The Silver Screen: Oct. 13-19
Man, I almost forgot about the movies...
This week's new releases look especially uninspiring. I'm curious about Man of the Year; I've read several reviews that suggest the movie has been marketed incorrectly, and that it's actually a lot more cynical and dark than most people realize. That won't send me racing to the theater, but it might make a difference on whether I stick it in the Netflix queue a few months down the road.
The Malco Pinnacle Hills Cinema 12 has been open for two weeks now, and I still see no sign of overlap between its selections and the selections at Towne Cinema 12. That's a good sign.
The Departed is playing on two Pinnacle screens this week. It's great enough (and long enough) to deserve two screens, so that's okay. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre prequel is also showing on two screens, but it's the hot gory flick of the month (or is that The Grudge 2 or Saw 3?), so they probably aren't losing any money by doubling up.
I was really hoping that The Last King of Scotland would make it to Northwest Arkansas this week. Forest Whitaker's getting a lot of buzz for his portrayal of Idi Amin; bringing the movie to Northwest Arkansas at this point would be a great sign that Malco meant business with this latest theater. But they chose to bring back Accepted and keep the sugar-sweet Everyone's Hero instead.
All the King's Men disappeared quietly after three weeks. Need some context? Step Up, which opened on Aug. 11, and Material Girls (Aug. 18), both roundly and soundly panned, are still alive and kicking at Fiesta Square after two months.