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01.29-02.05 meet the team PUBLISHER/EDITOR IN CHIEF Chris Shepperd EXECUTIVE EDITOR Matt Shepperd EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Sara Gilmore BUSINESS MANAGER Leisha Shepperd MANAGING EDITOR Chris Zebo CREATIVE DIRECTOR Bekah Skinner ASST. CREATIVE DIRECTOR Kaitlin Vickers WRITERS
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Feature:
Switchfoot’s Jon Foreman compares music to 6 surfing, solo to full band, and Christian rock to rockers who are Christian.
Randle Browning Sara Gilmore Cheyenne Mueller Luke Murray Jenuine Poetess INTERNS Haley Clark Katy DeLuna April Elkins Alex Gieger Brittany Holm Megan Ingram Avery Moore Kelly Porter Heydy Sanches Kyla Spaugh Camille Youngblood
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Taste 9 -Asian fried Quinoa
with kale is heart healthy, packed with nutrients, and light yet filling.
Listen 4 - The Boss is back,
but is he still the iconic working class hero? Read this week’s music reviews.
Look 15 - Cheyenne gives a rundown of this week’s top 20 box office films.
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Kyle Park set a standard for live entertainment. He enlivens the crowd with his contagious stage presence, witty lyricism, and swingin’ music—similar to other Texas ountry legends before him, such as Robert Earl Keen, Lyle Lovett, and Willie Nelson—but with a youthful swagger only he can muster. Park is also a fan of his fans. After concerts, he’s known to mingle with the crowd to sign autographs and to take pictures.
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Park hails from the Austin area, where he started his career, and he didn’t take the easiest route to establish himself. He didn’t search out a record deal but instead decided to take his career completely into his own hands, creating Kyle Park Music. With his own label, he released his first album in 2005, Big Time, and has been working hard ever since. His new hit single, “Fit for a King”, is currently in the top ten on the Texas Music Chart. The song is a homage to country legend George Strait. His most recent album, Beggin’ for More, has been road tested on tour lately, and he’ll be performing songs from the album and his catalog at Wild West on Friday, January 31 at 8pm. wacoweekly.com • January 29, 2014 • WACO WEEKLY • p 3
By Katy De Luna and Kyla Spaugh
A Great Big World Album: Is There Anybody Out There?
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Rating: Sounds Like: Ben Folds Fun Glee
Track Listing:
Rockstar Land of Opportunity Already Home I Really Want It Say Something You’ll Be Okay Everyone is Gay There is an Answer I Don’t Wanna Love Somebody This is the New Year Shorty Don’t Wait Cheer Up!
If getting noticed by a huge pop star isn’t enough, Aguilera asked if she could collaborate on the song. Soon after, the duo and Aguilera performed it together on NBC’s The Voice and “Say Something”skyrocketed to number one on iTunes. Exposure kept coming in 2013: they had a song featured on Glee and they performed at The American Music Awards and The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. Now, A Great Big World has released their first major label album. Their sound is certifiable pop (Sara Bareilles, Gavin DeGraw, and Phillip Phillips), but you can hear traces of classic rock and even Broadway fused into some tracks.
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Last year proved to be a big one for Ian Axel and Chad Vaccarino, the pair behind A Great Big World. The two singer/songwriters were able to produce a platinumselling hit single, “Say Something”, and while climbing the charts, the single caught the attention of fellow musicians, including one Christina Aguilera.
Say Something Rockstar Land of Opportunity
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Recommended Tracks
Graham Colton
“Lonely Ones”
Release Date: Jan. 21, 2014 If you are looking for gooey love songs, then keep moving. Colton has been in the music business since 2002, with the Graham Colton Band, Sooner The Sunset, and on his own. Now, Colton has said he is in a new stage of life and pulls inspiration from more than just love these days. Lonely Ones is a compilation of Flaming Lips and Counting Crows inspired indie pop-rock, and Colton was inspired to create the album when he went back home to Oklahoma and reconnected with the music scene there. Wayne Coyne, front man for the Flaming Lips, convinced him to make Lonely Ones with keyboards in mind, and that’s just what he did. This album has a much different sound than Colton’s past efforts, and his transformation from melodic pop to indie pop-rock will be noticeable to fans. Change can be weird or different, but change can also be good. In this case, it’s good.
