30 The Explorer, April 17, 2013 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Parental Guidance (PG) The Hobbitt: An Unexpected Journey (PG-13) Life of Pi (PG) Rise of the Guardians (PG) TOP 10 TheThe GUIDEGUIDE Wreck-It Ralph (PG) at the box office Argo (R) Movie Weekend Gross THEATER 42 $27.2M Scary Movie 5 $15.2M THURSDAY TO SUNDAY, APRIL 18-21 The Croods $13.2M Controversial topics explored in • Catch a performance of Robert Fulghum’s G.I. Joe: Retaliation $10.8M All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Evil Dead $9.5M Kindergarten presented by the Waypoint Jurassic Park: IMAX 3D $8.8M Arizona heatre’s “Clybourne Park” Theatre Company. Details: 7:30 p.m. Thursday- Olympus Has Fallen $7.3M Friday, 2:30 p.m. Saturday-Sunday; Atria Bell Oz the Great and Powerful $4.9M Court Gardens’ Academy Hall Theatre, 6653 E. Temptation $4.5M Evan Hoffmann Carondelet Drive; $20, $18 seniors/military, $12 The Place Beyond The Pines $4.1M Special to he Explorer students; 800-838-3006 or www.waypoint- theatre.org. laywright Bruce Norris has Century Theatres SATURDAY, APRIL 20 12155 N. Oracle Road, 742-6512 chosen not to fabricate the • Enjoy the critically acclaimed Les Ballets 42 (PG-13) truth in order to invent a sto- P Trockadero De Monte Carlo who have Scary Movie V (PG-13) ry. He ofers no make believe Evil Dead (R) worlds, no climactic battles of good delighted audiences around the world with Jurassic Park 3D (PG-13) and evil, no metaphorical calls to their parodies of classical works. Details: 8 p.m.; The Host (PG-13) action, no romantic lickers of pas- UA Centennial Hall, 1020 E. University Blvd.; G.I. Joe: Retaliation (PG-13) sion, no moments of inspiration, $29-$47; 621-3341. G.I. Joe: Retaliation 3D (PG-13) no heroes, no villains, no damsels, Admission (PG-13) or vixens. Instead, the award-win- MUSIC The Croods (PG) ning author of “Clybourne Park” Courtesy Photo Olympus Has Fallen (R) has elected to present his audience “Clybourne Park.” The Call (R) with an unlattering relection from FRIDAY, APRIL 19 Oz The Great and Powerful (PG) a mirror. His play brings humanity home. Karl, the most vocal of pro- “Clybourne Park” markets it- • Support the University of Arizona School The Gatekeepers (PG-13) face to face with its own imperfect testors, pleads with Russ to reconsid- self as a comedy, but this is a gross of Music at a performance of the UA Studio Jurassic Park (PG-13) image, and forces it to observe the er leaving his home, even going as far understatement. Comedy does not Jazz Ensemble with Triple Threat. Details: ugly facts of life. as dragging the African-American typically address such fragile, even 7:30 p.m.; DesertView Performing Arts Center, Foothills he descriptive marketing of maid, Francine, and her husband painful subjects as racism. Norris 39900 Clubhouse Drive; $24, $22 in advance; 7401 N. La Cholla Blvd., 888-262-4386 “Clybourne Park” makes claims that into the discussion in hopes of il- crats content that brilliantly enables 825-2818. 42 (PG-13) it is a “provocative comedy about the lustrating the polarizing diferences the audience to laugh at the ugliness • Don’t miss the gritty funk and political poetry Scary Movie V (PG-13) of Rodriguez with whose story is an unusual Jurassic Park IMAX (PG-13) intersection of race and real estate”, between cultures. Russ, however, ex- of their own societal shortcomings, but even this broad and ambiguous plains that he feels no loyalty to the and the ridiculousness of poor racial tale of an obscure Detroit singer-songwriter Evil Dead (R) who became an inspiration to the anti- (PG-13) sketch fails to harness the dense na- Clybourne neighborhood, as they relations. Jurassic Park 3D Apartheid movement in South Africa. Details: 8 (R) ture of the play’s content. Dense as it ostracized his son ater returning And Norris does not hold back Trance p.m.; Casino del Sol AVA Amphitheater, 5655 W. The Host (PG-13) may be, the talented cast and direc- from the Korean War, possibly con- any punches. Without exemption, Valencia Road; $20-$32; 800-344-9435. The Place Beyond the Pines (R) tors of the Arizona heater Com- tributing to his eventual suicide. each character is lawed, and each Tyler Perry’s Temptation (PG-13) pany have elected to present Norris’ In the play’s second act, the audi- brings their own unpleasant repre- G.I. Joe: Retaliation (PG-13) complicated production to Tucson’s ence inds themselves in the same sentation of the social order. Be that SPECIAL EVENTS G.I. Joe: Retaliation 3D (PG-13) Temple of Music and Art through living room set as the irst, though as it may, “Clybourne Park” does not The Croods 3D (PG) April 27, before traveling northward now soiled and exhausted by time lecture the audience. Instead, the play The Croods (PG) for a three week stint in Phoenix’s in the year 2009. A stringent role promotes societal analysis, and en- THURSDAY TO SUNDAY, APRIL 18-28 Olympus Has Fallen (R) Herberger heater Center. reversal surfaces as the irst act’s cast courages viewers to draw their own • Bring the kids to the 103rd Annual Pima The Call (R) Clybourne’s irst act takes place members return in new form. Cly- conclusions. It illustrates our misun- County Fair featuring exhibits, food, concerts, Oz The Great and Powerful (PG) in a 1959 middle class suburb of bourne is now a predominantly Af- derstandings, fears, miscommuni- carnival rides, and educational exhibits. Details: Jurassic Park (PG-13) Chicago, where tragedy stricken rican American neighborhood, and cations, and motives, enabling us to 1 p.m. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. Saturday- residents, Russ and Bev, are prepar- expecting Caucasian couple Steve face the sting of racism. “Clybourne Sunday; Pima County Fairgrounds, 11300 S. Oracle View ing for a much needed move. Ater and Lindsey are hoping to gentrify Park” is a brilliant observation of the Houghton Road; $8, $3 ages 6-10, free ages 5 4690 N. Oracle Road, 292-2430 a few slow minutes of hollow 1950’s the historical home. However, they tragedy of the human condition and and under; 762-9100. (PG-13) The Last Exorcism Part II banter, tensions grow as the couples must irst meet with African-Amer- the brokenness of culture. One that A Good Day to Die Hard (R) living room becomes full of guests, ican members of the neighborhood teaches viewers that, try as we might, FRIDAY TO SUNDAY, APRIL 19-21 Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (R) • Tour authentically restored aircraft or take a Mama (PG-13) many of whom are vociferous association, in an exchange that par- these are problems that cannot be neighbors expressing concerns over allels that of the irst act, and intensi- ignored, and will not go away should light for the ultimate immersion in history at Zero Dark Thirty (R) the Collings Foundation Wings of Freedom Django Unchained (R) the African-American family who ies as racial relations are once again we choose to brush them aside. will be moving into Russ and Bev’s brought to the forefront. Tour. Details: 2-5 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. ARBOR DAY IN ORO VALLEY Saturday, April 27, 2013 • 9am - Noon Steam Pump Ranch, 10901 N. Oracle Road Join us for a tree planting demonstration, information on site selection, tips on tree care and more. This event is made possible by a grant from Arizona State Forestry Division’s Community Challenge program. The grant is also helping to fund a tree inventory of Oro Valley and develop a tree Desert Trees management program in cooperation with the University of Arizona. Nursery.