Virginia Repertory Theatre is gearing up for the holidays with a new staging of A Christmas Carol, adapted and directed by Artistic Director Rick Hammerly. The production opens November 28 and runs through December 28 at the November Theatre, and if ambition counts...
“We don’t need a leader. We need a conscience.”-Ahmed Hassan Before watching The Square, I had little to no knowledge of the events of the revolution in Egypt over the last few years. I was shocked, and admittedly disappointed in myself, for not even being semi-conscious about the suffering, the fighting, the deaths, and the measures Egypt’s...
Honesty is a difficult thing to come by in the real world. It’s even harder to find in relationships. And once it’s found, it requires more than enough from the people involved to maintain. Director Cameron Crowe’s 1989 film Say Anything shows audiences young and old the value of honesty in any loving relationship. Say Anything is a brilliant...
Director Jim Jarmusch has given us many amazing films over the course of his career. His contributions to cinema have been paramount since the 1980s. Jarmusch’s most expensive film to date, and perhaps his most enigmatic, is the 1995 independent film Dead Man. Dead Man stars Johnny Depp, John Hurt, Billy Bob Thornton, Alfred Molina, Iggy Pop,...
Last year, a documentary shattered the bright and shiny illusion that aquatic theme parks, specifically Sea World, have given us over time. This documentary illustrates in alarming detail aspects of life at Sea World, as well as other aquatic theme parks, which kidnap killer whale cubs from their family pods and raise them in captivity for the...
Every Christmas holiday, we as a society are saturated with TV and film specials made in the spirit of celebrating the season. The excitement is so great that it takes over both November and December. After two months of non-stop Christmas cheer, it makes Christmas slightly anti-climactic. This is the reason why BBC’s Blackadder’s Christmas Carol...
Sometimes you get unlucky: the holes in your pocket break their borders and become one. You slip and drop every last banana-shaped salt shaker your mother ever made. Maybe your job left, and you fired your wife and kids. Or your roof decided your bed needed to see the stars. Or maybe you are Dave, co-owner of All For One Tattoo, and the world and...
Update: Sadly this print is already sold out, but we wanted to let folks know the option is available and maybe more prints will get released. The folks at Art Whino are supporting Etam Cru as they begin to sell prints of one of the most recognizable images from the Richmond Mural Project. Update: Sadly this print is already sold out, but we...
The local PBS station, WCVE show Virginia Currents shows off some of the best our fair state has to offer. The local PBS station, WCVE show Virginia Currents shows off some of the best our fair state has to offer. In a segment from last month, they highlighted the work RVA Mag, Art Whino, and the city did to make the Richmond Mural project...
Anthology is one of the most entertaining and unique formats in film today. An anthology can be described as one film made up of many shorter plot lines with many different characters that sometimes cross paths. The point of the film is generally an abstract idea or an elemental focus rather than the achievement of any specific overall plot or...