Bruce Springsteen
“High Hopes”
Release Date: Jan. 21, 2014 High Hopes is simultaneously a return of a legend and a venture into uncharted territory. Although it’s The Boss’s eighteenth studio album, High Hopes is also a first. The release is composed entirely of cover songs performed live, of previously unreleased decade-old material, and older pieces given new lives. Featuring a seemingly unlikely partnership with Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello, the collaboration feels surprisingly natural, an innovative continuation of Springsteen’s storied musical legacy. A clear ode to glory days passed, “The Ghost of Tom Joad” is no longer a dusty relic of Springsteen’s 1995 album but a revamped ballad in which he and Morello take turns on guitar solos and singing. The working class hero refreshes his signature rock and soul sound without watering it down to keep up with the times. Instead, he proves how his own style is timeless.
Mogwai
“Rave Tapes”
Release Date: Jan. 20, 2014 Mogwai, the Scottish post-rock band formed in Glasgow in 1995, returns with their eighth album. Characterized by its electronic flourishes, Rave Tapes is anchored heavily in vintage synths, which adds a sense of forward-looking nostalgia to the group’s sonic repertoire. The ten tracks are a follow-up to Mogwai’s 2013 soundtrack for the French TV show Les Revenants. A rather reflective album for an already introspective group, Rave Tapes speaks loudly of Mogwai’s recent turn away from experimentation and boundary-pushing and more towards the comfort of their own style. It wraps up with a trio of songs that allude to their other albums, with whispered lyrics layered over solid melodies. Essential and defining songs are “Remurdered” and “The Lord Is Out of Control.”
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Exclusive Interview with Switchfoot Frontman Jon Foreman By Sara Gilmore and Kelly Porter
Having just released the band’s ninth studio album, and in the middle of a 48-show tour, Switchfoot’s Jon Foreman will break away from the tour to grace Waco for “An Evening with Jon Foreman” at Common Grounds this Friday. The band released Fading West this month, accompanied by a film that followed them on their last world tour and chasing waves as they surfed around the globe. Ironically, our first interview with Jon was postponed because a surfing accident left him with a face full of stitches. But we did finally get to chat with him — about surfing, music, family faith and how you can be involved in helping build the set list for Friday’s show at Common Grounds.
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WW: OK, we have to ask you about your surfing accident. How are you doing? JF: Yeah, I’ll be fine. A little more stitches than I had hoped. But, you know, you got to pay to play. WW: You guys released this film in December that goes with the album you just released this month, kind of following you as you play music and surf all over the world. What’s the connection for you between surfing, your music, and your life that makes surfing such a huge part of who you are and what you do? JF: I think surfing and music are both places of release and self expression where there are no rules, and you can find a different form of freedom that you can’t anywhere else.
Where's one of the most uncomfortable places you’ve brought your music to? How was it received? JF: We have opened up for a lot of bands that might surprise people. We have opened for Static-X, and obviously the film that we were on in Australia, and so those are shows that I think, for me, that might be surprising for people. For me, you know, even if I’m not a fan of the band in general or maybe it’s not the style of music I want to put on for my daughter and me when we’re waking up in the morning, there’s always something that I can learn from it. And I think those are the things that are surprising; that it’s not the differences, but what we have in common. The craziest show we’ve ever had, the one we
checks and you’re actually co-creating. You’re certainly not the creator with the capital C, but you’re embarking on an endeavor, you’re using the building blocks that have been given to you by the author of time and space. For me, when I’m writing a song, I’m not really thinking about the differences between us. Again, I don’t really see…when I go to the church, I see hurting people, when I play bars, I see hurting people. We’re all in desperate need of a Savior, and the groups that we put ourselves into mean a lot less to the creator than they do to us. As far as when I’m writing a song, I think I’m writing first and foremost for myself. WW: Who are some of your favorite songwriters?
“I think that music, for me, is mere tuning a song with words; to some degree you have a beautiful endeavor of cosigning God’s blank checks and you’re actually co-creating. ” - JON FOREMAN, SWITCHFOOT LEAD SINGER WW: Where does the title “Fading West” come from?
were the most nervous for, was opening up for Napalm Death in the UK. That was a tough one.
