2 Days in New York opens Friday in select theaters Our rating: Americans who still don’t trust the French (you know, like those pro-war folk who lobbied that French fries be renamed “freedom fries”) may feel 2 Days in New York basically verifies what they’ve always wondered about them: that they’re morally ambiguous, shit-starting nutjobs. […]
Craig D. Lindsey
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Seven Psychopaths gleefully guts crime-movie tropes
Seven Psychopaths opens Friday throughout the Triangle (see times below) Our rating: Some audiences will be shocked at the graphic, gruesome ways murder is served up in Seven Psychopaths. But there will probably be some, like myself, who’ll be shocked by how much the movie gets away with oozing obvious contempt for the Hollywood industry […]
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A conversation with Joe Rogan, the podcasting, joke-thief slayer
Photo by Brian Friedman JOE ROGAN@Memorial Auditorium7:30 p.m. When it comes right down to it, Joe Rogan will always be a stand-up. He may have served as a electrician of the ’90s cult sitcom Newsradio, a replacement host for The Man Show, a UFC commentator and, most infamously, the host of the extreme reality show […]
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Bearable Adam Sandler in Hotel Transylvania
Hotel Transylvania opens Friday (see times below) Our rating: The sight of Adam Sandler in animated form in Hotel Transylvania makes himand the puerile bullshit he usually does in his live-action filmsslightly bearable. Here, his Count Dracula runs a hotel/ resort that serves as a relaxing getaway for the vilified monsters of the world, and […]
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Dueling college a cappella groups in Pitch Perfect
Pitch Perfect opens Friday (see times below) Our rating: Since I haven’t seen one episode of Glee, I don’t know how much the new a cappella movie Pitch Perfect toys with the expectations of those who are familiar with that love-it-or-hate-it show. Set in one of those movie college campuses where the arts are more […]
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Questions for Brian Regan, a hard-working, good-guy comic
Photo by Brian Friedman BRIAN REGAN@ Durham Performing Arts Center7 p.m. Even if you’ve never heard of Brian Regan, the minute you see him perform, you immediately fall in love with the guy. A 30-year veteran of the stand-up scene, the Miami-born, Vegas-based comic is well-known for his clean but still utterly uproarious stand-up. His […]
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There’s only one Nina Simone: Weekend of tributes opens at UNC
Sonja Haynes Stone Center Five words: Zoe Saldana is Nina Simone. Those words have already summoned the disgust of fans, admirers and even Simone family members, who don’t think casting the light-skinned, Avatar ingénue as the late, legendary artist is a good idea. The New York Times recently reported that one woman posted an online […]
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Are we bored with 3-D yet? A conversation with film scholar Chuck Tryon
Finding Nemo is being rereleased in 3-D on Sept. 14. Show of hands: How many of you out there are so over movies in 3-D? What was once an evolutionary step that was supposed to revolutionize cinema and add exciting new dimensions to the moviegoing experience is now something many moviegoers often choose to live […]
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Matthew McConaughey terrorizes in Killer Joe
Killer Joe Opens Friday at Raleigh Grande Killer Joe begins showing a semi-nude Gina Gershon and ends with her beaten, bloodied and being forced to suck off a fried chicken leg. Just by that one sentence, you might immediately know if this is a movie you do or do not want to be down with. […]
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Against prevailing trends, Raleigh Grande to expand specialty film options
Read Craig D. Lindsey’s film review. With the continuing uncertainty over the future of Cary’s Galaxy Cinema and its six art-house screens, as well as an unmistakable trend among other Triangle art houses toward slam-dunk titles and revivals of old favorites and less on obscurities that may not sell tickets no matter the critical estimation, […]