ARIZONA REPORTER
Beautiful rainy weather this week should kick the winter trout fishing up a notch or two, but an expected high pressure system this weekend could change things. That's the ups-and-downs of winter fishing in Arizona. I guess another front is due on Sunday or Monday, so we'll have to see what happens. ...
Nashville, TENN - Critically-acclaimed Kevin Costner & Modern West will take center stage with a concert tour that's scheduled to launch this spring in Lakeland, Florida. Academy Award-winning Costner co-founded the rock/country band after being encouraged by his wife, Christine, to reconnect with ...
Blockbuster, Eastman Kodak, and Borders - what do they all have in common? All these business giants failed, but why? Like many analysts, you could come up with a number of logical reasons for their plight - they did not create new products that kept them competitive, failed to embrace the power o ...
It's such a cliche that I hesitate to use it but with some documentaries, truth is stranger than fiction. Who would believe that the guy shown in the opening scene of Don Argott and Demian Fento's "Last Days Here"--in his fifties with gray hair, a pock-marked face, scabs all over his body from pick ...
On January 14, Stand Up And Stand Proud.org., in cooperation with the Mesa Marketplace Swap Meet, the Mesa Police Department, the Apache Junction Police Department, The Mining Camp Restaurant and Trading Post, and Superstition Harley-Davidson in Apache Junction will have completed their Third Annual ...
A delightful book, "The Borrowers" by Mary Norton published in 1953, is now a lavish movie with Japanese style animation splashed with the colors of the rainbow. "The Borrowers," which posits that tiny people live hidden form humankind beneath the floors of a quiet country house in England, gets a ...
Human life in sewers has been in the news. Not so long ago, Saddam Hussein was found in a make-shift ditch with a growth of beard that he kept up through his trial and execution. In October of this year, Libyan dictator Muamar Gadhafi was flushed out of a drainpipe and summarily executed. But not al ...
Los Angeles, Calif. - You can't keep a good band down, and in the case of Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real that means they will be continuing on their road warrior status with a new string of tour dates set for early 2012. Opening for Willie Nelson on March 6 at Desert Diamond Casino in Sahuarita ...
No cinephile could possibly watch this movie without thinking of Jacques Tati (1908-82), a French director, who may well have been the inspiration for the Belgo-Canadian-French directors of "The Fairy." Tati's theme, like that portrayed by Buster Keaton, is that individual personality is warped by ...
You've got nifty car chases, car crashes, explosions, fist fights, loud gunfire, jumping from roof to roof: what more can a movie lover ask for? Oh, there's more: a top cast including the fabulous Denzel Washington, who can do no wrong, handsome Ryan Reynolds who knows how to grimace and sweat and ...
The other day Jon Stewart's guest on the comedian's Daily Show was Brad Pitt. After announcing his name, the audience burst into sustained applause, to which Jon replied (comically) "No, not that Brad Pitt: he's an insurance salesman in Poughkeepsie." Insurance salesmen, then, are in a category th ...
In 1943 during W.W.II, the Jews of Lvov (now Lviv in Ukraine but then part of Poland), were under siege. Crammed into a ghetto, they're relentlessly hunted and brutally killed. A desperate group led by wealthy Ignacy and Pauline Chiger (Herbert Knaup, Maria Schrader) and their two young children and ...
Like Dr. Richard Kimble in 'The Fugitive,' Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington) is on the run. Frost is a rogue C.I.A. agent-turned-traitor who suddenly appears at the U.S. Consulate in Cape Town, South Africa. When he's dispatched to a company safe house for interrogation, it's under the aegis of ambiti ...
Oscar-nominated as Best Documentary, this exhilarating 3-D entry by German filmmaker Wim Wenders ("Wings of Desire,' 'Buena Vista Social Club") celebrates legendary choreographer Pina Bausch. ...
Blending adolescent fantasy and a timely commentary about bulling with the 'found-footage' concept popularized in 'The Blair Witch Project' and 'Cloverfield,' this is a mock documentary about three teenagers who discover they have acquired mysterious superpowers. ...
Hammer horror is back! After producing low-budget, gothic classics like "The Curse of Frankenstein," "The Phantom of the Opera" and "Horror of Dracula," featuring actors like Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, Britain's Hammer Films disappeared 30 years ago, but it's re-emerged recently under corpor ...