JF: We grew up on surf movies in the summer, where it’s just basically a couple of guys chasing waves around the world. We liked the idea of fading west, following the sun, the kind of old school aesthetic that the term has.
WW: What made it so tough? The fans that were there?
WW: In the film, fans get to see you guys on a journey, chasing waves around the world and playing music, but also living in the tension of being husbands and fathers, being away from home to do your jobs as a band. What have you learned over the years about staying sane in your marriage and your family while still doing your job. How do you balance the two while you’re gone? JF: I think the biggest thing that I’ve learned is to run the marathon, not the sprint. By that I mean, don’t let the little problems that you face in the hour in daily life cast a shadow over the larger joys that you have, over the course of the years. WW: We watched the film this week, and one of the favorite things said was, “We bring the songs we believe into uncomfortable places, because we feel like that’s where they need to be heard.”
JF: Yeah, Napalm Death is kind of a--especially over there--it was definitely a clashing of styles. WW: A lot of people want to call Switchfoot a Christian rock band, but really you guys are Christians who make up a rock band. It’s evident that your lyrics come from a place of faith, though. In your writing, what does it look like to weave truth into your songs without really writing Christian worship songs?
JF: Well, I love anyone who tells a great story and has a great melody. From Bob Dylan to Miles Davis to Dr. Dog, and Elliott Smith. You know, I think there’s so many. Music is at a beautiful place right now where there’s so many great new ways to be inspired, and I’m really excited that a lot of stuff is getting heard not only on the internet but even on the radio. WW: It seems like the songs you’ve written as a solo artist are a little bit more worshipful and written blatantly about God. What prompted the separation of the two six years ago when you did Limbs and Branches? JF: I think Switchfoot is a little bit more of a
backdrop and the solo endeavors are a lot more of a whisper. And with that in mind, it’s a lot easier to kind of tell a secret and have that kind of song, keeping in an environment where you’re not pounding away with drums and electric guitars. WW: So you’re about to head out on tour with Switchfoot all the way through April, but you also break off and do solo shows once in a while, one of which will be in Waco. Aside from the obvious fact that you’re alone without the band and singing your own songs, what would you say defines the solo Jon Foreman from Jon Foreman the lead singer of Switchfoot? JF: For one, I’m going to bring my best friend Keith that plays the cello. He is amazing and brings so much to the table. For me, again, it’s a chance to kind of talk story, and we write the set list pretty much every night for Swithfoot, but with Keith, there are even less rules. WW: You obviously have Limbs and Branches and the four EPs as a solo artist, but when you play alone, do you do some Switchfoot stuff as well? JF: Yeah, sometimes. You know, that’s the great thing. Again, it doesn’t really matter. The other day, we covered “Royals” by Lorde. So, the other thing is, anything can happen and there are less instruments, so there’s less rehearsal and it’s basically off the cuff. It’ s a beautiful thing. WW: I saw a video on your Instagram of you covering “Royals.” Any fun covers you’ve been working on that we might see here in Waco? JF: Tell folks to tweet me and tell me what they want to hear.
JF: I think that’s a larger question, because first you have to define what worship is. I might argue that all music is worship. By that I mean, what you do with your life is ascribing more to what you invest your time in. If you spend a lot of time on your phone, you’re ascribing more worship to that. Anything can become, by that definition, some form of idol or deity or ultimate worth in your life. I think that music, for me, is mere tuning a song with words; to some degree you have a beautiful endeavor of cosigning God’s blank
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By Haley Clark Chiefly Palomino is a trio straight out of Waco, consisting of members Art Wellborn, Blake Sherman, and Sammy Rajaratnam. The rock n’ roll group’s first show was at Common Grounds, so it’s only fitting that they return and rock there again. The Lonely Hunter is currently on their album release tour for their new album, When Winter Comes. The indie rock group will be releasing new music this month. Joining The Lonely Hunter on tour is fellow artist Lindsay Harris. Harris is a singer/ songwriter whose 2011 EP, Lemon Tree, blends pop, rock, and jazz. Her jazz and folk tunes have already caught the eye of some corporations and some are soundtracks for AT&T and Nabisco commercials. Her newest EP, The Wedding, was released in December of last year. The three bands will be performing at Common Grounds on February 1.
