Predicting the future is a murky, and often pessimistic, business, but the movies have been doing it with varying degrees of success almost since their inception. FilmBar is holding a summer-long series in conjunction with Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination that looks back at cinematic interpretations…
In 2013, a 22-year-old Palestinian named Mohammed Assaf won the second edition of the Middle Eastern singing competition Arab Idol, a spinoff of the same popular British Pop Idol franchise that also gave us American Idol. Mohammed had snuck out of Gaza and crashed the auditions in Egypt before making…
There’s reason for skepticism when you hear that a new documentary plays like a thriller. That suggests that the filmmakers have favored suspense over documenting — that the specifics of real life will be arranged according to the logic of plotting rather than reportage. Will Allen’s sunny gut-punch cult exposé, Holy…
Every other year, New Times puts the spotlight on Phoenix’s creative forces — painters, dancers, designers, and actors. Leading up to the release of Best of Phoenix, we’re taking a closer look at 100 more. Welcome to the 2016 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today is 95. Jessie Balli. Jessie Balli…
On June 24, Disney Channel will première the release of its 100th original movie, a remake of the 1987 film Adventures in Babysitting. It joins the ranks of some seriously iconic films that feature family fun and life lessons. To celebrate, Disney’s dedicating this Memorial Day Weekend to broadcasting an impressive…
Downtown Phoenix’s annual Zombie Walk has apparently been laid to the grave — or at least it seems that way. Organizers of the family-friendly Halloween season event, which involves thousands of Valley residents dressing as zombies and stumbling through downtown every October, recently announced its cancellation. And it’s not due…
When the apocalypse comes, it will be accompanied by Mark Knopfler’s guitar. At least according to Joe Hill. The horror and comic-book author’s latest novel, The Fireman, is a fresh take on the end times mixed with 1980s nostalgia and a spoonful of sugar. The novel follows Harper, a Mary…
Meg McNiel hunches over a small table in her Central Phoenix tattoo studio. Inside, the place is clean and virtually brand new, but it’s just another door in an old, beat-up strip mall from the outside. Although she’s only been in the space for months, the teal walls are smothered…
Postpartum OCD is a real-life condition worthy of horror films. New moms fight off intrusive thoughts about someone killing or stealing their baby — or killing their baby themselves — and it’s surprisingly common. Since some of the best genre films play off of our ingrained paranoia, writer-director David Farr…
Every other year, New Times puts the spotlight on Phoenix’s creative forces — painters, dancers, designers, and actors. Leading up to the release of Best of Phoenix, we’re taking a closer look at 100 more. Welcome to the 2016 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today is 96. Beth Cato. “When I…
New Times picks the best things to do in metro Phoenix from Monday, May 23, to Thursday, May 26. For more events, see our curated online calendar. Swipe Right for Awesomeness Gone are the days of choosing a date under the harsh light of last call. Instead, we spend endless seconds…
Anyone who’s gotten lost in an unfamiliar neighborhood knows there’s more to the Valley’s homes than faux adobe. And while there’s certainly no shortage of annual home tours dedicated to the central city’s historic neighborhoods, those who enjoy peeking into and poking around strangers’ homes had another opportunity to do…
Ballet Arizona returned to Desert Botanical Garden this season with a new site-specific work called Round, choreographed by artistic director Ib Andersen. His first site-specific production for the Desert Botanical Garden, titled Topia, premièred there in 2012 – and was so well-received that it returned in 2013. Topia set a…
There was a time when the summer movie season was a season, sandwiched between Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends. By the 21st century, the start date drifted back to the first weekend in May. This year, the superhero flicks started arriving with Deadpool’s release on February 12. Only two…
Something troubling is afoot in Westeros: The heroes are beginning to outnumber the villains. The sixth season of Game of Thrones has already seen Jon Snow’s return from the dead, Arya Stark’s vision restored and — courtesy of two Stark children’s long-awaited reunion — the show’s first-ever tears of joy…
The guiding principle of Lewis Carroll’s classics Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass is that logic does not exist. You tumble down rabbit holes and into mirrors willy-nilly, and you try to survive, feeling what you feel, having fun when you can — oh, and try not to drown…
This should go without saying, but these days it doesn’t: Ido Haar’s globe-straddling crowd-pleaser of a doc Presenting Princess Shaw showcases real footage of the key moments of the story that it’s telling. That’s a joy and a thrill. When its subject’s life changes, and she discovers that the art…
Every other year, New Times puts the spotlight on Phoenix’s creative forces — painters, dancers, designers, and actors. Leading up to the release of Best of Phoenix, we’re taking a closer look at 100 more. Welcome to the 2016 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today is 97. Danny Neumann. Danny Neumann…
Every week, we will be recapping the first season of Fuller House, episode by episode. In Episode 11 of Fuller House, our main ladies take small steps toward bigger leaps that will likely reshape their lives in these last few episodes, and certainly for season two. It’s great to…
If long distance is the wrong distance, what would you call an online relationship, one where the couple has never met? Guess we’ll find out with Oxygen Media’s new series Virtually in Love, a look at a collection of couples traveling the world to finally meet after a month to…
Downtown Phoenix’s Roosevelt Row neighborhood has a new piece of public art. And it’s likely to be a lot less controversial than the Shadow Play sculpture installed just few blocks away last fall. Created by Tempe artist Such Styles, it’s a mural-style montage of iconic Valley of the Sun imagery from desert landscapes to…
Every other year, New Times puts the spotlight on Phoenix’s creative forces — painters, dancers, designers, and actors. Leading up to the release of Best of Phoenix, we’re taking a closer look at 100 more. Welcome to the 2016 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today is 98. Jessica Rowe. Jessica Rowe…
