It’s Friday afternoon and Peyton Reed is stuck in traffic. “I’m going seven miles an hour,” says the Raleigh-born filmmaker. “I’m really flying down the 405.” It’s amazing that he’s staying so cool, even enthusiastic. Not only is he inching down a freeway in his home base of Los Angeles, but his new movie, the […]
Craig D. Lindsey
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The Overnight is an over-the-top yet endearing bedroom farce for the married set
THE OVERNIGHT Opening Friday Right from the jump, The Overnight lays out how odd things can get in the bedroom for married couples. The movie begins with Alex (Parks and Recreation straight man Adam Scott) and Emily (Orange is the New Black star Taylor Schilling) getting in a quick one before they start the day. […]
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Tom Whiteside and the A/V Geeks bring drive-in movies back to Durham
LAKEWOOD DRIVE-IN Friday, June 19, 9 p.m. $5 (on foot), $10 (two-seat cars), $20 (larger cars) The Scrap Exchange 2050 Chapel Hill Rd., Durham 919-688-6960 www.scrapexchange.org Tom Whiteside makes it his business to air his love of experimental and archival filmliterally. His Durham Cinematheque series showcases filmic odds and ends at various unusual venues, often […]
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Stand-up comedian and columnist Cameron Esposito takes others with her to the top
Cameron Esposito With Rhea Butcher Friday June 5, 8 p.m., $12 The Pinhook 117 W. Main St., Durham 919-667-1100 | www.thepinhook.com Ellen DeGeneres is the queen of daytime TV, beloved by the LGBTQ community as well as moms and grandparents everywhere. Alt-comic Tig Notaro turned her pain and suffering into cathartic comedy gold, winning acclaim […]
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Discover maverick filmmaker Samuel Fuller in a Colony Theatres screening of A Fuller Life
A Fuller Life Thursday, May 21, 7 p.m., Colony Theatres 5438 Six Forks Road, Raleigh, 919-847-5677 www.ambassadorcinemas.com | www.afullerlifedoc.com Marsha Gordon is on a mission to let everyone in the Triangle know what a badass filmmaker Samuel Fuller was. A film studies professor at N.C. State, Gordon has been immersed in Fuller’s life and career. […]
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Former The Daily Show correspondent Wyatt Cenac returns to the first place he ever did stand-up, Goodnights Comedy Club
Wyatt Cenac Tuesday, May 12, 7:30 p.m. $17–$25 Goodnights Comedy Club 861 W. Morgan St., Raleigh 919-828-5233 www.goodnightscomedy.com Wyatt Cenac would rather not spend a lot of time talking about The Daily Show. Still, the comedian is best known for his time as a writer and correspondent on the fake-news program, and one needs to […]
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Olivier Assayas delivers a complex study of an older movie star and her young assistant in Clouds of Sils Maria
Clouds of Sils Maria Opening Friday As we dive headfirst into the noisy summer-movie season with the May 1 opening of Avengers: Age of Ultron, leave it to heady, naturalistic French director Olivier Assayas to counter the carnage with Clouds of Sils Maria, possibly the season’seven the year’smost stunning, complex film. While the title refers […]
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Kevin Hart, coming to PNC Arena May 1, is one of comedy’s biggest stars—so where’s the critical love?
Kevin Hart Friday, May 1, 7 p.m. $46.50–$150 PNC Arena 1400 Edwards Mill Rd., Raleigh 919-861-2300 | www.thepncarena.com Kevin Hart should’ve gotten a solo cover from Entertainment Weekly a long time ago. Hart, a 35-year-old Philadelphia native, is one of the most popular, successful comedy superstars out there. His list of accomplishments this year alone […]
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For Bulltown Comedy Series, the challenge is turning frosty mugs into belly laughs at the bar
BULLTOWN COMEDY SERIES Tuesday, April 21, 9 p.m. Fullsteam Brewery 726 Rigsbee Ave., Durham 919-682-2337 www.facebook.com/BulltownComedySeries Every month, Virginia Wallis makes it her mission to prove stand-up comedians can perform in the noisy, preoccupied climate that is a brewery tavern. That’s where she and other comics have the Bulltown Comedy Series at Durham’s Fullsteam Brewery […]
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Full Frame: Remembering candid moments with the late, legendary Albert Maysles
I met Albert Maysles in 2008at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, of course. He had just finished screening Sally Gross: The Pleasure of Stillness. I cornered him and asked some long-winded question about his 1970 film Gimme Shelter, which chronicled the Rolling Stones’ 1969 tour leading to a disastrous free show at Altamont, and […]