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It’s the end of January, and as I mentioned last week, that means I should be encouraging you to hang on to your New Year’s resolutions, to cling to those newly-formed habits, to keep saying “no” to those cupcakes and grilled cheese sandwiches. The problem is that I’m not very passionate about resolutions that cut all of the creativity out of eating. Of course, I think meal plans have their place, and I think plenty of people enjoy and see results from following diets and cleanses. For the food-obsessed like me, though, the excitement of creating something new and unexpected and sharing it with friends is one of my greatest sources of joy. Instead of putting that in jeopardy, I’ve found a different way to make healthy choices. This year, I’ve decided to add to my bag of tricks instead of eliminating foods that are deemed bad by diets and cleanses out there. In place of “cutting out pasta,” I’m adding more exotic grains to the pantry, like spelt or the quinoa I use in this recipe. Instead of trying to stifle my love of cheese, I’m cooking with new vegetables, spices, and sauces that weren’t part of my repertoire. Keeping tons of grains and vegetables on hand makes pulling together weeknight meals, like this one, super easy. Starting new “good” habits, I’ve found, is a lot more fun than trying to quit the “bad” ones. Don’t get me wrong, I can still be found shoveling popcorn, but at least my new philosophy has me thinking about healthy choices, even if I don’t always make them.
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•••••• Randle Browning is a food writer and photographer who grew up in Houston, graduated from Baylor in 2010, and studied and worked in kitchens in New England and the UK before coming back to Waco. When she’s not blogging, you can find her at Shorty’s Pizza Shack, where she slings pizza dough and serves frothy pints with her husband. Find her food blog online at crandlecakes.com.
Asian Fried Quinoa with Kale (Serves 1*) Quinoa, is a gluten-free, protein-packed grain that I find is highly versatile. Tip for first time quinoa cookers: soak dry quinoa for several hours, then rinse before cooking. This reduces cook time and prevents any bitter flavors from coming through in the final product. For real, soaking quinoa is a gamechanger. *Double or even quadruple this recipe to suit your needs Ingredients: 2 Tablespoons olive or vegetable oil ¼ cup onion, diced 1 garlic clove, sliced ¼ teaspoon ground ginger ¼ teaspoon pepper flakes (optional) 2 cups thinly sliced kale (tough ribs removed and discarded) ¼ cup chopped carrots (about 1-cm cubes work well) ¼ cup frozen green peas 1 cup cooked quinoa 1 egg 1 Tablespoon soy sauce (use the gluten-free kind if desired) 1 teaspoon sesame oil for garnish (optional) Sriracha or sambal oelek
longer icy and carrots are beginning to soften (about 4-5 minutes), add kale and wilt slightly, about 3 minutes (for softer kale, cook up to 6 minutes). At this stage, I add about 2 tablespoons of water because the vegetables begin to stick. If you need to add water at this stage, make sure it fully evaporates before moving on.
Directions: 1. In large skillet, heat olive oil over medium-high heat. Sweat onion for 1-2 minutes, then add garlic. When translucent but not browned, add carrots and peas. When peas are bright green and no
4. Just as egg finishes cooking, stir in soy sauce and remove from heat.
2. When vegetables are softened, add quinoa, stir, and let sit 1 minute to brown a bit. Stir and let sit again 1 more minute. 3. When quinoa is warmed through and crisped on some spots, make a well in the middle of the pan and crack the egg into it. Scramble the egg in the well and then mix it into the quinoa (about 30 seconds.)
