Back Space Theatre
(1120 Main Ave., 259-7940, www.thebackspacetheatre.org)
Damsels in Distress. HHH. A comedy in which some college girls try to make better their male counterparts, with mixed results. Rated PG-13.
Gaslight Cinema
(102 Fifth St. Next to the railroad depot, 247-8133, www.allentheatresinc.com)
Mud. HHH½ Two teen boys befriend a fugitive (Matthew McConaughey) and help him evade the law and find his gal (Reese Witherspoon). Rated PG-13.
Iron Man 3. HHH½ (In standard format.) Robert Downey, Jr. gets another paycheck. A big one. Rated PG-13.
Durango Stadium 9
(Next to Durango Mall, 247-9799, www.allentheatresinc.com)
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. (Sunday and Tuesday only.) The Royal Ballet’s staging of Lewis Carroll’s story has some of the world’s finest dancers in the roles of Alice, the Queen of Hearts and other familiar characters. Not rated.
Divorce Invitation. (Wednesday only; no Roeper rating.) A man reunites with his high school sweetheart and realizes she really is the one, but he’s got a hefty pre-nup with his current wife who’s not interested in letting him out. Not rated.
Star Trek Into Darkness. HHH (In standard format and digital 3-D with surcharge.) Another prequel wherein a young Kirk (Chris Pine) goes on an intergalactic manhunt to stop a bad guy. He would go on to do this many times. (See review this page.) Rated PG-13.
The Great Gatsby. HHH½ (In standard format and digital 3-D with surcharge.) Leo stars as Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age playboy with all kinds of cinematic spectacle. Rated PG-13.
Peeples. (No Roeper rating) Craig Robinson plays a man who wants to marry David Alan Grier’s daughter and pops the question during a big family reunion. Rated PG-13.
Iron Man 3. HHH½ (In standard format and digital 3-D with surcharge.) See above. The fact that it’s still on so many screens explains why Downey’s paycheck is so big. Rated PG-13.
Oblivion. HHH Tom Cruise plays a future military guy assigned to an outpost on some planet, and then he finds out a secret or something. Rated PG-13.
The Croods. (No Roeper rating.) An animated film in which a family of prehistoric people go on an adventure. Fortunately for us, they were among the few English-speaking Cro-Magnons. Rated PG.
Ted Holteen, Richard Roeper and Roger Ebert
