By Marc Fortier
Staff Writer
MANCHESTER — Moo Moo Evans’ first exposure to the Harlem Globetrotters came while watching Scooby-Doo cartoons as a kid.
“That was my first time ever seeing them,” he said of the team’s mid-’70s …
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Reviews of films playing in the area
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In theaters now
(Ratings based on 4-star system.)
‘Alice in Wonderland’
Rated PG
★★★
Director Tim Burton’s new extravaganza, the second Disney-backed “Alice” and a bookend to the cheerily benign 1951 animated version, won’t be for everyone. It’s a little rough for preteens, and it doesn’t throw many laughs the audience’s way, but along with “Sweeney Todd,” this is Burton’s most interesting project in a decade. Wonderfully well-chosen Australian actress Mia Wasikowska plays Alice, and Johnny Depp continues his fruitfully nervy collaboration with Burton by playing the Mad Hatter.
Greg Vellante
Correspondent
As a film about war, “Green Zone” is anything but authentic. Director Paul Greengrass attempts to mesh the excitement of films like his “Bourne” series with the topical importance of his masterpiece, “United 93,” …
By the writers of Last Word Features
(based on a 5-star rating)
Gorillaz: ‘Plastic Beach’ (Virgin)
★★★★
The electro/hip-hop/soul/pop bubbles and simmers in some of the tightest, most melodic songs the Gorillaz have produced on “Plastic Beach,” the cartoon …
San Francisco Chronicle
‘SHALL WE KISS?’ (2007. NOT RATED. MUSIC BOX FILMS. $29.95.)
Two strangers meet in Nantes, France. He lives there, and she is passing through. At the end of the evening, he goes to kiss …
DOVER — The Children’s Museum of New Hampshire will celebrate its first-ever Irish Heritage Day on Sunday, March 21, from noon to 5 p.m. This family-friendly event comes on the heels of St. Patrick’s Day …
I am a coupon queen.
I wasn’t always. In fact, it’s not even a title I gave myself. But two years ago, I completely changed the way I shopped for groceries for my family. Perhaps you’ve seen stories in the news about some frugal person gleefully purchasing hundreds of dollars worth of groceries for pennies.
Ratings based on four-star system.
‘The Book of Eli’
Rated R
★★★
The latest in a wave of post-apocalyptic films is this sly “Mad Max”-y sort of Western, pitting Denzel Washington as a high plains drifter with God on …
Ratings based on four-star system.
‘The Book of Eli’
Rated R
★★★
The latest in a wave of post-apocalyptic films is this sly “Mad Max”-y sort of Western, pitting Denzel Washington as a high plains drifter with God on …
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