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Besides doing fun relationship stuff like arguing about how to discipline our dog, New Times blogger Tyler Hughes and his girlfriend, Jackie Cronin, go to the movies. Tyler: So, how many times did you wash your hands after seeing Contagion?Jackie: Twice -- before leaving the theater. I've never been so...
Directed by Danish filmmaker Lone Scherfig from a screenplay by David Nicholls, based on his novel, One Day stars Anne Hathaway as Emma, a too-serious would-be writer in coke-bottle glasses and combat boots. She's nursing a crush on Dexter (Jim Sturgess), her too-good-looking rich boy college classmate. She's earnest, tenacious...
If you want to turn a pleasant quest through the sunny hills of Azeroth into an all-out, Night-Elf-on-Dwarf rumble, mention prequels. In American popular culture, the prequel is still most strongly associated with the Star Wars prequel trilogy - those films we waited decades for while technology caught up to George...
More than just the Hollywood It Girl of the moment, Emma Stone is a real actress, and in The Help, she gets an ostentatious, Oscar-baiting Big Scene in which to prove it. Stone is, to borrow a phrase from Bret Easton Ellis' Twitter account, thoroughly post-empire — she doesn't need...
As stripped down and propulsive as its robotic title, Drive is the most "American" movie yet by Danish genre director Nicolas Winding Refn. The film, for which Refn was named best director last May in Cannes, is a sleek, tense piece of work that, as a vehicle for Ryan Gosling,...
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SAD SONGS Music does give comfort: Your story "Facing the Music" was truly inspiring. I wept as I read it (Kholood Eid, September 15). If you've ever had a relative lingering on his or her deathbed, you know how deeply depressed everybody is. Sometimes, the family is even more depressed...
At one point in Higher Ground, Vera Farmiga's decade-spanning directorial debut, the actress, playing Corinne, a woman still soaked with lake water after her baptism into an evangelical sect, resembles no less a touchstone than Ronee Blakley in Robert Altman's Nashville: slightly high hair; starchy, sexless, long tunic dress; swaying...
Victoria Jackson hurtles through intersections and down side streets while using her left hand to hold a Flip cam to her face. The inside of her car — a weathered Honda Civic with "Nobama," Marco Rubio, and Tea Party bumper stickers — smells like it's been fumigated with sweet incense...
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Urban Stargazing
Jose Benavides’ vision of the Madonna appeared at Mesa Arts Center last fall. For many people visiting MAC for the “Guitars & Handlebars” season opening exhibit, she was a revelation: a 17-foot-long motorized sculpture on wheels, draped in a shroud of 500 license plates from 50 U.S. states (plus Mexico...
The NFL regular season starts tomorrow night and football fans can barely contain their glee. They've waited out a long, hot summer fraught with player trades, contract negotiations, and the possibility of an owners lockout. They're more ready than ever to cheer on their favorite teams over the next few months.When...
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Requiem for a Super Middleweight
Besides doing fun relationship stuff like arguing about how to discipline our dog, New Times blogger Tyler Hughes and his girlfriend, Jackie Cronin, go to the movies. Tyler: So, if I remember correctly you haven't seen any of the original Planet of the Apes movies, including that awful Mark Wahlberg...
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Six Best Bums in Entertainment
When Albert Brooks greets me in the reception area of his Beverly Hills office, I immediately recognize his shirt. The baggy, faded, red short-sleeve button-down imprinted with dull green palm trees belongs to the inimitably tacky wardrobe of Bernie Rose, the mobster and sometime B-movie producer Brooks plays in Nicolas...
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella has an interesting pedigree. Originally seen as a live television broadcast in 1957, this three-act musical was viewed by the largest audience in history at the time of its première. More than half of America — some 107 million people — tuned in to hear Julie...
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The US Airways Center has played host to some of the Valley's biggest event, but this Friday, the downtown arena welcomes its biggest guest, Jesus. No, we're not talking about the skinny, bearded messiah from Bethlehem. We're talking about 26-year old Phoenician boxer Jesus "El Martillo" Gonzalez, a hard-hitting southpaw...
The intelligence (sometimes coupled with a cheerful sadism) of certain playwrights produces work that's a genuine challenge to pull off. Alan Ayckbourn can do the trick for a community theater; for professionals the likes of those with Southwest Shakespeare Company, it apparently takes Oscar Wilde to (metaphorically) slice their tendons...
Say the immigrant makes a few bucks and goes back to his/her hometown. Think they'll put up with the shit that prompted them to move in the first place? (How ya gonna keep them down on the farm . . . ?) Putting the Red into Redneck Absolutely not. I...
Not every homo sapiens who sees Project Nim will be moved to pledge membership in PETA. Still, this documentary biopic of the '70s chimp picked to endure an "experiment" in simian sign language and general neglect pulls human heartstrings as wrenchingly as any creature feature in the 45 years since...