Dylan Moran: Yeah, Yeah Fletcher Opera Theater Duke Energy Center Monday, Oct. 28, 8 p.m. $34 Talking with Dylan Moran can be a sobering experience. This isn’t just because he’s sober throughout the interview. The Ireland-born comic is known for his on-stage persona of a slurring, pontificating lush, a chain-smoking, wine-digesting, tortured crank whose stream-of-consciousness […]
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The origin of the sound in Muscle Shoals
Muscle Shoals opens Friday For those who were won over by 20 Feet From Stardom, Muscle Shoals is another documentary coming this way that’ll take you back to the good ol’ days of pop and rock, shining a light on one of its funky foundations. For the uninitiated, Muscle Shoals is the small town in […]
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Escape from Tomorrow is a surreal Disney nightmare
Escape from Tomorrow opens Friday At this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Escape from Tomorrow was a much-talked-about hot ticket. The movie wasn’t expected to see the light of day once the festival ended; it was filmed without permission on the grounds of Walt Disney World, which comes out looking less like the happiest place on […]
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Sandra Bernhard on Sandyland, her latest one-woman show
Sandra Bernhard Friday, Oct. 11, 8 p.m. $34–$44 Carolina Theatre The fact that Lily Tomlin and Sandra Bernhard will be performing back-to-back this weekend almost seems like a planned bit of genius on the Carolina’s part. After all, both ladies have had similar career arcs. They’re both known for their outspokenness, on and off the […]
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Anthony Jeselnik and the art of obnoxiousness
Anthony Jeselnik Sept. 28, 7 p.m. Carolina Theatre It isn’t that surprising to hear Anthony Jeselnik say he’s a huge fan of Craig Kilborn, former host of The Daily Show and The Late Late Show. “I thought he was a genius,” Jeselnik says, on the phone from Los Angeles. After all, both men have a […]
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Thanks for Sharing is an unsatisfying, relentlessly depriving experience
Thanks for Sharing opens Friday Thanks for Sharing is yet another misguided film that goes about painting a revealing yet nonjudgmental view of sex addiction. But unlike Shame, which portrayed sex addiction too grimly, or the upcoming Don Jon, which plays it for laughs, Thanks for Sharing tries to have it both waysand ends up […]
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Searching for the sugar of yesteryear
Some of you may have seen the finale of last season’s Mad Men, in which forever troubled adman Don Draper had a meltdown during a pitch with Hershey, recalling how he used to rummage through johns’ pockets at the brothel where he grew up so he could get a Hershey’s chocolate bar and feel like […]
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Hell Baby, a comedy about satanic offspring
Hell Baby opens Friday With both Scary Movie 5 and the Marlon Wayans vehicle A Haunted House making brief runs in theaters earlier this year (before getting shipped off to DVD shelves and video-on-demand sites), audiences may not be in the mood for yet another horror movie parodyespecially considering actual horror movies The Conjuring and […]
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Brian De Palma’s Passion is neither erotic nor thrilling
Passion opens Friday Brian De Palmathat dirty old auteurslides back into erotic-thriller mode with Passion, which isn’t really that erotic or thrilling. A remake of the 2010 French film Crime d’amour, the movie stars Rachel McAdams and Noomi Rapacetheir faces so porcelain and blemish-free it looks like they dipped them in buttermilk before every sceneas […]
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Motorco Music Hall is open for films, and so is the bar
While Motorco Music Hall has been used for many things, from concerts to fashion shows to community game nights to its weekly “Bloody Brunch” on Sundays, co-owner and general manager Jeremy Roth says the place basically lucked out at being a spot for local filmmakers and organizations to show films. “I had built a large […]