The Bel Air Town Commissioner’s are expected to discuss the Rockfield Foundation Lease and an ordinance codifying certain development regulations during their Monday night meeting. Also Monday night, the town commissioners will announce several upcoming public events including September’s Lunch Time Open Air Concerts, the Bel Air Police Department & Bel Air Lions Club’s Child […]
Getting There: The Plumpton Park Zoo Documentary
The scene is set, actors are in their places, and Jimmy, the star of the production, is ready for his close up. It’s a good thing the film crew brought their zoom lens. Jimmy, a giraffe, is among the many animals who live at Plumpton Park Zoo in Cecil County, and who star in a […]
Bel Air Film Festival Kicks Off With Baltimore Colts Marching Band Documentary
The Town of Bel Air Film Festival literally and figuratively ‘kicked off’ Friday night with the showing of Barry Levinson’s documentary “The Band That Wouldn’t Die” playing to a half-filled Reckord Armory. The film deals with the Baltimore Colts’ Marching Band and how they continued to March and play and perform throughout the NFL despite […]
2nd Annual Bel Air Film Festival Kicks off at Bel Air Armory October 22-24
From Harford Center for the Arts: The Bel Air Cultural Arts Commission announces the 2010 Town of Bel Air Film Festival to be held October 22-24, 2010 at the Bel Air Reckord Armory, 37 North Main Street in Bel Air. This year’s movie lineup features intriguing, moving, and thought provoking films from around the world. […]
Movie Review: ‘Going the Distance’
(Jessica Miglio/Warner Bros.) Long-distance relationships are the center of study in Going the Distance, Warner Bros’ unexpectedly bawdy, often quite funny end-of-summer entry. But the film itself struggles to survive at least as much as its bicoastal pair of leading lovers. You see, it’s hard out there for a romantic comedy. In the age of […]
Movie Review: ‘The American’
(Giles Keyte/Focus) It requires careful skill to be an assassin: exemplary marksmanship, precision in movement, and certainty in intention. The same can be said of successful filmmaking, and even of convincing performance. It’s a good thing, then, that Focus Features’ The American, a meticulously crafted, retro-styled exercise in vigilance and meditation, subsists on those who […]
Movie Review: ‘Eat Pray Love’
It’s quite ironic that Eat Pray Love, the film adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert’s bestselling memoir, is being pegged as “boring” or “uneventful.” It is in these very qualities—the estimations of our immediate perceptions, or reactions from a persistent quest for superficial gratification—that the film cautions against placing value. Rather, Eat Pray Love champions soul-searching in […]
Weekend Movie Review: ‘Dinner for Schmucks’
(Merie Weismiller Wallace/Paramount) This weekend, Paramount Pictures invites you to a Dinner for Schmucks. If I were you, I wouldn’t be so quick to RSVP. Paul Rudd plays Tim, an earnest financial analyst hoping to fill a recently vacated upper-level position. His boss (Bruce Greenwood) is all but ready to give it to him, too, […]