‘Strings’ reveals growth of Z Mullins Dance Evening showcases the young company’s solid choreography The third annual evening-length concert by the 3-year-old Z Mullins Dance Company was characterized by solidly constructed and thematically coherent choreography. Guest artists Danah Bella and her danahbella DanceWorks, from Radford, contributed two works that supported the holistic philosophy of the Mullins troupe.

Only a few things to like in ‘Love’ Some good jokes, but the ‘bromance’ film comes up short ILove You, Man” would be better if it were a different movie. The jokes are funny enough, some of them. The performances are relatively winning. The only problem is that the topic is not quite interesting enough to merit an entire movie. You can see why the idea may have seemed clever, at least in theory: Two guys begin a close friendship that mirrors a romantic relationship. It is as if writers John Hamburg and Larry Levin heard the term “bromance” and decide to take it literally.

“Duplicity” with Julia Roberts and Clive Owen keeps you guessing           Tony Gilroy penetrated the world of corporate corruption with suspense and insight in his 2007 directing debut, “Michael Clayton.“  He revisits that territory with “Duplicity,“ only he does it with plenty of sexual tension to go along with his usual crackling dialogue and complex plotting. The storytelling here is more dense, but the tone has a sexy playfulness about it.

As the host of what must be a half-dozen cooking shows on the Food Network, Giada De Laurentiis has proved herself to be a warm and vibrant personality. Fortunately, she turns out to be a pretty good cook, too, as she shows in her fourth cookbook, “Giada’s Kitchen.“

Publisher: Clarkson Potter
  Price: $32.50 Pages: 240 Recipe worth trying: Panini with Chocolate and Brie, page 58

Morrissey shows why he remains a fan favorite British music icon delights with new songs, Smiths hits Morrissey’s fans bleed a devotion not usually seen in people older than 16. About 45 minutes into the concert, during “Let Me Kiss You,“ the thoughtful British crooner whipped off his blue plaid shirt and tossed it into the crowd.

Where are you going for dinner tonight?“ a co-worker asked. “My Restaurant,“ I replied. [Insert expected blank stare here.]  “No, no, not my restaurant, My Restaurant,“ I said, trying to clarify things. “It used to be Andre’s Grille, but new management changed the name last October.“

Film review: ‘The Class’—summa cum laude     audience with school settings that feel real     The French classroom film “The Class” is so real you can almost smell the chalk.  Set at a Paris middle school and showing the efforts of a dedicated teacher to help his unwilling students learn, “The Class” looks like a documentary. It feels like a documentary. The only clue that it isn’t a documentary is that it is ever so slightly too slick—no one looks at the camera, and the camera always knows where to be.

The most unintentionally hilarious moment in “Watchmen”? There are so many to choose from, so very many.  But it would have to be the love scene played out on a desert planet at sundown, the two naked lovers standing and kissing in front of a nuclear explosion and mushroom cloud.

The cool thing about Mediterranean cuisine is that it incorporates food from so many diverse regions. Mediterranean cooking encompasses food from Spain, France, Italy (we’re going clockwise here), Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Gaza, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco, plus the island countries of Cyprus and Malta.

It’s almost beside the point that “Jonas Brothers: The 3-D Concert Experience” is well made. Millions of Jonas Brothers fans would flock to it even if it were shot on cell phones. Kevin, Joe and Nick Jonas have a wholesome, youthful appeal that drives their almost exclusively pubescent female audience wild. One of the pleasures of the movie is the way it captures the peculiar sociological phenomenon of mass teenage adulation—the screams, the outstretched arms, the hyperventilation and even the fainting from excitement.

Like a latter-day Jean Valjean stealing a loaf of bread in “Les Miserables,“ the desperate Wendy Carroll steals a can of dog food for her hungry dog. The differences between “Les Miserables” and “Wendy and Lucy,“ in which this action takes place, are that “Les Miserables” is good and things happen in it, and Jean Valjean doesn’t spend the entire rest of the book looking for a lost dog.

The important thing to know about “The Velveteen Rabbit” is that it isn’t “The Velveteen Rabbit” at all; rather it is merely inspired by “The Velveteen Rabbit.“ Which is to say it uses a couple of fleeting ideas from the beloved children’s tale by Margery Williams, but mostly it just makes up the rest of the story. That is sort of like calling a film “Gone With the Wind” because it has a character named Rhett and takes place during the Civil War.

Film review: Loving the human “I’ve Loved You So Long”    When we first see Kristin Scott Thomas in “I’ve Loved You So Long,“ she is bone-weary and emotionally damaged.  In movies, there are only two directions a character like that can take. Either she will work her way through her problems and find a form of redemption, or her situation will deteriorate further until it becomes intolerable.

Review of ‘Waltz With Bashir’      WALTZ WITH BASHIR Movie review   Voices: Ron Ben-Yishai, Ronny Dayag At: Westhampton FYI: Running time: 1:23. In Hebrew with English subtitles. Rated R (atrocities, violence, brief nudity, strong and graphic sexual content)  lead to conclusions in roundabout way   The Israeli animated film “Waltz With Bashir” draws to a stunning and important conclusion, but it goes an awfully long way to get there.