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Classic Radio Theatre’s second season is audio worth watching
More characters also means actors play more roles, which they love, said director Michelle De Long.
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Local students face changes on first day of school year after budget cuts
Students go back to school and face cuts to academics, fine arts and athletics programs.
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Carpenter Square ends season with Nicky Silver comedy The Agony & The Agony
Rhonda Clark and the other minds behind Carpenter Square Theatre’s creative direction read all of playwright Nicky Silver’s new works. Finding one that’s a good fit for their intimate production setting is another matter. Silver is a New York-based writer known for penning off-Broadway productions like 1993’s Pterodactyls, 1995’s Raised in Captivity and 2004’s Beautiful […]
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deadCenter Film Festival: Recommended reels
If there’s one figure whose life and work were just waiting to be represented in a documentary, it’s Maya Angelou. That is why it’s crazy when you realize that there hasn’t been a single feature film produced about the revolutionary writer until now.
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Jon Favreau creates lavish version of the Kipling classic
In recent years, Disney has released a series of live-action remakes of its animated films with varying degrees of success.
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Review: Despite intense action on waves, The Finest Hours hits rough patches on land
When not aboard the squall-navigating ships, The Finest Hours succumbs to its back-of-the-box-recipe script.
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His physicality — the guy is shredded like lettuce and throws himself at the performance like a berserker — and goofy, sweet buffoonishness (much like Stallone’s in Rocky) combine into a rich character we can’t help but root for.
His physicality — the guy is shredded like lettuce and throws himself at the performance like a berserker — and goofy, sweet buffoonishness (much like Stallone’s in Rocky) combine into a rich character we can’t help but root for.
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Spielberg’s artful storytelling creates a slow-burning spy-vs.-spy drama
Spielberg does an excellent job of not overloading the film with too much schmaltz. He is assisted by fluid camerawork by cinematographer Janusz Kaminski and a score by Thomas Newman.
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Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Inception) as renowned French high-wire artist Philippe Petit, the movie tells the story of one man’s journey to be the first person to walk “the void” between the World Trade Center’s twin towers in 1974.
Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Inception) as renowned French high-wire artist Philippe Petit, the movie tells the story of one man’s journey to be the first person to walk “the void” between the World Trade Center’s twin towers in 1974.