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Let's celebrate 100 years of the Titanic with a 3-D movienew
I already knew that Jack would die.
Charleston City Paper |
Susan Cohen |
04-05-2012 |
Movies
Filmmaker explores an outsider’s view of My Americanew
The oil-hungry, debt-loaded America of today is no longer the big-action Reagan-driven America that Hegedus fell so in love with, and in My America, Hegedus has to come to terms with this realization.
Charleston City Paper |
Susan Cohen |
04-04-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: My America
The Rural Route Film Festival reinterprets remotenessnew
Since it was founded in 2002, the Rural Route Film Festival has garnered submissions from all around the world, from shorts to full-length features, uniting city slickers and country folk in a like-minded community.
Charleston City Paper |
Alex Keith |
04-02-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Colin Quashie's pointed response to the world around himnew
It may be difficult to spot Colin Quashie's second-story studio if you aren't explicitly looking for it. An indistinct C and Q pasted to a glass door are the only clues that something else goes on in this standalone brick-and-concrete building on Upper King Street besides the haircuts that take place in the first-floor barber shop. It doesn't help that the logo gives a better impression of a cloud than a formal set of initials, the puffy and bulbous letters joined together in a cartoonish fashion. So instead, a better sign of what happens on the second story may be in the downstairs shop, where one of Quashie's works hangs on a wall near the wide windows.
Charleston City Paper |
Susan Cohen |
03-31-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Hunger Games is a toned-down version of the dystopic booknew
At its best, this successful, though not overwhelming film adaptation of The Hunger Games lampoons the tawdry neon shades, effusive razzle dazzle, and spectacles of debasement and triumph in contemporary American entertainment.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
03-26-2012 |
Reviews
Hilarity Does Not Ensue in Friends with Kidsnew
No matter where you fall on the reproductive continuum -- married, unmarried, childless, or with child -- you'll likely find something to relate to in the egg-meets-sperm romantic comedy Friends with Kids.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
03-26-2012 |
Reviews
Emotionally stunted siblings connect in Jeff, Who Lives at Homenew
The perpetually stoned Jeff's mojo kicks in when he gets a "random" phone call that promises to jumpstart his destiny.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
03-18-2012 |
Reviews
21 Jump Street is a successful rebootnew
Directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller make their live-action feature film debut here, clearly taking a page from the playbook of The Brady Bunch Movie and crafting a modern-day tale while winking satirically at the core tenets of the old TV show.
Charleston City Paper |
Isaac Weeks |
03-18-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: 21 Jump Street
Colbert Report Unexpectedly Cancels Tapingsnew
The Colbert Report has canceled two scheduled days of filming this week.
Charleston City Paper |
Susan Cohen |
02-16-2012 |
TV
The Other F Word shows what happens to punks when they have kidsnew
The Other F Word, a documentary by Andrea Blaugrund Nevins, explores a very specific facet of aging and what occurs when men with forehead tattoos and their own daddy issues procreate.
Charleston City Paper |
Susan Cohen |
02-01-2012 |
Reviews
Spoiler site claims Elise Testone makes American Idol top 42new
If an American Idol spoiler site is right, Charleston's very own Elise Testone wins over Randy, JLo, and Steven, landing in the singing contest's top 42.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Lesemann |
01-18-2012 |
TV
The Artist recalls a time of cultural changenew
Movies don't get much more ebullient, charming, and heart-skippingly cute than the romantic comedy The Artist, which has edged its way into many critical best lists.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
01-18-2012 |
Reviews
Carnage is Roman Polanski’s real-time brawl between flawed parentsnew
Roman Polanski's film is the real-time encounter between two sets of parents — the bordering-on-mediocrity Penelope (Jodie Foster) and Michael (John C. Reilly) Longstreet and the obviously wealthier Nancy (Kate Winslet) and Alan (Christoph Waltz) Cowan — following a scuffle between their sons.
Charleston City Paper |
Susan Cohen |
01-11-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: Roman Polanski, Carnage (2011)
Meryl Streep’s Iron Lady is fiction laced with truthnew
British director Phyllida Lloyd, who worked with Streep on Mamma Mia!, takes an interesting, occasionally misguided track in their new collaboration, documenting Thatcher's life in reverse.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
01-11-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady
No, John Waters, Kaboom is not one of the best films of the yearnew
When I saw that director and Baltimorean John Waters had drawn up his own for the top films of 2011 for Art Forum, I perked up.
Charleston City Paper |
Susan Cohen |
01-02-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
