The House of the Devil opens Friday in select theaters Oh my gosh, is this movie terrifying. I watched an advance DVD one night last week, all alone in my house. About midway through, I seriously considered turning it off. “Get a grip,” I told myself, just as the heroine of the film in question, […]
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Ex-RailHawk Caleb Patterson eligible for MLS expansion draft
It’s a bit of a relief to take a break from the Sturm und Drang of the North American soccer second division to simply note a bit of interesting RailHawks player news: Caleb Patterson (sometimes called Caleb Patterson Sewell), the sparkling young goalkeeper who split time with Eric Reed last year, was left unprotected by […]
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Main Street, the Photoshopped movie poster
Remember all those Colin Firth and Orlando Bloom sightings last summer? Well, the movie they were shooting, Main Street, just made a stop at one of the stations of the indie-film cross by being screened at the American Film Market earlier this month. The AFM is an international film bazaar in which hopeful producers show […]
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Girl gets schooled in vibrant An Education
An Education opens Friday in select theaters Sex and love is the great subject of movies, but compelling treatments of it are relatively rare. Great romantic filmsAlfred Hitchcock’s Notorious and David Lean’s Brief Encounter are a couple of the bestare able to convey the terrible melancholy of heartache and the dizzying ecstasy of falling in […]
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Cucalorus and Carrboro film festivals
Attending Wilmington’s Cucalorus Film Festival is always an opportunity to take the temperature of the industry and a convenient excuse to keep very late hours among the young and the restless of the Port City. And then there’s the lineup of films: a potpourri of North Carolina indie efforts, often produced in the Wilmington area; […]
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UNC and NC State kick the ball in the rain; Wolfpack keeper Widman saves the day
WAKE MED SOCCER PARK/ CARYIt was a hideous day to be outdoors, and the collateral wind and water from Tropical Storm Ida just about ruined everyone’s day in Cary. Eight ACC men’s soccer teams were scheduled to play consecutive games, but not even a daytime visit from Lilian Thuram could coax activity on the field. […]
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The world ends again in Roland Emmerich’s 2012
⇒ See also: “So what’s up with this 2012 date?“ 2012 opens Thursday throughout the Triangle If you squint during 2012, you can see the story as a series of panels in a graphic novel or comic book, with broadly drawn, and acted, characters saying punchy, boldface things like, “If you want to give your […]
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Carolina RailHawks to join new league; plan is to begin in April 2010
UPDATE 6:39 p.m.: The intrigue thickens with this statement from the USL. Key points: The USL opposes the new league application “on the grounds that there is misrepresentation, interference with USL business operations and substantial debt amongst the membership of the parties applying for certification.” Furthermore, in what seems to be a tart point directed […]
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Wellman: RailHawks and TOA to submit new league application “as soon as tomorrow”; updates on Richardson, Paladini; next year’s friendlies may include EPL side
In an interview Thursday afternoon, Carolina RailHawks president Brian Wellman confirmed that the dissident group of USL-1 club owners known as the Team Owners Association (TOA) would be submitting an application to the United States Soccer Federation (USSF) to form a new league. “We’ll be submitting an application to USSF for a new league as […]
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Waiting it out: Putting a fine point on Beckett’s Waiting for Godot
Indy freelancer Sam Wardle attended opening night of The Classical Theatre of Harlem’s production of Waiting for Godot. Here’s his report. Waiting for Godot Performed by The Classical Theatre of Harlem Duke Campus: Reynolds Industries Theater Friday, Oct 23 “Why people have to complicate a thing so simple, I can’t make out,” playwright Samuel Beckett […]
