Blues Bash takes over the Lowcountry
The Lowcountry is blessed with an abundance of cultural festivals and expositions. From wildlife to food and wine, Spoleto to MOJA, it seems there is always something interesting to experience ...
Sex and guilt, repression and self-deception are the cornerstones of "A Dangerous Method." The eerie, elegant film charts the mentoring partnership, growing envy and bitter rift between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, the fathers of psychoanalysis.
'Big Miracle' ; 'Chronicle'
On today's edition of "Smart Women, Stupid Choices": Katherine Heigl! She left a halfway decent medical soap opera for a string of increasingly mediocre, decreasingly romantic "comedies" pairing her with increasingly bland leading men.
The title isn't an exaggeration. It was something of a "Big Miracle," the way the plight of a family of gray whales, stranded under the Alaska ice, captivated the country and forced oil men and environmentalists, natives and Cold War foes to team up back in the waning days of ...
The trappings may look familiar, but "The Innkeepers" is a new twist on the old-fashioned ghost story: It's the bored-slacker horror movie.
Teenagers acquire super powers and, being teenagers, videotape themselves as they learn what they can do in "Chronicle," an entertaining comic-book movie without the comic book.
Much as I like the "Paranormal Activity" pictures for their unfashionable minimalism and quaintly Victorian lack of gore, it's nice to get back to something like "The Woman in Black" -- not authentic Victoriana, exactly (Susan Hill's novel was published in 1983), and certainly not afraid of a little muck ...
Summerville native's film wins Yahoo!/Sundance 2012 Shorts Competition
'Red Tails' ; 'The Grey'
Those who bemoan the public's sometimes low opinion of journalists should watch "Nothing Sacred," a 1937 comedy showing that scorn for the press is hardly new. Restored in its original Technicolor on a Kino DVD, the film is one of Hollywood's funniest putdowns of the Fourth Estate.
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