Memphis Movies This Week: ‘Avatar,’ ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ at the Orpheum
“Avatar: Fire and Ash” is the third installment in director James Cameron’s heavily animated, labor-of-love sci-fi series. (Courtesy 20th Century Fox)
ICYMI, the Southeastern Film Critics Association announced its year-end winners this week. I was among the 99 voters from nine Southern states, but will wait to share my own picks later on this month.
“Hamnet,” a bit of speculative fiction about the family life of William Shakespeare and the writing of “Hamlet,” is the only movie in the SEFCA Top 10 currently screening in Memphis, and it expands this week, adding a screen at Collierville Cinema Grill while retaining one at Ridgeway Cinema Grill.
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Chris Herrington
Chris Herrington has covered the Memphis Grizzlies, in one way or another, since the franchise’s second season in Memphis, while also writing about music, movies, food and civic life. As far as he knows, he’s the only member of the Professional Basketball Writers Association who is also a member of a film critics group and has also voted in national music critic polls for Rolling Stone and the Village Voice (RIP). He and his wife have two kids and, for reasons that sometimes elude him, three dogs.
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