John Hodgman Is Coming to Mesa — With a Very Special Guest
Um, take note, Game of Thrones fans.
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Here’s Everything You Need to Know About Monster Market in Tempe This Weekend
Victor Moreno debuts a Halloween-centric event.
10 Nerdy Things to Do This October in Metro Phoenix
Film, horror, and some Edgar Allan Poe.
Costume Drama Victoria & Abdul Simplifies a Fascinating Victorian Friendship
Lording over the colonies is all bore and bother for the queen in Stephen Frears’ sumptuous yet centerless Victoria & Abdul. The film dramatizes Queen Victoria’s spirited friendship with Abdul Karim, a charming clerk from northern India who — in this telling — jolts the Empress of India from her…
Woodshock is the Rare Drug Movie That Suggests What It’s Actually Like to Do Drugs
Please accept what follows as a considered statement, arrived at through observation and experience, and not as film-review hype or boilerplate: Kate Mulleavy and Laura Mulleavy’s Woodshock is the rare drug movie that, as you watch it, if you surrender to it, stirs the sensations of having taken drugs. I’m…
Toronto Film Festival: The Death of Stalin is the Political Satire We Need Now
April Wolfe is reporting for us from the Toronto International Film Festival. Dictators are a certain kind of selfish, insecure insanity made manifest, and if you’re going to study them, Joseph Stalin is a good place to start. “Stalin” wasn’t even his real name. When he was 30, he changed…
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Toronto Film Festival: Weep Over Chloe Zhao’s Exquisite Real-Life Western, The Rider
April Wolfe is reporting for us from the Toronto International Film Festival. I’d gone into the theater knowing nothing of the Chloe Zhao’s The Rider except that my colleague Bilge Ebiri adored it — and that I’d get to to witness some breathtaking cinematography capturing the dusky pastels streaking the…
Toronto Film Festival: Being Broke’s a Ball in Sean Baker’s Joyous, Vibrant Florida Project
L.A. Weekly film critic April Wolfe is reporting for us from the Toronto International Film Festival. Filmmaking is not a poor man’s game. Even as digital cameras get cheaper, making a festival-worthy film still requires dough to get off the ground, which means the folks who tell stories through cinema…
Toronto Film Festival: Dee Rees’ American Epic Mudbound Should be Taught in History Classes
LA Weekly film critic April Wolfe is reporting for us from the Toronto International Film Festival. Writer-director Dee Rees is breaking all the rules with her third feature, Mudbound. In film school, they tell you, “No voiceovers,” yet this film about two WWII and post-war Mississippi families — one black, one…
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Grace Jones and Jane Goodall Were the Real Stars of the Toronto International Film Festival
LA Weekly film critic April Wolfe is reporting for us from the Toronto International Film Festival. The documentary section of TIFF has a reputation for programming the types of films that can easily compete for audience attention with the narrative juggernauts, and this year is no different. From Agnes Varda’s wacky…
American Made Finds the Top Gun Taking Aim at Patriotic Profiteering
American Made is a Tom Cruise movie worthy of its leading man.
Blade Runner 2049 Summons Up a Bleakly Gorgeous Tomorrow — But Is it Enough?
Denis Villeneuve picks up where Ridley Scott left off, with mostly successful results.
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Here’s Lineup for “Chaos Theory 18” in Downtown Phoenix
Looks like it’ll be bigger than ever.
Best Things to Do This Weekend: Arizona Cardinal, She Loves Me, Cerberus Cup
Comedy, The Crypt, and a corn maze.
Dear Phoenix: A Longtime Resident Apologizes to the City He Once Hated
I take it all back. Every last word of it. And, if you’ll have me, I promise to stay.
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Superstitious Phoenix
From the city’s first residents to chefs, musicians and merchants, Phoenicians are full of superstitions. Here are a few.
In the Company of Strangers
I took Robert’s card, but deep down, I simply wasn’t 100 percent with this cleansing-out-spirits-communing-with-the-supernatural concept.
Baptizing the Dead
Though I had a limited understanding of Mormon teachings, what I gathered was that souls who were not baptized while on Earth would spend eternity in some sort of spirit layover — a big, busy, celestial Grand Central Station.
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So Far, So Good
Jewish tradition holds that you don’t have a baby shower until after the baby is born. So when my new neighbors proposed a baby shower before my daughter’s birth, I paused.
The Rock Gods
Anyone faced with the possibility of imminent death may cling to an irrational belief — something that’s expected to control the one thing they have no control over: luck.
Something About Mary
Celestial beams of green, orange, and yellow light would fan out from behind the tall, bronze figure of the Virgin Mother on the church’s altar, and the statue would take human form.
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Judge Sides with Phoenix Chinese Cultural Center Preservationists
But this isn’t the end of the fight.