5. Serve immediately with a drizzle of sesame oil and sriracha or sambal oelek.
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Roadtrips and Getaways Within a Day’s Drive A Walk on the Wild Side: Austin’s Graffiti Park By Kelly Porter
Imagine a free, outdoor contemporary art museum that rotates its exhibits every week and that gives some of Texas’ most talented artists an entire park as a canvas to paint anything they desire. You’ve just imagined Austin’s graffiti park. Although it’s really less of a park and more of a deserted building site, every inch of the “park” is covered in spray paint. Because anybody is allowed to come out and paint, the park is constantly transforming – everyday presents another opportunity for a new work of art to appear. Austin’s al fresco art haven is located on Baylor Street and features everything from tags to murals. Be sure to wear tennis shoes, as the park tends to accumulate trash left behind from past artists. You’ll also want to be prepared to climb different levels of the park grounds and check out every inch of artwork. In every corner and crevice, you’re sure to find a colorful piece left behind by a creative soul, some pieces that have dried only minutes before you arrived. Who knows, you might even end up leaving your own mark there. If it’s a great view of the city skyline you’re after, the graffiti park offers just that. Climb your way up to the top level and a beautiful Austin skyline emerges before your eyes. And while your perusing the “gallery,” many artists are also onsite selling prints on canvas, wood, and other materials you can take home with you. If you want to see some more examples of local street art in Austin, check out these other spots, too: the “Hi, How Are You” frog and the “I love you so much” graffiti at Jo’s Coffee. The “Hi, How Are You” frog is a local favorite and can be found on the corner of 21st and Guadalupe. The artist of the piece, illustrator-musician Daniel Johnston, was the subject of the documentary “The Devil and Daniel Johnston” in 2006. The documentary follows Johnston, who is manic-depressive, as he does what he loves—writing eccentric music and drawing and painting some of the most iconographic images of the weirdest town in Texas. A few minutes away on South Congress Ave. (or SoCo), you’ll find Jo’s Coffee. On the side of the lime green coffee shop is the simple spray painted phrase, “I love you so much.” It may be simple, but it’s attracted the attention of countless tourists over the years and has become a favorite Facebook backdrop for tourist selfies.
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3 Apps You
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Downloading By Kyla Spaugh
OMNI STUDY Organization skills are habitually dishonored immediately following the stress of midterms, finals, homework, and outside commitments. But Omni Study keeps you organized when your schedule starts to crumble. It creates a structured layout of classes, assignments, and obligations into one app and also includes class times and professor’s names along with events and assignments tallied for each class. It includes push notifications, tracks progress, and supports block schedules, too. The best thing is that it comprises grades in a way that allows users to grasp what grade is required on the next assignment to either achieve the next letter grade or to maintain a current letter grade in a class. So throw out that cumbersome analog planner and contract the digital era of scheduling by downloading Omni Study. – 99 cents FOTOPEDIA Fotopedia is like a user travel encyclopedia with text and pics that chronicles your adventures. It can be used all over the world, because it was designed with traveling in mind, or in your own backyard. Users can browse entries crafted by locals and travelers’ from virtually all parts of the world as well as create their own experiences for other users to see and read. Imagine if Google Maps had thousands of tour guides to go with it, recommending the best things to see (with images) in everywhere from Bogota to Belgium. –Free SCRIBE Scribe allows iPhone users to copy and paste anything from a Mac to their phone almost effortlessly and without Wi-Fi. It uses lowenergy Bluetooth, which saves battery life and keeps all devices synced with a secure connection. The app works on all Macs and iOS devices, and your devices must be compatible with Bluetooth LE. Now you can send photos, notes, phone numbers and more from your Mac to your phone without plugging in. - Free
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BY LISA UNGER
New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger is at it again with In the Blood, a suspenseful, complex, subtle and sexy psychological thriller. The fast-paced page-turner is an aggressively dark novel and keeps the momentum Unger generated in previous works, such as The Darkness Gathers and Fragile. In this novel, Lana Granger is a compulsive liar with such a secret past that she has a hard time determining what’s real and what’s not. When her father was sentenced to death row for murdering her mother, Lana’s aunt took her in as her own. However, she quickly realizes she’s become the black sheep of the family and decides to start a new life at Sacred Heart College, New York. When she flees for Sacred Heart and becomes a complete stranger to everyone, she believes the past will also flee her consciousness. With an advisor’s help, Lana takes an after school job caring for an eleven-year-old named Luke. Quickly, Lana realizes that Luke is not your average kid. He’s emotionally disturbed and begins unraveling not only himself but also Granger’s web of selfrepressed lies. In the Blood will keep you on the edge of your seat. You couldn’t ask for more suspense, intrigue, and romance from one novel.
