Weekly Alibi
‹‹ May 24 - 30, 2012
From Memorial Day to Labor Day, movie studios will be sending their best fighters to duke it out at your local theater.
- Summer Movie Smackdown
- Batman vs. Spider-Man
- The Animals of Madagascar 3 vs. The Animals of Ice Age 4
- The Avengers’ Hawkeye vs. Brave’s Princess Merida
- Battleship vs. G.I. Joe: Retaliation
- Heavyweight Champion of Summer: Bruce Willis
- Navajo group fights aquifer mine
- Travelog: Gila’s monster fan
- Council Watch: DA talks cop juries
- Answer Me This
- Odds & Ends: Spy bird, Walmart snake, buffet ejection, lie GSW
- Letters: Primary Guide cheers and jeers
- Spotlight: San Pedro punk band Toys That Kill
- Song Roulette: Random Tracks from Double Plow’s Dwayne "Buzzard" Norris
- Flyer on the Wall: Vinyl and Voodoo
It's hard to reconcile Richard Linklater, the young-turk auteur who gave us 1991’s Gen-X manifesto Slacker, with Richard Linklater, the movie industry vet responsible for Jack Black's latest movie, a pleasantly quirky crime comedy called Bernie.
- Film Review: Jack Black does black comedy in Bernie
- Idiot Box: What network shows won’t be coming back in fall?
- Reel World: Broadway Cultural Center goes Bollywood, Carbon Nation airs, summer camp meets cinema
- Week in Sloth: Hatfields & McCoys, “Alien Surf Girls” and “Dogs in the City”
- Film Times and Capsules
