In the Richmond of 2005, Teddy Blanks was everywhere—playing packed shows with Ross Harman as the pop duo The Gaskets, writing sharp film reviews and interviews for the early issues of RVA Magazine, and even acting in a short film that, for me, still holds personal...
It’s remarkable how much or little we have changed in America. Around the center of George Stevens’s 1942 Woman of the Year, recently married couple Sam Craig (Spencer Tracy) and Tess Harding (Katharine Hepburn) are going through a newlywed rough patch and come to the conclusion a child would be a great quick fix. Tess, without much forethought,...
Pantera vocalist Phil Anselmo has teamed up with actor/horror icon Bill Moseley on a new record and while the tunes undoubtedly will rock, a new video promises to also after a weird, terrifying twist to the release. "This video is and down'n'dirty and comes with no strings attached," said Moseley, an actor who has famously slaughtered people on...
As a creative (and sci-fi influenced) writer myself, I have a magnificent appreciation for Prometheus, for both what it did and didn’t do. Call it Zen, but the omission of directness, the constant open-endedness of the questions asked and the overall work required of the viewer are exactly the methods that I use to spin my own fiction. You could...
Bizzaro cults, inter-dimensional evil, tons of blood and gore - all of this and more is promised in The Void which is currently playing at the Bijou Film Center this weekend. The Bijou opened late last year and promised big things from the small film space. While other great things might have come through the Broad St. theatre already, this is...
“I hope you all know that I was not in the movie,” Dr. Christine Darden said and a collective chuckle emerged from the crowd. “So, if you want to know about me, you’ve got to read the book.” Darden, 74, is one of many African American women whose previously un-celebrated work was chronicled in Margot Lee Shetterly’s book, Hidden Figures: The...
We’re all aware of the bustling and ever-growing Richmond music scene, regardless of who you are or what you play. And it’s a scene that’s largely self-made - made possible by a unique sense of community that relies on helping each other out when it comes to getting your name and music out there. That’s what the new local music and film...
We’re all aware of the bustling and ever-growing Richmond music scene, regardless of who you are or what you play. And it’s a scene that’s largely self-made - made possible by a unique sense of community that relies on helping each other out when it comes to getting your name and music out there. That’s what the new local music and film...
Debuting at Cannes last May, Raw follows a teenager named Justine (Garance Marillier) as she begins veterinary school and soon develops carnal, carnivorous desires. Justine’s parents, who drive their timid daughter to school, are oddly both vets and vegetarians, and, Justine seems to follow this logic as well. The first week of Justine’s foray...
Time supposedly heals all wounds. At a certain point one wonders what does and doesn’t matter in a stable, lifelong, longstanding committed romantic relationship. For any couple to even outlast the trials and tribulations that comes with marriage for good length of time is a small miracle. After all, we as individuals are constantly changing,...