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Word Around Waco By Jenuine Poetess
Jenuine Poetess is an artist and community organizer. The founder of Word Gallery Open Mic, Waco Poets Society, and In the Words of Womyn (ITWOW), she is passionate about holding space for written & spoken-word. Visit thewordgallery. com or connect with her on Twitter @WordAroundWaco. Habits of a Thriving Writing Practice ~ Part II I’ve created and adopted the following as a guide when putting pen to paper: No rules. Just write. The practice here is to plow forward past the urge to correct, beyond the nagging to edit, straight through the shouts and doubts about if what you just wrote is actually a sentence, and just keep pouring words out onto the page. This space, right here, is about you. No teachers. No editors. No guidelines. No red pens bleeding across your work. Just you and your words. Put them on the page. They matter. They are important. And if you’re thinking, “I have nothing to say,” then write about that. Write about the not writing. About being stuck. About the blank page—or computer screen. About the quietness of your pen or keyboard. Write about your relationship with writing; is it a torrid life-long affair or a stale acquaintance? Write about why writing matters? Think about when you did it more often. Why did you stop? What interrupted your practice? Write about that tugging pull toward your notebook, journal, laptop, legal pad, or wherever you collect your words. Write about this column, how it’s asking you questions you don’t know how to answer. Or tell a story. Write someone else’s thoughts. Promise yourself you’ll write at least 5 sentences today. Right now. On the edge of this paper. Before anything else happens. Give your words some time today. Word Happenings • 1st & 3rd Saturday Open Mics @ Enchanted Cedar: 100 N. Oak, Lorena, TX • 2nd Saturday: Downtown Waco Farmers Market, @WordAroundWaco pop-up writing circle & community booth • Every Monday: Waco Barnes & Noble, ITWOW womyn's writing circle, 6-7:45pm Have a question, comment, word event, or writing prompt you’d like to share? A poem you’d like considered for publication? Write to Jenuine at wordaroundwaco@gmail.com. McLennan County poets of all ages, levels, styles, and languages are invited to submit original, previously unpublished poems for consideration. 36 line max. Include your name as you'd like it published and a 1-2 sentence bio. For young artists, include your age and school. Please include an English translation with poems written in another language.
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By Cheyenne Mueller
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit ACTION (R)
Yet another action flick is under Chris Pine’s belt (Star Trek, This Means War), who plays the lead in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. However, his character isn’t as aloof or cocky as his usual one-dimensional characters. Instead, he begins as an intelligent student studying at the London School of Economics at the time of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The scene progresses from Ryan as a student working on his dissertation to him serving his country in the Marines. Eighteen months later, Lieutenant Ryan cements his “good guy” persona by saving his fellow soldiers’ lives. His sacrifice causes him to end up on a gurney, caked in blood, with a chance of being paralyzed. Jack Ryan is very much a formula film, so the audience knows that Ryan isn’t actually going to end up paralyzed. Formula fiction contains storylines and plots that have been reused to the extent that the narratives are unfortunately predictable. In the film, which is actually based on Tom Clancy’s novel series by the same name, there is an archetypal good guy (Jack Ryan/America), a bad guy (Viktor Cherevin/Russia), a somewhat distant girlfriend (Cathy Muller, played by Keira Knightley), and an elder passing-of-the-torch character (Thomas Harper, played by Kevin Costner). Like many action flicks, Jack Ryan is essentially one man who faces challenges, grows from them, and eventually saves the world (America). The film doesn’t waste time with fluff. Director Kenneth Branagh introduces his characters quickly, highlighting qualities they embody with quick brushstrokes. Branagh himself is in the film, portraying Russian villain Viktor Cherevin. Cherevin’s character development is expedited by a brutal attack he delivers on a male nurse when he can’t get a needle into Cherevin’s vein. The nurse has to be escorted out, and Cherevin quite literally takes matters into his own hands, forcing the syringe into his own vein without flinching. Viewers learn just what kind of person Ryan will have to face later in the film. Shadow Recruit is the fifth movie focused on Ryan, who’s previously been portrayed by Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, and Ben Affleck. Twelve years since the last Jack Ryan film, Chris Pine’s rendition is as a foundation story, similar to 2012’s The Amazing Spider-Man franchise reboot.
