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The Hart is a Lonely Brothernew
Kevin Hart is one of comedy's biggest stars—so where's the critical love?
Tags: Kevin Hart, comedy
Spike Jonze's Her is dazzlingnew
Retro-futuristic romance with the most sincere of faces.
Tags: Spike Jonze, Her
Searching for the sugar of yesteryearnew
Fortunately, many small companies still make forgotten cult candies. Here are several places in North Carolina's Triangle where you can find these lost items.
INDY Week |
Craig D. Lindsey |
09-11-2013 |
Food+Drink
Fruitvale Station speaks to post-Trayvon Martin Americanew
It's a sad state of affairs when movies like Fruitvale Station have to show everyone what they should know by now: Black people are people, too.
After a year of tragedy and setback, comedian Tig Notaro returnsnew
Tig Notaro probably has the biggest balls of any comic working today.
A Compelling Tale of NYC Graffiti Artists in Gimme the Lootnew
For his very low-budget debut, writer/director Andre Leon makes a spirited teen comedy with predominantly minority characters, which is damn near amazing in itself.
Tags: graffiti, Gimme the Loot
Chris Tucker is alive and doing very wellnew
Tucker says the $12 million he owed in back taxes "connected me back with my audience. Because they can relate to that, because they got their own problems."
David Chase's feature debut, the nostalgic Not Fade Awaynew
While The Sopranos creator still has trouble knowing how to end a story, he does know how to pen a love letter to rock 'n' roll.
2 Days in New York is crazy from the heartnew
This friskier, wackier sequel to Julie Delpy's 2 Days in Paris finds her character now settled in the Big Apple with Chris Rock's journalist/radio host and their respective kids from other relationships.
Seven Psychopaths gleefully guts crime-movie tropesnew
The second feature from writer/ director/ playwright/ Anglo-Irishman Martin McDonagh continues in the same deconstructive, profanely funny vein he brought to his 2008 debut In Bruges.
Adams Apples is a taste of Gollywoodnew
Adams Apples is a 10-part movie series revolving around three Ghanaian women and the ups and downs they go through with their relationships.
Tags: Adams Apples
Ross McElwee talks his latest film, his Full Frame program and his sonnew
"Savor the experience of sitting in that dark room with other strangers and relating to a world that is not completely your own—in some ways, the opposite of Facebook."
INDY Week |
Craig D. Lindsey |
04-15-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Documentary filmmakers investigate Frank Matthews, 1970s East Coast heroin kingpin and Durham nativenew
"You almost get the impression in Durham that people think he's on the outskirts of town, waiting to hear something bad about him and he's gonna come in and do something."
African Diaspora Film Festival seeks perspective on hip-hopnew
"We want this to be an opportunity for people to talk about not only the positive impact of hip-hop, but also things that aren't so positive about that experience." — Sheila Smith McKoy, director of the NCSU African American Cultural Center
Disappointing Disney adaptation of pulp hero John Carternew
For the last 100 years, John Carter has been an inspirational, beloved hero. Now thanks to this adaptation, a pulp icon will be known as the jerkwad from that lame-ass Disney movie.
Tags: John Carter
