Since it's the kind of slow-building movie whose very premise is something of a spoiler, a pretty delicious one, let's get the consumer-guide jazz out of the way first. Hilary Brougher's YA-ish horror satire/romance/whatzit Innocence, adapted from Jane Mendelsohn's novel, boasts a wicked setup, some strong performances, several gloriously bloody...
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If a toddler tried to re-create the mystifying behavior of adults, it would look a lot like Paul Haggis' Third Person, a drama in which grownups scream and cry and kiss for reasons that are confounding even to those who understand speech. The film follows a handful of couples or,...
Have you recovered from Mad Decent Block Party? Last weekend, everything musical in Phoenix paused to give space for what is arguably the largest EDM event that will happen this year. This week, the Phoenix music universe has adjusted, compensating for the overabundance of beats and turntables with a slew...
Editor's note: Harkins Theatres has announced that it will have a limited release of The Interview starting Christmas Day, Thursday, December 25, at Tempe's Valley Art. Sony assumed North Korea would hate the movie. The question was: What would it do? Pyongyang had just tested its atom bomb and threatened...
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Here Are the 2014 Emmy Winners
Even those of us who loved Robin Williams as a performer would have to say that sometimes he was too much -- too wired, too pleading, too on. There were times when I'd see him nattering away on a late-night talk show, or suffer through a performance like the one...
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When Phil Lord and Chris Miller pitched their idea for a 21 Jump Street movie, a film everyone thought was, at best, a moronic moneymaker, they had one bold proposal: "What if the twist is that we try to make it really good?" says Lord. "That's basically a summary of...
First Friday heats up tomorrow with creative works going up all over the city. This month, Phoenix's favorite art-filled evening falls on the Fourth of July. Artlink's First Friday Trolley Tour will be taking a brief hiatus for the holiday weekend, but don't let that deter you. Most galleries and...
The holidays might with over with and done, but its gonna take us a little while to fully decompress, sober up, and allow things to get back to normal. Admittedly, we're not the only ones who are readjusting, and there's no better way to illustrate that than the relative absence...
America's sweetheart Jennifer Lawrence truly can do anything. In the course of three months, she's managed to graciously lose an Oscar (her third nomination in four years), swan above the mansplaining condescension of a male pundit who tsk-tsked her for getting drunk in public, and burst into the summer blockbuster...
Painter Ishmael Dueñas has gathered together an impressive list of some of the art scene's most well known for "Future Shock," a collaborative collection that opens at Grand Avenue's Frontal Lobe Gallery this Friday. The seven-person show is mostly made up of paintings -- which, despite the name, have little...
Last year we marked the hundred day countdown to Best of Phoenix by sharing some of our favorite food folks' "Personal Best" lists. This year we're bringing back our list of 100 Favorite Dishes. Have a suggestion for a dish you'd like us to try? Leave it in the comments...
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The Oscars of the food world will take place today in New York City when the James Beard Foundation honors the country's best food and beverage professionals at the 24th annual James Beard Awards. The event will take place at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center and will...
This week the Valley arts community is mourning the loss of Janis Leonard. The accomplished designer, former board member of the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, and Phoenix arts scene pioneer passed away on Sunday, June 8. She was 55. An environmental design graduate of the Parsons School of Design,...
When Wally Pfister won an Oscar for Inception, his sixth film with Christopher Nolan, he went home and put the statuette on his mantel. "And then it moved to the corner, and then my office, and then the closet because you go away for a few months, and then it...
"It's the secret films you have to watch out for," jokes Richard Linklater of his new movie Boyhood, a furtive experiment that he kept quiet for more than a decade. In 2002, he chose a first-grader named Eller Coltrane, the 6-year-old son of two Texas artists; cast Patricia Arquette and...
The Chateau Marmont is a beautiful anomaly. It's an old Hollywood building in a town of youth worshipers, a quiet refuge and a party palace, and a luxurious spot that thrives on bohemian vibes. Make a slight right heading west on Sunset Boulevard and, suddenly, you're somewhere else. The strip...
The Chateau Marmont is a beautiful anomaly. It's an old Hollywood building in a town of youth worshipers, a quiet refuge and a party palace, and a luxurious spot that thrives on bohemian vibes. Make a slight right heading west on Sunset Boulevard and, suddenly, you're somewhere else. The strip...
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Designing Women
Let's rewind 20 years, to the summer of 1994. O.J. Simpson has been arrested for murder, the World Cup is in America and being ignored, and the biggest hits at the multiplex are Forrest Gump, The Lion King, True Lies, and Speed. Notice anything odd about those movies? There's not...
"Out of your head and into your heart." Throughout our interview with the members of Howl Theatre Project, it was this phrase that kept appearing. By their own admission, this was a bit of a clichéd phrase, particularly for a troupe with such experimental bonafides as theirs. But still, the...
We're still adjusting to Seth MacFarlane as a big-screen star. Not just because his breakneck absurdist humor often demands viewers pause and rewind, but because the man himself looks like a hand-inked cartoon, with his black, pupil-less eyes and an alabaster baby face that, lacking cheekbones that could carve in...