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How to Become a Registered Tour Guidenew
Do you think Charleston became Conde Nast Traveler's top tourist destination by hiring tour guides off the street? Chances are, most of us have a few friends who are fine to slug a beer with, but they're not exactly the faces of our city that tourists should see.
Charleston City Paper |
Stratton Lawrence |
12-31-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Charleston Tour Guides
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo remake has same badass heroinenew
Nothing in David Fincher's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo quite lives up to the menacing, ambiguous, death-metal rapturous credit sequence that opens the director's adaptation of the best-selling Stieg Larsson novel of the same name.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
12-22-2011 |
Reviews
In Young Adult, Charlize Theron Doesn’t Want to Grow Upnew
A toxic spin on all of those cutesy chick flicks where career girls yearn for marriage, the latter film is the convention-busting story of semi-slovenly, semi-slatternly 37-year-old Mavis Gary (Charlize Theron), who is hellbent on busting up a marriage.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
12-15-2011 |
Reviews
In Take Shelter, Michael Shannon Defines Slow-burn Agonynew
Set in a rural Ohio of backyard rubbish piles and church suppers, Take Shelter is a skin-crawling heartland thriller in which visions of disaster haunt family man Curtis (Michael Shannon).
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
12-08-2011 |
Reviews
Depression, destruction, and selfishness play out in Melancholianew
In the first half of Melancholia, Justine (Kirsten Dunst) slowly but surely sabotages her own wedding reception, and you can't really blame her, because there is no one there who doesn't demand something from her or from the occasion.
Charleston City Paper |
Susan Cohen |
12-07-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Melancholia
Anna and Jacob love each other Like Crazy, despite visa issuesnew
Not since Green Card has so much romance been yoked to the ox cart of bureaucracy.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
11-28-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Like Crazy
Martha Marcy May Marlene is Creepy, Sexy, and Very Stylizednew
A semi-sinister little film with the eerie, sunlit ambiance of headspace thrillers like Rosemary's Baby or the original The Stepford Wives, Martha Marcy May Marlene presents a young woman trapped between two worlds.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
11-16-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Martha Marcy May Marlene
Filmmaker Stephen Cone premieres The Wise Kidsnew
For Stephen Cone, church has always been a part of life. The son of a Baptist minister, he remembers going there three times a week for 18 years. In the same breath, Cone is also a self-proclaimed lifelong lover of film, with movies and religion playing an equal role in his youth.
Charleston City Paper |
Ryan Overhiser |
11-14-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Stephen Cone, The Wise Kids
Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar is a Sympathetic Portrait of a Closeted Mannew
A fascinating portrait of an influential American, J. Edgar presents Hoover (Leonardo DiCaprio) as a flawed but prescient figure whose public role building the FBI into an important institution is contrasted with a private life as a closeted gay man devoted to his right-hand man Clyde Tolson (Armie Hammer), who became a devoted soulmate.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
11-10-2011 |
Reviews
NASA-Funded Halsey Exhibit Explores Lunar Historynew
Galileo created the first telescope in the 17th century, and now, 400 years later, we've got Google Moon, an application that allows users to get a live satellite view of the lunar surface. In 2009, scientists found water on the moon, and College of Charleston Professor Cassandra Runyon was one of the lead scientists in the discovery.
Charleston City Paper |
Amy Stockwell Mercer |
11-10-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Margin Call's Ensemble Cast Exhibits the Perversities of Wall Streetnew
The world documented in the financial thriller Margin Call feels almost like ancient history by now. Set back in the good ole days when many Americans were still living high on the hog, the film takes place in a Manhattan investment bank on the precipice of the 2008 financial meltdown.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
11-03-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Margin Call, Margin's Call
Tucker and Dale vs. Violent Coincidencesnew
We live in a post-Shaun of the Dead world. Not only can the comedy horror film be done, but it can be done well — and it can make a lot of money. The key is character development. Zombieland worked. Jennifer's Body? Not so much. Written and directed by Eli Craig, Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil sits comfortably somewhere between the two. Set in the utterly terrifying landscape of West Virginia, the hyperbolically named film employs an interesting concept: What if the villains in the typical slasher film weren't really all that bad? What if it was all in the minds of their "victims"?
Charleston City Paper |
Susan Cohen |
11-03-2011 |
Reviews
Redux Gets a Fresh Injection From New Director, Studio Spacenew
Redux is breathing. It's not just the gallery installation by Liz Miller that greets you at the door, a delicate, yet somehow aggressive creation of felt, foam, and paper that resembles fire-breathing dragons. It's more to do with the children running to their painting class, with the art that is everywhere, and the artists who are calmly going about their daily work of creation. Redux just might be the heart and heartbeat of Charleston's living art scene, and you can feel it as soon as you step through the door.
Charleston City Paper |
Elizabeth Pandolfi |
11-03-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Human Centipede II is a Meta-Sequel that Doesn’t Say Anythingnew
Shot in stark black and white, the film starts out on macabre ground: There is a dumpy, bug-eyed parking garage security guard named Martin, who does his job while engaging in his favorite hobby, watching Human Centipede for the 189th time on his computer.
Charleston City Paper |
Kevin Young |
10-20-2011 |
Reviews
Actions speak louder than words in Deaf Jamnew
Deaf Jam is a documentary you can't take your eyes off of. If you do, you're probably missing the point.
Charleston City Paper |
Abigail Darlington |
10-19-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Deaf Jam
