You’re angry. They get scared of you when you tell them what you’ve been through. You’re not a jerk. It’s just, you signed over your body to the government, spent a year getting shot at in Afghanistan, 7,000 miles away. It’s not you, but what the war did to you: The post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), […]
"When I was 15, I shot my first feature film,” the local horror film director John Johnson told me last week. “I was lucky enough to have Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell and Joseph LoDuca, the creators of the original Evil Dead series look at my film and give me pointers.” Jarod Kearney stars as […]
The A.V. Club loves Daniel Kraus’ "Preacher," about Bishop William Nowell of the New Covenant Church
Well, wow. With a pair of high-profile residents, a porn tycoon, and a filmmaker as famous for his biopics as he is for the historical liberties he takes in them, looks like the Virginia Film Festival’s 24th year will be one of its most interesting.
More to come as fast as I can type it
You probably have not heard of Nathan Broaddus, or his calm, thoughtful bedroom recording project Evenings. But Broaddus, a talented 21-year-old UVA student studying French and Music, may very well be the “next big thing”—we small town music writers are always on the lookout for it—to come out of Charlottesville music. Though he has no […]
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