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  • Published
    July 27, 2011

    At the Movies

    OPENING FRIDAY “COWBOYS & ALIENS” (PG-13) (1:56) Stars Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford and Olivia Wilde. Directed by Jon Favreau. A spaceship arrives in Arizona, 1873, to take over the Earth, starting with the Wild West region. A posse of cowboys are all that stand in their way. Intense sequences of western and sci-fi action and violence, […]

  • Published
    July 27, 2011
    MOVIE-CRAZYSTUPIDLOVE

    In ‘Crazy, Stupid, Love,’ a strong ensemble cast hits most of its marks

    Its faults include too many issues, too many characters and a contrived and farcical climax.

  • Published
    July 27, 2011

    Yee-haw! Take me to your leader

    The clever premise of 'Cowboys & Aliens' is not quite fulfilled by a story that should have given a great cast more complexity.

  • Published
    July 21, 2011

    Movie Review: Snappy, rapid-fire ‘Friends’ delivers rom-com rewards

    It's like 'No Strings Attached.' Only better.

  • Published
    July 20, 2011

    Bull Moose Top 10

    Top 10 for Portland store July 11-17: 1. “Insidious” (DVD) 2. Incubus, “If Not Now, When?” 3. “Rango” (DVD) 3. Sublime with Rome, “Yours Truly” 3. Gillian Welch, “Harrow & The Harvest” 6. Bon Iver, “Bon Iver” 6. Mumford & Sons, “Sigh No More” 8. “The Lincoln Lawyer” (DVD) 9. Tedeschi Trucks Band, “Revelator” 10. […]

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  • Published
    July 20, 2011

    Movies at the Museum

    “BILL CUNNINGHAM NEW YORK” — Directed by Richard Press. For decades, Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist and New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high society charity soirees for the Times Style section. Documenting uptown fixtures, downtown eccentrics and everyone in between, Cunningham’s enormous body of work is more […]

  • Published
    July 20, 2011

    DVD Releases

    NEW ON DVD AND BLU-RAY: “LIMITLESS,” starring Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro. A luckless, jilted and hopelessly blocked writer (Cooper) finds his miserable situation completely turned on its ear when he’s introduced to NZT, a little-known drug that gives the user access to 100 percent of their brain, enabling Cooper to become an overwhelming […]

  • Published
    July 20, 2011

    At the Drive-Ins

    BRIDGTON TWIN DRIVE-IN, 383 Portland Road, Bridgton; 647-8666. Open nightly. Screen 1: “Captain America: The First Avenger (PG-13) 8:40 p.m.; “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” (PG-13) 10:50 p.m. Screen 2: “Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Part 2 (PG-13) 8:40 p.m.; “Horrible Bosses” (R) 10:55 p.m.  PRIDES CORNER DRIVE-IN, 651 Bridgton Road, Westbrook; 797-3154. Open […]

  • Published
    July 13, 2011

    At the Movies

    OPENING THIS WEEK “HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2” (2:10) (PG-13) Stars Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint. Directed by David Yates. The final chapter begins as Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest of finding and destroying the Dark Lord’s three remaining Horcruxes. Some sequences of intense action violence and frightening […]

  • Published
    July 13, 2011

    DVD Releases

    NEW ON DVD AND BLU-RAY “ARTHUR,” starring Russell Brand and Helen Mirren. Genial if relatively needless remake of the 1981 comedy favorite with the suddenly omnipresent Brand filling in for the sorely missed Dudley Moore as the “Arthur” in question, a perennially soused millionaire whose vast inheritance hangs in the balance when he falls for […]