Given our current political predicament, no line in cinema feels more relevant than when Bob Hauk, the police commissioner in Escape from New York, says to Snake Plissken, “The president’s gone missing.” To which Plissken coolly responds, “President of what?” ...
It's 1989 and there's a pulsing electronic soundtrack flowing over the screams of high school kids as they're being chased by demons in a dingy Richmond basement. It's 1989 and there's a pulsing electronic soundtrack flowing over the screams of high school kids as they're being chased by demons in a dingy Richmond basement. This isn't a nightmare...
The legendary anime Princess Mononoke is reaching its 20th anniversary next year and movie theaters around the country, including at least one in the RVA area, are celebrating with a limited The legendary anime Princess Mononoke is reaching its 20th anniversary next year and movie theaters around the country, including at least one in the RVA...
Divorce is hard. The Squid and the Whale, Noah Baumbach’s 2005 semi-autobiographical film about a Reagan-era, bohemian Brooklyn family dealing with a painful and confusing separation, is a humorous composition of a wounded family in denial of martial dissolution. Divorce is hard. The Squid and the Whale, Noah Baumbach’s 2005 semi-autobiographical...
Christine follows the lead-up and death of Christine Chubbuck, a Sarasota TV journalist who committed live, on-camera suicide in 1974. Before shooting herself, Chubbuck read a sardonic statement wherein her death would be incongruent to the “blood and guts” reporting her station had been weaving to. While shocking, her public statement of media...
If being crass were a science, then the Virginia-bred movie star Danny McBride would have a PhD. If being crass were a science, then the Virginia-bred movie star Danny McBride would have a PhD. McBride returned to his home state over the weekend to a sell-out crowd for the 2016 Virginia Film Festival’s special presentation of his and frequent...
Richmond-based electronic artist London Perry or Dazeases, as most of the city has come to know her, has dropped a new video for “Medusa,” just prior to the release of her upcoming album, Crumbs. Richmond-based electronic artist London Perry or Dazeases, as most of the city has come to know her, has dropped a new video for “Medusa,” just prior to...
In the giant grab-bag of comedy ventures that Netflix chooses to reproduce, resurrect or freshly launch, a Christopher Guest mockumentary movie seems like a damn good idea. Since the 80s, Guest has been doing this form of comedy since the “This is…Spinal Tap” days to his directorial debut of 1996’s “Waiting for Guffman” which combined documentary...
It's no question that the Coen Brothers have firmly established themselves as the godfathers of crime-caper storytelling via the silver screen. It's no question that the Coen Brothers have firmly established themselves as the godfathers of crime-caper storytelling via the silver screen. So when Queens-based film collective Cinema Under the...
It’s showtime this Friday. It’s showtime this Friday. The Bijou Film Center will make its grand opening at First Friday, Sept. 2, from 6-10:30 p.m.. Movie buffs can gather, drink beer, wine or soft drinks, and watch a few short movies and a live performance. Terry Rea and James Parrish (founders of the Bijou) hope to move into a slightly bigger...
