Maybe it’s the 1980s and 1990s nostalgia for vintage video games. Maybe it’s John C. Reilly’s and Sarah Silverman’s terrific performances as Wreck-It Ralph and Vanellope von Schweetz. Maybe it’s because so many animated movies lately have been just O.K. (Frankenweenie) or downright mediocre (Brave). But something about Wreck-It Ralph made my cold critic’s heart grow three sizes.
Every James Bond film deserves a grand-scale debut, so pairing Skyfall with the opening of the new Regal Stonefield Stadium 14 seems fitting.
“Camel Flowers” is a private collection of rare tribal Anatolian and Persian animal adornments curated by local business owner, Saul Barodofsky. While highly decorative, these medallions, head dresses, knee pads and whips were devised to protect against evil, and bring fertility to the nomadic tribes who dressed their camels and horses with them. The antique tack […]
I don’t remember my first visit to Vinegar Hill Theatre. It was the mid-to-late ’80s, so it was probably a children’s film; a collection of cartoon shorts, or an obscure foreign import.
Want a recipe for experimental, space-age piano rock? Start with a graduate of the Berklee School of Music, stir in masterful key playing that sounds like anything but piano, add a dash of sonic loop-de-loops, and finish with vocals whispered from beyond the ether.
Hollywood, Virginia “I’ve done about 200 films in my career. I’ve worked with Francis Coppola, Delbert Mann, John Waters, Barry Levinson. The list goes on,” said Michael Kennedy. “These guys stand head and shoulders above all the other directors I’ve ever worked with. They clearly get it. But the gap between those guys and Steven […]
Wearing your heart on your sleeve can take you pretty far with today’s music audience.
To travel from Newport, Rhode Island to Seattle, Washington with your family–who are all together for the first time since an emotionally wracking divorce a decade-and-a-half ago–most people of sound mind would tackle the 3000 miles in an airplane, or a car, or a train. Emmy award winning documentary film producer/book author/decorated journeyman Sprague Theobald […]
Fifteen albums comprise an impressive repertoire for any musician. Make that artist a contemporary jazz pianist surrounded by critical enthusiasm and the reverence sky-rockets.
If you think that 107 minutes seem too few to screen eight very different films, the Virginia Film Festival wants you to know that you’re wrong. With eight original, exciting, and even provocative short pieces by seven directors, the Shorts Program contains more movies in under two hours than most people see in a week. […]