Virginia Tech survivor Colin Goddard in Barbara Kopple’s Gun Fight Indy scribes fanned out through theaters Thursday. It was gratifying to see familiar faces, and healthy attendance in the rooms. A few thoughts about Day 1 before we dash off for Day 2. Kate Dobbs Ariail writes in about The Pipe: My dumpster-diving vegan, abandoned […]
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The Last Night of Ballyhoo at Raleigh Little Theatre
Last Night of Ballyhoo Raleigh Little Theatre Through April 24 The Last Night of Ballyhoo is Alfred Uhry’s other big play, after, of course, Driving Miss Daisy. In Ballyhoo, which receives an enjoyable, if somewhat stiff, staging from Raleigh Little Theatre, the setting is Atlanta, Ga., in 1939, when the two big events are the […]
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The Mercy Seat at Raleigh Ensemble Players
The Mercy Seat Raleigh Ensemble Players Through April 16 Seven or eight years ago, I started reading Neil LaBute’s The Mercy Seat, his play about a New York couple at a crossroads in their furtive affair on Sept. 12, 2001. It seems that they are co-workers in a building near the World Trade Center site, […]
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The daunting struggles of Africa’s big cats in National Geographic’s The Last Lions
The Last Lions opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: If you want to see lions in all their raging glory, lions are what you’ll get in The Last Lions, a new National Geographic film that features awesome shots of the giant felines in Botswana. But this film is a nature documentary […]
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Winter’s bone, Appalachian spring
Cancer, our dreaded acquaintance, has been paying frequent calls this past year. On Saturday, it came for a man we briefly knew, America’s leading redneck socialist, a writer named Joe Bageant. Although Joe was long known among America’s cadre of radical underground journalists, he labored in obscurity for much of his career. He downsized to […]
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Certified Copy, an Italian romance from the Iranian master, Abbas Kiarostami
Certified Copy opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: One of the ironies of the use of special effects in movies is their literal-mindedness: That is, by pouring millions of dollars into computer-generated imagery, film producers try to bludgeon us into thinking we’re seeing something new and magical, when what we’re actually […]
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No more working for the man in Made in Dagenham
Made in Dagenham opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: A tale set in the turbulent 1960s, against the backdrop of consumer culture and concerned with, among other things, the struggle of women to be taken seriously in the workplace, Made in Dagenham is not Mad Men. But it was of Mad […]
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What’s hazardous waste? Main Street trailer released on YouTube
No one is more disappointed than we are that Main Street, the Colin Firth-starring film that was produced in Durham two years ago, seems to be stuck in straight-to-DVD purgatory. The late Horton Foote, the author of the screenplay, is an American theatrical treasure who lasted longer—if burned less brightly—than his greater contemporaries Tennessee Williams, […]
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RailHawks hold off Seahawks: Trialists score in 2-0 victory over UNC-Wilmington. Rennie talks prospects.
Photo by Triangle Offense Picture GnomeThe ATM machine shines brightly in the gloom of the Cary evening.Let’s hope it works all season long. WAKEMED SOCCER PARK/ CARY—The Carolina RailHawks began their preseason training last week, five and a half weeks before the April 9 start of the regular season, and a mere 19 days before […]
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Kevin Spacey as Casino Jack Abramoff
Casino Jack opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: Remember Jack Abramoff? The scandals that erupted around this so-called super-lobbyist resulted in a sweeping Democratic takeover of the United States Congress back in 2006 and helped pave the way for the cleansing audacity of hope in 2008. Back then, he was an […]
