Movies

Plan for next weekend's Sun Valley Film Festival

This Australian Aboriginal girl group in the 1960s is featured in "The Sapphires," part of the Sun Valley Film Festival.

You'll feel a little like a Hollywood insider on the streets of Ketchum next week at the Sun Valley Film Festival. The second annual festival features intimate coffee talks with industry pros, apres-screening parties and more than 60 films, including...

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OUTDOORS

Boise fly fishing duo brings comedy to the river

Hank Patterson is the funniest man in fly fishing. OK, maybe that’s setting the bar a little low, but a low bar is how “Hank Patterson” came to be.
MOVIES

Backcountry Film Festival returns to Egyptian Theatre in Boise

Prepare to get fired up for ski season. The Winter Wildlands Alliance is throwing the first celluloid punch this year with the 8th annual Backcountry Film Festival. (Warren Miller’s big-screen bonanza shows up later this month.) Films slated to hit the Egyptian Theatre include Sweetgrass ...
MOVIES

‘Taken 2’ takes the money and runs

“Taken,” the enormously successful 2008 thriller in which a retired agent gets his kidnapped teenage daughter back, was an explosion of middle-age machismo. Seeing Liam Neeson dish out some skull-cracking, back-snapping payback to every young thug in Paris proved to be a rollicking...
MOVIES

Mustangs are mastered in heart-tugging documentary

Like last year’s “Buck,” the documentary “Wild Horse, Wild Ride” is saddled with so much pathos that it shouldn’t be able to move; but with a large cast of two- and four-legged characters to share the load, it saunters into our hearts.
MOVIES

Burton revives ‘Frankenweenie’ to great effect for new film

“Frankenweenie” is darned near an instant classic. Tim Burton has taken the animated short that launched his career and expanded it into a vivid and moving essay on science and love — the love a budding middle-school scientist, Victor Frankenstein, has for his dog, Sparky.
MOVIE REVIEWS

‘Step Up’ and it pays off

“Step Up Revolution” taps into the dance “flash mob” phenomenon and moves to Miami to give us the sunniest and most entertaining of these kids-gotta-dance musicals.
MOVIE REVIEWS

‘Bernie’: The most likable murderer you’ll ever meet

The funny and beguiling “Bernie” recounts the real life and curious case of Bernard Tiede (Jack Black), an assistant funeral director who became a pillar of the community in Carthage, Texas.
MOVIE REVIEWS

‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’ is a cinematic miracle

Hushpuppy (Quvenzhane Wallis) spends a lot of time on the water, traveling through territory dubbed the Bathtub on a motorized raft alongside her father, Wink (Dwight Henry). Wink seems perpetually disgruntled — maybe it’s the southern Louisiana humidity, maybe it’s something ...
MOVIE REVIEWS

‘The Watch’ returns to the ‘Burbs’ for a few R-rated laughs

It’s good to see Vince Vaughn back riding that Red Bull. He’s lost the “fat and self-satisfied” look of recent films. The caffeine is back, and so is the breathless manic patter.
ENTERTAINMENT

Enjoy family time at the movies this summer

The Reel Theatre’s Family Days in the Summer program is back. All three Treasure Valley locations will show current G- and PG-rated movies at 10 a.m. Mondays and Wednesdays. You’ll fork over only 50 cents to watch 2D movies, $2.50 for 3D. Plus, with each ticket purchased, you’...