Laramie Movie Scope

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Laramie Movie Scope is an ongoing series of movie reviews, news, links and commentary, scoping out the film industry, penned by local film critics Patrick Ivers and Robert Roten. Roten is a member of the Online Film Critics Society and his reviews are also posted at rottentomatoes.com and at the Movie Review Query Engine. LARIAT is delighted to post them as a free public service to filmgoers everywhere.
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News, essays, podcasts, RSS feeds

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Laramie Film Society news
The Not Shown Before at a Theater Near You Film Series
Celtic Pride (an essay)
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This site is normally updated daily, click your browser's refresh or reload button to get the latest version. Click on the underlined movie titles below to read Robert Roten's reviews (links to Online Film Critics Society reviews of selected films marked by * are also underlined).

Site Navigation: Current Reviews,  Coming Attractions,  DVD Reviews,  Review Archive,  Essay archive,  Mike's Documentary Reviews,  Top 10 movie lists,  Commercial Links,  Critical Philosophy,  Movie links

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Now Showing

Babylon A.D.[1.5 stars]*
Playing at the Fox Cinema, 505 S. 20th, pass restricted -- Click here for links to web sites with local showtimes, runtime and an MPAA rating for this film.

Death Race[2 stars]*
Playing at the Fox Cinema, 505 S. 20th, pass restricted -- Click here for links to web sites with local showtimes, runtime and an MPAA rating for this film.

Disaster Movie[1 star]*
Playing at the Fox Cinema, 505 S. 20th, pass restricted -- Click here for links to web sites with local showtimes, runtime and an MPAA rating for this film.

The House Bunny[2 stars]
Playing at the Fox Cinema, 505 S. 20th, pass restricted -- Click here for links to web sites with local showtimes, runtime and an MPAA rating for this film.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull[3 stars]
Playing at the Wyo Theatre, 309 S. Fifth. Shows at 7 p.m. daily.
Rated PG-13, running time 122 minutes. All tickets $3.

The Rocker[2 stars]*
Playing at the Fox Cinema, 505 S. 20th -- Click here for links to web sites with local showtimes, runtime and an MPAA rating for this film.

Traitor[3 stars]
Playing at the Fox Cinema, 505 S. 20th, pass restricted -- Click here for links to web sites with local showtimes, runtime and an MPAA rating for this film.

Tropic Thunder[2.5 stars]
Playing at the Fox Cinema, 505 S. 20th -- Click here for links to web sites with local showtimes, runtime and an MPAA rating for this film.

Albany County Public Library's Not Shown Before at a Theater Near You summer film series show (Sunday evenings at the library)

Gone Baby Gone[2.5 stars]

Playing at the Albany County Public Library, Sunday, August 31 at 7:30 p.m. only, free admission and snacks. Gone Baby Gone -- A child is missing. The child's grandparents hire a local detective to find the child. The clues lead to unexpected places and a moral dilemma. Stars Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris, Amy Ryan and Amy Madigan. This film was nominated for numerous awards and won numerous awards. Director Ben Affleck won three directing awards and Amy Ryan won 14 best supporting actress awards from various film-related organizations for this film. Ryan was also nominated for an Oscar for her performance in this film. Rated R, 114 minutes. For more information on this film series, including a complete schedule, reviews, ratings and synopsis of series films, click on this link to The Not Shown Before at a Theater Near You Summer Film Series web page.

* Denotes a composite (calculated average) rating, using data provided by members of the Online Film Critics Society, or similar data found at toptenreviews.

Click here for OFCS reviews of Babylon A.D.
Click here for OFCS reviews of Death Race
Click here for OFCS reviews of Disaster Movie
Click here for OFCS reviews of The Rocker
Click here for OFCS reviews of Traitor
Click here for more reviews of current and upcoming films at the Movie Review Query Engine
Click here for more reviews and ratings of current and upcoming films at TopTenreviews.com

Click here for links to web sites with showtimes, running times, and MPAA ratings for movies showing in most U.S. metropolitan areas. There are also links to movie information for theaters in Laramie and specific cities in Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico and the Rocky Mountain region.

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Coming Attractions:
Reviews or previews of movies
which haven't been shown in Laramie yet

Amazing Grace[4 stars]
Gone Baby Gone[2.5 stars]
Google Me[3 stars]
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters[4 stars]
Lake of Fire[3 stars]
Margot at the Wedding[no stars]
Margot at the Wedding (Ivers)
Martian Child[2.5 stars]
Nanking[3 stars]
New Urban Cowboy: Toward a New Pedestrianism[3 stars]
No End in Sight[3 stars]
Redbelt[3 stars]
Reservation Road[3 stars]
Sidekick[3 stars]
Starting Out in the Evening[2.5 stars]
Starting Out in the Evening (Ivers)
The Unknown Woman (La Sconosciuta)[3 stars]
U2 3D[3 stars]
The Walker[3 stars]

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Bob's review vault[vault button for movie review archive index page]

Following are links to over 2,000 archived reviews
of movies starting with the following letters:

A through B   C through D   E through G   H through L
M through Q   R through S   T through Z

Site Navigation:

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