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

Despicable Me[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.

Inception[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.

Iron Man 2[2.5 stars]
Playing at the Wyo Theatre, 309 S. Fifth St., Laramie. Shows at 7 p.m. daily. Rated PG-13, running time 124 minutes. All tickets $3.

Ramona and Beezus[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.

Salt[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.

The Sorcerer's Apprentice[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.

Toy Story 3[3.5 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.

Ending this week
(Last show on Thursday, July 29)

The following movie is likely to leave town on Friday:

Toy Story 3[3.5 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.

Starting Friday, July 30

The most likely new film to open on Friday in Laramie is a sequel (surprise) Cats & Dogs: Revenge of Kitty Galore. Less likely to open here are the comedy Dinner for Schmucks, starring Steve Carell and Paul Rudd (based on a French film called, “Le Diner de cons”) and the inspirational dying young story Charlie St. Cloud, starring Zac Efron and Kim Basinger.

Cats & Dogs: Revenge of Kitty Galore[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.

Charlie St. Cloud[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.

Dinner for Schmucks[2.5 stars]*
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

Pirate Radio[2.5 stars]*

Playing at the Albany County Public Library, Sunday, August 1 at 7:30 p.m. only, free admission and snacks. Pirate Radio (AKA The Boat That Rocked): In the 1960s British politicians decided to clamp down on Rock and Roll music by keeping it off the radio most of the time. A group of rebel disc jockeys outfit an old fishing trawler with a transmitter and some antennas and anchor it in international waters, just out of the reach of the government. The Los Angeles Times says the music played on that rocking boat “ ... The Kinks, the Rolling Stones, Hendrix, the Who, the Troggs, the Turtles, the Beach Boys, the Yardbirds, the Seekers ... nearly 60 cuts in all in what may be the coolest music-video masquerading as a movie ever ... it's hard not to feel the love as Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans ... and others in the groovy ensemble spin this somewhat true but mostly tall tale ...” in this 2009 film. Rated R, runs 116 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 Movie Review Query Engine reviews of Cats & Dogs: Revenge of Kitty Galore
Click here for MRQE reviews of Charlie St. Cloud
Click here for MRQE reviews of Dinner for Schmucks
Click here for MRQE reviews of Ramona and Beezus
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

Anvil: The Story of Anvil[4 stars]
Astro Boy[3 stars]
Big Fan[3 stars]
Blood Equity[3.5 stars]
Bright Star[3 stars]
Bronson[3 stars]
The Burning Plain[3.5 stars]
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]
A Serious Man[3 stars]
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]
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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