Back Space Theatre
(1120 Main Ave., 259-7940, www.thebackspacetheatre.org)
Hysteria. HHH Dr. Robert Dalrymple makes a fascinating discovery in Victorian England that makes him very popular with the ladies of the day. Ill leave it at that. (See review this page.) Rated R.
Gaslight Cinema
(102 Fifth St. Next to the railroad depot, 247-8133, www.allentheatresinc.com)
Iron Man 3. HHH½ (In standard format.) Robert Downey Jr. gets another paycheck. A big one. Rated PG-13.42. HHH Its about time someone made a major studio biopic about Jackie Robinson breaking the Major League Baseball color barrier. Relative unknown Chadwick Boseman stars as the history-making Brooklyn Dodger. Rated PG-13.
Durango Stadium 9
(Next to Durango Mall, 247-9799, www.allentheatresinc.com)
A Place at the Table. HHH (Wednesday only) A documentary that reveals how quality, healthy food is becoming more and more out of reach of Americas poor, who can only afford cheap, processed food. Rated PG.Iron Man 3. HHH½ (In standard format and digital 3-D with surcharge.) See above. The fact that its on so many screens explains why Downeys paycheck is so big. Rated PG-13.Pain & Gain. HHH In a truth is stranger than fiction moment, The Rock and Marky Mark play the Florida bodybuilders who turned to a life of violent crime. Somehow its funny, though. Rated R.The Big Wedding. HH Bobby DeNiro is getting soft in his old age. Guess he got comfortable in the dad role during that run of Fokkers movies, because this time hes the patriarch of a family preparing for a big wedding. Rated R.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.Scary Movie V. (No Roeper rating) Making fun of bad movies is a cant-miss formula. The evidence: There are now five of these things. Rated R.Olympus Has Fallen. (No Roeper rating.) A terrorist takes the White House, kidnaps the president, and its up to one man to save the country, the world, etc. What a man. Rated R.The Croods. (No Roeper rating; in standard format and digital 3-D with surcharge.) 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.Oz the Great and Powerful. HH½ (In standard format and digital 3-D with surcharge.) In a backstory of the classic tale, the three witches are among the first to suspect that the wizard (James Franco) might not be all he claims to be. Rated PG.
Ted Holteen, Richard Roeper and Roger Ebert
