesy photo

MOUNTAIN SCHOOL News:

Five classes of first and second grade students put on Disney’s musical ‘Cinderella Kids’ April 3 in the Mountain Elementary School gymnasium.

Each student had a special role – whether Cinderella, narrator, solo singer, a wheel of the carriage, or something else. Six students performed as Cinderella. Families and teachers all worked together to help the students perform this “happily-ever-after” tale.

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Want To Be A Movie Extra in Los Alamos?

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COUNTY News:

Members of the public who are interested in auditioning to be an extra in the Lifetime made-for-television movie being filmed in White Rock (working title: “Jubilee”), are encouraged to send an e-mail to the casting director at extras@whiteturtlecasting.com and include a current photo, contact phone number, height, weight and the year, make, model and color of your vehicle. 

Filming in White Rock is scheduled for March 31 and April 1, 2, 3, 4, 7 and 22, however, other portions of the film will be shot in other New Mexico locations through to the end of April.

Please submit Read More

Cinema Cindy Reviews ‘Noah’

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‘Noah’
Review by CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB

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

“Noah”, the new film by Darren Aronofsky, is a fantasy that uses 21st century psychological insights within the framework of an ancient biblical story, ending with mixed results. 

Those who, like us, re-read Genesis 6 through 9 before going to see the film, may find themselves disappointed that more of the details of the story from the Hebrew Bible didn’t make the cut in this story. (Really? There aren’t three wives for the sons? The animals sleep Read More

This Week at the Reel Deal

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Column By JIM O’DONNELL 
Reel Deal Theater                  

Happy Spring Break! We will be open every day, every showtime to accommodate all.

Movie poster for ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier.’ Courtesy Reel Deal Theater

This week, we are opening Captain America: The Winter Soldier.  Muppets Most Wanted, Noah, and Divergent will hold for another week. Mr. Peabody and Sherman ends this Thursday.  

Critic Randy Myers of San Jose Mercury News calls Read More

Rumors Swirl Around True Identity of Movie Being Shot in Pajarito Acres

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The movie crew takes a break this afternoon, on the set of a film being shot at a home in S. Monte Rey in Pajarito Acres. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
A worker constructs a wall in front of the home where the movie is being shot in Pajarito Acres this week. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com

Staff Report:

Speculation sourrounds the movie being shot this week at a Pajarito Acres home. Although the announced title of the film is “Jubilee,” rumor has it, the film is actually “Outlaw Prophet.” The initials “OP” appear on some of the equipment Read More

‘Ruby Sparks’ Explores Love, Real and Imaginary

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‘Ruby Sparks’ movie poster. Courtesy www.cultureslap.com

Review by KELLY DOLEJSI

“Ruby Sparks” (2012, rated R) screens at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 3 at Mesa Public Library as part of the Free Film Series.

It tells the story of young novelist Calvin Weir-Fields (Paul Dano) who has not recovered from his early success. Nor has the acclaimed “genius” recovered from his father’s death or his break-up with his first serious girlfriend. He cannot write, he cannot maintain friendships and he can barely be kind to his dog.

From this nadir, he begins Read More

Movie Trucks, Trailers and Equipment Stored For Night in White Rock

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 Film trucks, trailers, cars and equipment are parked for the night on the vacant lot at the corner of N.M. 4 and Rover Boulevard. Today through Monday, April 7, crews are filming a portion of a Lifetime network, made-for-television movie titled ‘Jubilee,’ starring Tony Goldwyn (from the popular ABC series, Scandal), at a private residence at 155 S. Monte Rey Dr. in Pajarito Acres. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com 

Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

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