Arts Culture

All this and more

Co-directors Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s Everything Everywhere All At Once is a relentlessly entertaining, hilarious parody of the nonstop kinetics and overused “multiverse” concepts of recent comic book and […]

Justin Humphreys | April 27, 2022

Arts Culture

I, robot

Whether you love or hate Andy Warhol’s work, his impact on the arts as a provocateur, businessman, and impresario is immeasurable. Andrew Rossi’s six-part Netflix series “The Andy Warhol Diaries” […]

Justin Humphreys | April 13, 2022

Arts Culture

Robotic delivery

If Terry Gilliam remade “The Jetsons,” it might go something like Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Bigbug. This French science-fiction comedy takes a generally dark movie sub-genre—robot servants revolting against their human masters—and […]

Justin Humphreys | March 23, 2022

Arts Culture

Direct miss

In Adam McKay’s satire Don’t Look Up, astronomy grad student Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) and her professor, Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio), discover a “planet-killing” comet that’s hurtling toward Earth. […]

Justin Humphreys | March 9, 2022

Arts Culture

On location

Since 2019, local filmmaker Ty Cooper’ Indie Short Film Series has given aspiring Charlottesville filmmakers a valuable opportunity to showcase their work. “It’s a way for you to enter the […]

Justin Humphreys | February 23, 2022

Arts Culture

Belly up

Adapted from J.R. Moehringer’s memoir, director George Clooney’s The Tender Bar is story worth telling—and at times it’s well-told. But the film never fully coalesces, and it feels like a […]

Justin Humphreys | February 9, 2022

Arts Culture

Carnival swindle

From start to finish, Guillermo Del Toro’s Nightmare Alley is a dreary, plodding, flashy reminder of why filmmakers should leave great movies alone. The William Gresham novel was adapted into […]

Justin Humphreys | January 26, 2022

Arts Culture

Flashback to fun

With the current glut of super­heroes, franchises, and remakes at movie theaters, a film like Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza stands out by default simply for being low-key, unpredictable, and […]

Justin Humphreys | January 12, 2022

Arts Culture

Dealing with dope

Since 2012, Roanoke-based writer Beth Macy has been at the forefront of reporting on the opioid epidemic, covering the toll that the drugs have taken on people and communities in […]

Justin Humphreys | October 27, 2021