>> The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
>> Identity Thief
>> Gangster Squad
>> Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away
>> Lincoln
>> Zero Dark Thirty
>> Hitchcock
>> The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
>> Hyde Park on Hudson
>> Safety Not Guaranteed

Opening 5.10.13
>> The Great Gatsby (PG-13) [trailer]
>> Peeples (PG-13) [trailer]
>> Aftershock (Limited) (R) [trailer]
>> And Now a Word From Our Sponsor (Limited) (NR) [trailer]
>> Erased (Limited) (R) [trailer]
>> Sightseers (Limited) (NR) [trailer]
>> Venus and Serena (Limited) (PG-13) [trailer]

Coming To DVD/Blu-Ray 5.7.13
>> Safe Haven (2013) [buy]
>> Fringe: The Complete Fifth Season [buy]
>> Jack Reacher [buy]
>> Mama [buy]
>> Superman: Unbound [buy]

The Devil's Hammer - by Victoria Alexander
Welcome to The Devil's Hammer, by Victoria Alexander and exclusive to FromTheBalcony.com. In this weekly column, Victoria will tickle our feet with anecdotes from the wonderful world of Las Vegas, as well as whatever is on her mind. The column will run every Monday, and all installments will be archived on this page. Enjoy!

Columns by year: 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005

Last 10 Columns

>> May 6, 2013 - World's Most Beautiful and Hated Woman; Other Hated Celebrities; Big Trouble in Papua New Guinea; How to Break into Television; The New Face of Mecca; the 1,972-foot-tall, five-star Abraj al-Bait tower; An Art Patron Helps Out; and Are We Living in a Simulation Universe?

>> April 29, 2013 - What Happened to Night Births?; A Small World Closes Membership to Become More Elite; The Re-branding of MySpace; The Monica Bellucci-Vincent Cassel Marriage; Mars One Taking Applications; and Inspiration Mars Foundation.

>> April 15, 2013 - Apple's co-founder Steve Wozniak at NAB; Fusion-io Cirque de L'absurde Outdoor Party; The Las Vegas Wranglers at Orleans Arena; They Found Hell!; Men to become extinct - in millions of years; I Need to be the Lead!; Movie Star in a Glass Box.

>> March 25, 2013 - TDH's 300th column! Sizzurp and Whippets; Defiant Requiem: Voices Of Resistance; the fascinating Gordon Novel and The Umbrella Man; the St. Claire Cabal; the great Joan Rivers; Movie Review - The Place Beyond the Pines.

>> March 18, 2013 - TDH is back after cruising Africa on the Silver Sea Wind; 4 Wheel Parts Mint 400 Off-Road Vehicle Parade March 20; Pope Benedict Resigns - another theory; Pope Francis; CBS Survivor Viewing Party at Ballys; Mojitos Bar at Treasure Island and RockHouse at The Venetian.

>> February 4, 2013 - TDH is off again...this time cruising Africa. Watch for TDH reports from the Dark Continent!

>> January 28, 2013 - Harvard geneticist seeks "adventurous woman" to have Neanderthal baby; Movie Reviews: THE LAST STAND (He's not back quite yet), BROKEN CITY BROKEN CITY (New Yorkers would never elect a man for mayor who wears bangs) and the terrific TEDDY BEAR (It's Paddy Chayesky's Marty drenched in silent emotion); The Violinist's Thumb; Toba Super-volcano eruption.

>> January 21, 2013 - Trouble in Mali, West Africa (we were there!), BFCA's 18th Annual Critics Choice Awards on January 10 on the CW Network and the silly but powerful Golden Globes, the exuberant, must-see ROCK OF AGES at The Venetian, 2012 Nevada Regional Yoga Asana Championship, and Fame Daddy: Buy Brad Pitt's sperm...

>> January 14, 2013 - Top films of 2012.

>> January 7, 2013 - BFCA's Critics Choice Awards Live on January 10 on the CW Network, Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura, Revisiting the Alexander UFO Religious Crisis Survey, Jeff Levin, Sedona Vortex Jumper Peter Gersten Wanders Home After Vortex Fails to Open on December 21 at 11:11, and more...