I’ll admit it–I like gigantic screens, stadium seating, and choose-your-acronym audio as much as the next guy. But, for me and many other Triangle filmgoers, Friday and Saturday nights routinely involve the same sad ritual: 1) drive around the parking lot for 15 minutes, then park so far away from the multiplex that you consider […]
Neil Morris
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A tale of two costume dramas
William Makepeace Thackeray’s seminal Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero exposes the greed and corruption within English aristocracy during the turbulent Napoleonic wars by tracing the shifting fate of two women. The first, Becky Sharp, is a lower-class scrub who employs her wit, guile and sex appeal to traverse London high society. The other […]
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Rah-rah for Raleighwood (and much, much more)
The Triangle’s exponential population growth and development over the past decade, coupled with our ubiquitous university amenities and collegiate culture, has spawned a unique boon for local filmgoers–a thriving (sometimes contentious) coexistence between burgeoning multiplexes and an abundant assortment of art-house alternatives unavailable even in larger regional markets like Charlotte and Nashville. That said, here […]