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Lumina Theater to Go Dark at the End of the Summer
The independent movie theater is closing after nineteen years due to dwindling attendance, owners say. Read more
Jul. 23, 2019
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Poet Lamar Wilson on His Annual Thirteen-Mile Run to Protest a Lynching
Every year, Wilson, the producer and subject of documentary short The Changing Same, retraces the path of the brutal 1934 lynching of Claude Neal. Read more
Jul. 19, 2019
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Stranger Things Season Three Drops July 4. Here's a Look Back at the Duffer Brothers' Nostalgia for Eighties-Era Durham.
Writer Zack Smith revisits a 2016 interview with Matt and Ross Duffer, identical twins from Durham and creators of the beloved Netflix series, Stranger Things. Read more
Jul. 04, 2019
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Think Generation Z Doesn't Love The Beatles? Think Again.
I’ve been called everything from a purveyor of fake news to a “commie” since joining the INDY staff, but the most personally offensive thing I’ve heard on the job is that our own arts editor doesn't like The Beatles. Read more
Jul. 01, 2019
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An Underachieving Villain Drags Down Spider-Man's European Vacation
It doesn't bode well for "Spider-Man: Far From Home" that its Venice, Berlin, Prague, and London all feel like Busch Gardens in August, and Jake Gyllenhaal's Mysterio falls flat. Read more
Jun. 27, 2019
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"Toy Story 4," a Kids' Movie About a Googly-Eyed Spork in Severe Ontological Distress
Trash that doesn't want to be a toy and a toy that doesn't want to be trash make for a half-daring, half-predictable next-gen version of the franchise. Read more
Jun. 20, 2019
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"Men in Black: International" Seems to Know It's the Reboot No One Was Clamoring For
What if "Men in Black," but Morocco and Chris Hemsworth's torso? Read more
Jun. 14, 2019
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French Sex Comedy "Non-Fiction" Stirs Up Old Anxieties About New Media
This isn't Olivier Assayas's best, but fine actors such as Juliette Binoche make the most of a script cribbed from decade-old think pieces. Read more
Jun. 07, 2019
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Buster Keaton Ballet Meets Bloody Sam Peckinpah in "John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum"
Whoa. Read more
May 16, 2019
