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 Robert Roten and Patrick Ivers. Roten is a member of the Online Film Critics Society and his reviews are also linked at rottentomatoes.com and both his and Ivers reviews are linked through the Movie Review Query Engine. LARIAT is delighted to post them as a free public service to filmgoers everywhere.
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The Not Shown Before at a Theater Near You Film Series
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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 Movie Review Query Engine 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

The American[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.

Eat Pray Love[3 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.

The Expendables[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.

The Last Exorcism[2.5 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.

The Other Guys[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.

Piranha 3D[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.

Robin Hood (2010)[2 stars]
Playing at the Wyo Theatre, 309 S. Fifth St., Laramie. Shows at 7 p.m. daily. Rated PG, running time 140 minutes. All tickets $3.

Vampires Suck[1 star]*
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.

Ending this week
(Last show on Thursday)

The following movies are likely to leave town on Friday:

Eat Pray Love[3 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.

Piranha 3D[2.5 stars]*
Playing at the Fox Cinema, 505 S. 20th, leaving Friday -- Click here for links to web sites with local showtimes, runtime and an MPAA rating for this film.

Robin Hood (2010)[2 stars]
Playing at the Wyo Theatre, 309 S. Fifth St., Laramie. Shows at 7 p.m. daily. Rated PG, running time 140 minutes, leaving Friday. All tickets $3.

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

Starting Friday

Starting Friday is the romantic comedy Going the Distance, starring Drew Barrymore and Justin Long. Also opening are the comic book-style action film Machete, starring Danny Trejo, Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba, Lindsay Lohan and Michelle Rodriguez and the comedy Dinner for Schmucks. Returning to Laramie for a second run is Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.

Dinner for Schmucks[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.

Going the Distance[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.

Machete[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.

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time[3 stars]
Playing at the Wyo Theatre, 309 S. Fifth St., Laramie. Shows at 7 p.m. daily. Rated PG-13, running time 116 minutes. All tickets $3.

Albany County Public Library's Not Shown Before at a Theater Near You film series

Sita Sings the Blues[3 stars]

Playing at the Albany County Public Library, Sunday, September 5 at 7:30 p.m. only, free admission and snacks. Sita Sings the Blues: The ancient story of the Ramayana is given new life by pairing it with a modern day romantic relationship, and some wise-cracking shadow figures who explain this seminal Hindu story to western audiences. This animated film by American artist Nina Paley is done to the soundtrack of 1920s American jazz singer Annette Hanshaw. The animation, done in several colorful styles, is as haunting and unusual as the soundtrack. This film won four international awards, including a Gotham Award for “Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You.” It is rated the best movie of 2010 by the critic aggregation site Metacritic.com. Antoinette DeNapoli, who teaches courses in Indian religions at the University of Wyoming, will be on hand to introduce this unique film. Not rated, 82 minutes. For more information on this film series, click on this link to the Not Shown Before at a Theater Near You Film Series.

* Denotes a composite (calculated average) rating, using data found at toptenreviews, or at Metacritic.com, or at the Movie Review Query Engine.

Click here for MRQE reviews of Dinner for Schmucks
Click here for MRQE reviews of Going the Distance
Click here for MRQE reviews of The Last Exorcism
Click here for MRQE reviews of Machete
Click here for MRQE reviews of The Other Guys
Click here for MRQE reviews of Piranha 3D
Click here for MRQE reviews of Vampires Suck
Click here for more reviews and ratings of current and upcoming films at Metacritic.com
Click here for more reviews and ratings of 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

Capitalism: A Love Story[3 stars]
Che (parts 1 and 2)[3 stars]
Drag Me to Hell[3 stars]
Everybody's Fine[3 stars]
The Girlfriend Experience[2 stars]
Goodbye Solo[3 stars]
Humpday[1 star]
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus[3 stars]
In the Loop[3 stars]
The Ister[3 stars]
The Lovely Bones[3 stars]
The Messenger[3 stars]
The Nature of Existence[4 stars]
My Neighbor My Killer[3 stars]
9[2 stars]
Outrage[3 stars]
Police Adjective (Politist, adj.)[1 star]
Silent Light (Stellet Licht)[2 stars]
Sita Sings the Blues[3 stars]
The Stoning of Soraya M.[2 stars]
Summer Hours (L'heure d'été)[3 stars]
That Evening Sun[3 stars]
Trucker[3.5 stars]
Two Lovers[2.5 stars]
Valentino: The Last Emperor[3 stars]
Winter's Bone[4 stars]
Yoo-Hoo Mrs. Goldberg[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 I
J through L   M through N   O through Q   R through S   T through Z

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