Ararat dir. Egoyan Opens Fri Jan 31 Various Theaters It’s said that Hitler, when asked about how people would react to his undertaking with the Jews before WWII, commented that no one remembered the Armenians, who were slaughtered en masse in Eastern Turkey in 1915. He figured his case would be the same, and in […]
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The Combover, Realized
Do What Makes You Happy
About Schmidt dir. Payne Opens Fri Jan 3 Various Theaters Warren Schmidt has just retired from a long career at an Omaha insurance company. Ostensibly, he is polite, dedicated, old-fashioned–a relic of Midwestern values. But underneath lies a man duped by his own perception of control, a man stuck in a life of habit and […]
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A Hiphop Marching Band
Here’s One Jackson and Sharpton Can Get Behind
Drumline dir. Stone III Opens Fri Dec 13 Various Theaters Drumline, the second feature by Charles Stone III (who got his start behind the taken-too-far Budweiser “Whassup?!” TV spots), is a classic protagonist-as-flawed-hero tale set in a familiar but quirkily esoteric universe; in the vein of, say, Rocky or Showgirls. Nick Cannon is Devon Miles, […]