Until last Saturday night, I had never seen "The African Queen," but I was pretty sure it didn't feature four-horse chariots tearing through what looked like the Chiricahuas east of Tucson....
Pointedly strange and whimsical, "O'Horten" mixes the surreal with the mundane in its depiction of the retirement and eventual rebirth of a train engineer. ...
"The Conduit" (Wii, $50, Teen) ...
Catch the 1975 movie that ushered in the era of the summer blockbuster at 7:30 tonight at Cinema La Placita, Downtown. Donate $3 and get popcorn. ...
Even though John Dillinger was captured here, director Michael Mann passed on Tucson as a filming location for "Public Enemies." ...
The blockbuster "Ice Age" movies have, to a one, left me cold....
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It's summer-movie business as usual with "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen"...
Thanks in part to the efforts of Peter Catalanotte, the Phoenix resort scenes in "Away We Go" were actually shot on Tucson's West Side. ...
"Away We Go" feels like notes toward a draft of a screenplay. Most of the necessary material is there. ...
"My Sister's Keeper" is a horror movie for parents and a righteous weeper that earns its tears. Directed with a sure, sensitive hand by Nick Cassavetes ("The Notebook"), it is an actors' showcase built on a moral dilemma. But at its most basic, it's just a good cry. ...
Shelli Hall, director of the Tucson Film Office, is excited that the two biggest movies filmed in Tucson last year both open this week. ...
"Anvil! The Story of Anvil" had me half-convinced that it was a documentary about an actual heavy-metal band in Canada. ...
"Public Enemies," starring Johnny Depp as John Dillinger, wasn't filmed in Tucson. But that's not stopping Hotel Congress from throwing a gangster party anyway next week. ...
Ghostbusters: The Video Game (360, PS3, $60, Teen) ...
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The following titles were released Tuesday on DVD: ...