Stage & Screen

Even when done well, the romantic comedy is easy to pick on. They're so earnest and full of clichés and unrealistic fairy tale standards.

Movies playing at Harkins Theatres, 7202 Pav Way, Prescott Valley (Highway 69 between Glassford Hill and Lake Valley roads), as of press time.

Not to kick off this review with a spoiler alert, but after seeing "What Men Want" the answer to what men want is probably the same as what women want: Not to be ripped off by yet another dubious rom-com like this.

The “New York Daily News” said she “makes a diverse musical statement,” The “Wall Street Journal” called her “one of the most versatile and imposing musicians of her generation and “Vanity Fair” called her a millennial who is “shaking up the jazz world.”

Stan & Ollie is a film to see if you remember and loved the comic duo, Laurel & Hardy, or even if you didn’t love them. The outstanding portrayal of the two men — makeup, posture and especially the acting together almost made me believe that I was watching the legendary pair themselves.

It’s complicated. That would be a more fitting title for “Miss Bala,” a remix of the much more impassioned and riveting, “Miss Bala” (2011)

Prescott Center for the Arts is putting on Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire” with showings beginning next week.

The year was 1969 – Woodstock happened, the Beatles gave their last performance, Led Zeppelin released their first two albums and The Who performed “Tommy” for the first time.

The Sedona International Film Festival will present the Northern Arizona premiere of the critically-acclaimed “At Eternity’s Gate” Feb. 1-6 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre.

Tas Cru, a touring blues player out of upstate New York whose songs have been described as raucous, rowdy, gentle, sweet, eccentric, quirky and outright irreverent, is performing next week with His Band of Tortured Souls.

Movies playing at Harkins Theatres, 7202 Pav Way, Prescott Valley (Highway 69 between Glassford Hill and Lake Valley roads), as of press time.

Everything else that's happening in the Prescott area, Feb. 1-10, 2019.

The premise for "Arctic " is so simple it's almost silly to describe: Stranded man tries to survive.

"The LEGO Movie" is a hard act to follow. Its world was so fresh and vibrant and unexpected, and I'm pleased to report that "The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part " is pretty darn good

The elevator pitch for Steven Knight's "Serenity" would be: "'Key Largo' meets 'Westworld.'" And it's every bit as ridiculous as that sounds.

"C-Bar 2,” the sequel to the locally made 2015 film, “C-Bar,” is set to premiere next weekend at the Yavapai College Performing Arts Center.

Everything else that's happening, Jan. 25-Feb. 3, 2019.

Council going to do some good things in the future, Tom Agostino says.

Paula Poundstone, comedienne and regular panelist on the NPR comedy news quiz show “Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!,” is bringing her brand of observational comedy back to Prescott for a show at the Yavapai College Performing Arts Center this weekend.

Movies playing at Harkins Theatres, 7202 Pav Way, Prescott Valley (Highway 69 between Glassford Hill and Lake Valley roads), as of press time.

The Arthurian legend gets a modern and more youthful spin in "The Kid Who Would Be King," a surprisingly delightful film full of action, heart, a crazy-haired Patrick Stewart (as "old" Merlin) and a few genuinely good gags, and it really couldn't have come at a better time.

Oscar voters on Tuesday showered Alfonso Cuaron's "Roma" and Yorgos Lanthimos' "The Favourite" with a leading 10 nominations for the 91st Academy Awards, while two dominant but contentious Hollywood forces — Netflix and Marvel — each scored their first best picture nomination.

View a list of the nominees for the 91st Academy Awards.

LOS ANGELES — For documentary filmmakers, there's no place like the Sundance Film Festival.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — As a child, Fred Lincoln "Link" Wray, Jr. hid under a bed when the Ku Klux Klan came to his parent's home in rural North Carolina. Racist groups often targeted the poor family of Shawnee Native American ancestry as the Wrays endured segregation in the American South just like African-Americans.