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Upcoming: Labor Day (Jan. 31) Thirteen-year-old Henry—lonely, friendless, not too good at sports—spends most of his time watching television, reading, and daydreaming about his female classmates. His only companion and solace are his divorced mother, Adele, his hamster, Joe, and awkward Saturday-night outings with his estranged father and new stepfamily. Despite his frequent attempts, Henry knows that he can’t make his fragile mother happy. Crippled from a chronically broken heart, she carries a secret that makes it hard for her to leave their house. On the Thursday before Labor Day, a mysterious bleeding man named Frank approaches Henry and asks for a hand. Over the next five days, Henry will learn some of life’s most valuable lessons: how to throw a baseball, the secret to a perfect pie crust, the seething pain of jealousy, the power of betrayal, and the importance of putting others—especially those we love—above ourselves. • PG-13 for thematic material, brief violence and sexuality • Novel written by Joyce Maynard • Directed by Jason Reitman (Up in the Air, Juno)
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8. August: Osage County
2. Lone Survivor
A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Oklahoma house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them. R (121 min)
Fast-talking security guard Ben joins his cop brother-in-law James on a 24-hour patrol of Atlanta in order to prove himself worthy of marrying Angela, James’ sister. PG-13 (100 min)
Based on the failed 2005 mission “Operation Red Wings”, four members of SEAL Team 10 were tasked with a mission to capture or kill notorious Taliban leader Ahmad Shahd. R (121 min)
3. The Nut Job
Surly, a curmudgeon, independent squirrel is banished from his park and forced to survive in the city. Lucky for him, he stumbles on the one thing that may be able to save his life and the rest of park community as they gear up for winter. PG (86 min)
9. The Wolf of Wall Street Based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stockbroker living the high life to his fall from gold-plated grace, this Scorsese film is like The Godfather for investment bankers. R (180 min)
10. Devil’s Due
4. Frozen
In a kingdom cursed to endure permanent winter, a young girl voiced by Kristen Bell teams up with a mountain man to rescue her sister and stop the curse in the latest Disney animated adventure. PG (102 min)
After a mysterious, lost night on their honeymoon, a newlywed couple finds themselves dealing with an earlier-thanplanned pregnancy. While recording everything for posterity, the husband begins to notice odd behavior in his wife that they initially write off as nerves. But, as the months pass, it becomes evident that the dark changes to her body and mind have a much more sinister origin. R (89 min)
5. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
11. Her
Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack. PG-13 (105 min)
6. I, Frakenstein
Frankenstein’s creature finds himself caught in an all-out, centuries-old war between two immortal clans. PG-13 (93 min)
7. American Hustle
A con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive British partner, Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for a wild FBI agent, Richie DiMaso. DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and the mafia. R (138 min)
A lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with his newly purchased operating system, one that’s designed to meet his every need. R (126 min)
14. Dallas Buyer’s Club
In 1985 Dallas, electrician/hustler Ron Woodroof works around the system to help AIDS patients get the medication they need after he himself is diagnosed with the disease.
15. Gravity
A medical engineer and an astronaut work together to survive after an accident leaves them adrift in space.PG13 (91 min)
16. 12 Years a Slave
In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. R (134 min)
17. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Katniss and Peeta are thrown into an all-star season of the hunger games, but something’s different this time around. Revolution is in the air. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jeffrey Wright, and Amanda Plummer join the cast. PG-13 (146 min)
18. Nebraska
An aging, booze-addled father makes a trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a milliondollar sweepstakes prize. R (115 min)
12. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
19. The Legend of Hercules
The dwarves, along with Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf the Grey, continue their quest to reclaim Erebor, their homeland, from Smaug. Bilbo Baggins is in possession of a mysterious and magical ring. PG-13 (161 min)
Betrayed by his stepfather, the King, and exiled and sold into slavery because of forbidden love, Hercules must use his formidable powers to fight his way back to his rightful kingdom. PG-13 (99 min)
13. Saving Mr. Banks
20. Philomena
Author P.L. Travers reflects on her difficult childhood while meeting with filmmaker Walt Disney during production for the adaptation of her novel, Mary Poppins. PG-13 (125 min)
Steve Coogan plays a serious journalist who decides to write a human interest piece, the story of Philomena, who is trying to track down the son she put up for adoption years ago. PG-13 (98 min)
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