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The minions made their first appearance in 2010's Despicable Me, a mere five years ago, though it feels like one. They proved to be more popular than the title despicable creature, Gru, and appeared in three short films that year, followed two years later by a straight-to-video feature that still had to have the word "despicable" in it (Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem 3D is the full title, and also features Gru). In 2013, Despicable Me 2 appeared, with diminishing creativity and moxie. Now comes Mi...
Texas Has a Whorehouse in It! Fort Peck Summer Theatre is pleased to continue the 46th season with The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, the lively musical, is based on the true story of the legendary brothel known as The Chicken Ranch in Gilbert, Texas, which operated from 1840 to 1973, until a crusading, Houston radio commentator, Melvin P. Thorpe, (played by Morgan Phelps) forced it to shut its doors. Audience favorite Shannon McMillan, whose Fort Peck...
Is it possible that Americans, or at least American movie reviewers, don't actually watch movies? Could it be that they only listen to them? That's the complaint that movie historian Andrew Sarris made as far back as the early 1960s, when the late Village Voice writer decried the elevation of visually dull social problem movies over the work of Alfred Hitchcock and John Ford, among many others. This was because the critics at the time only listened to these movies, and in the social message...
Don’t trust reviewers. That’s the conclusion I reached, but always really knew, after making the mistake of reading a few articles about the second season of HBO’s True Detective, which made its debut on Sunday, June 21. Devising a new story and location for the second season, True Detective tells of the crime that links a gangster on the make for legitimacy (Vince Vaughn), an angry county sheriff (Rachel McAdams), a suspended highway motorcycle patrolman (Taylor Kitsch), and a city detective (Colin Farrell) in the pocket of the gangs...
How does it grow, my garden? Certainly not with silver bells, nor cockleshells, which are actually a type of mollusk not found up here on the prairies of Northeastern Montana. I might speak sometime in the future about the pretty maids all in a row, as my husband and I did raise three wonderful, pretty daughters. In any case, it does grow an abundance of chives, rhubarb, and raspberries, almost carefree, now that they are well established. It has taken years of gardening to get to the point of...
Here's why I don't like to review animated movies. After years of dutifully attending all the animated films from Pixar, Disney, DreamWorks, Fox, the recent upstart Laika, and the animés from Japan, and after seeing the Shreks, the Toy Stories, the polar comedies, and whatnot, I realized that most animated works told one of exactly two basic stories. In the first story, someone decides to take a journey. It's either a widower going on a vacation (Up), or a zoo animal character who decides to...
Jurassic World pretends that earlier sequels Lost World and III didn't happen. Still, it seems that every time a billionaire wants to resurrect a dinosaur for spectator sport, something goes awry and soon, as Jeff Goldblum says in Lost World, it all seems like a good idea at first, and then there's running, and screaming. This time around the sheen has dimmed on the idea of Jurassic Park after 10 years in operation since the first film and so to increase foot traffic the park's corporate guides...
Steven Spielberg is one of the most important living filmmakers as both director and producer, with his hand also in numerous TV shows, but he is not immune to the glitzy, avaricious aspect of showbiz. Jaws was his first big hit. Later he had another blockbuster with the broadly similar Jurassic Park, also based on a popular novel. But Hollywood DNA must replicate itself, and so there were sequels. Do you remember how many sequels there are to Jaws? After the first film came Jaws 2, followed by...
If they moan, you're good. That's the tact taken by defense counsel when representing a college male accused of attacking or raping a co-ed. That little noise symbolizes "consent," indicating that the woman is enjoying the rough sex emerging from a drunken night at a frat house or a football celebration. The joke used to be that one went to college to learn to drink, have sex, and become an atheist. Now, there's an addendum: what women learn in higher education is gender betrayal. Jon Krakauer...
Both movies at Valley Cinemas are held over this week, which gives us a chance to catch up before the next onslaught of big, new releases. So here are addenda to last week's previews of Tomorrowland and Poltergeist. The predictable knock against the remake of Poltergeist is that it's unnecessary, there being nothing wrong with the 1982 original. But have those who argue this point seen that old film recently? Even at the time the acting was obviously uneven, the special effects were poor, and th...
The built-in audience for theatre in this community is an extraordinary thing. Crowds fill the 975-seat theatre in Fort Peck consistently and contentedly. It just isn't like that elsewhere. The only thing that could be better in the way of audience participation can be summed up in a sentence: Don't miss the first show. In any case, the production team behind this current season certainly earns their keep. With a new show every three weeks through Sept. 6, the workload involved would be taxing...
