Director José Padilha's long-delayed RoboCop reboot has arrived, and it's neither an unalloyed (see what I did there?) triumph nor the travesty that partisans of Paul Verhoeven's subversive Reagan-era classic had feared. At least, and at most, it's different, taking bold liberties with the original text, as remakes should. One...
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"Closure: Paintings From JB Snyder" J.B. Snyder, a local artist known for making a splash by adding color to deserted landscapes, is trying something new-ish: an art show within four walls, not on them. His first solo show since 2010's "Fragments of Happiness" at The Quincy, "Closure" includes approximately 25...
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Accessories and high heels are impractical choices for a day in the life of Casey Hagarty. The 27-year-old Phoenix Art Museum curatorial assistant usually sports a monochromatic uniform of black skinny jeans, boots, nice tee shirts and clean blazers. Which is great, the Phoenix native says, since she needs to...
Your patience is about to be rewarded. Now that we're quickly approaching the moment when all the you-know-what begins to fade, life will start getting back to normal in the Valley. And by normal, we mean must-see music events and gigs out the ying-yang. Over the coming weeks, show both...
Folk music is supposed to be the music of the people. Yet at the heart of Joel and Ethan Coen's Inside Llewyn Davis, set in New York in the winter of 1961, is a folk singer with no feeling for people. Llewyn Davis, played by Oscar Isaac, is a broke,...
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Man, woman, gay, straight, bi: There's something for everyone in 300: Rise of an Empire, the XXL sequel to the also-larger-than-life Greeks-in-shinguards extravaganza 300. In that picture, directed by Zack Snyder and based on Frank Miller's graphic novel about the three-day Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C., the Spartans and...
Man, woman, gay, straight, bi: There's something for everyone in 300: Rise of an Empire, the XXL sequel to the also-larger-than-life Greeks-in-shinguards extravaganza 300. In that picture, directed by Zack Snyder and based on Frank Miller's graphic novel about the three-day Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C., the Spartans and...
Three types of artists hinge on authenticity: punk bands, folk singers, and rappers. Actors, like Oscar Isaac, are phonies by definition. But the star of the Joel and Ethan Coen's new film, Inside Llewyn Davis, gets that pressure to keep it real. In high school, he was a straight-edge punk...
The setup: Tracy Letts' epic, relentlessly dismal yet moving and entertaining August: Osage County won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and came through Tempe on a national tour four years ago. Since then, Julia Roberts and Ewan McGregor have grown old enough to play middle-aged in the film version...
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Elfed-Up Kicks
© Beth Dubber, Courtesy of Sundance InstituteKristen Stewart in Camp X-Ray.Kristen Stewart spent five Twilight films getting rescued by werewolves and vampires. Consider Camp X-Ray her rebuttal to a half-decade of playing damsels in distress. As Guantanamo guard Private Cole, Stewart is punched, bloodied, and spat on -- and that's...
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In her new novel, Palmerino, Melissa Pritchard reinvents the life and loves of 19th-century British writer Vernon Lee, born Violet Paget, who is best (although not widely) known today for her supernatural fiction, her inquiries into aesthetics, and her habit of dressing a la garconne, or like a man. Part...
By Kiko Martinez She may not have fully understood what it meant to be an actress when she was only 5 years old, but somehow Kaitlyn Dever instinctively knew it was what she wanted to do for the rest of her life. Born in Phoenix in 1996, Dever moved to...
If you're looking to take a trip up to Sedona, we'd suggest waiting until February so you can attend the Sedona International Film Festival. The nine-day event features documentaries, animation, foreign films, and even some indie flicks with big-name actors. Although the full list of films and workshops for the...
How retrograde are many of the core tenets of the Disney princess? Consider this: My daughter owns a book called Snow White's Secret, in which Disney's royal archetype reveals her devilish hidden life: When the Dwarfs are working at the mine, she sneaks into their cottage and joyfully cleans the...
They were golden. They were globe-y. What can we say? Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted the 71st annual Golden Globes Sunday night, and it was a weird, hilarious, tipsy (for some), and beautiful mess. The co-hosts were on-point both dress-wise and joke-wise (that supermodel vagina joke was tops), Julia...
Director Stephen Wrentmore brings one of Oscar Wilde's most beloved comedic plays, The Importance of Being Earnest, to Phoenix's Herberger Theater Center starting Thursday, October 10, as the season's opener. Judging from Tucson audiences' reception, it's sure to be a hysterical show. Although the Arizona Theatre Company director is a...
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Some theater experiences leave you overwhelmed by somber themes and dense dialogue. However, Arizona Theatre Company's production of The Importance of Being Earnest can pretty much erase all that darkness in the course of two and a half hours with its extravagant costumes and sets, playful blend of modern and...
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Car Talk
I could write a Shakespearean sonnet about each film on my Top 10 of 2013, but we know we're all here for the agreements and arguments. (Plus, have you tried writing about Joe Swanberg in iambic pentameter?) Ladies and gentlemen, let's begin. The Act of Killing: The year's best film...
In the 20 years since Reality Bites, his directorial debut, Ben Stiller has metastasized from sketch comedy lunatic to Generation X darling to blockbuster king. Among the funny men, most of whom have calcified into cliques (yawn, Anchorman 2), he's the last of the triple-threat writer-director-stars, and the only one...