Entertainment
It has a wealthy dowager in it
A few weeks ago, our government gave us yet another compelling reason not to trust it when its purchasing arm, the General Services Administration (GSA), was found to have been lavishly spending taxpayer money with less care than Ozzie Guillen has for public opinion...
It is what it is
Shifting gears” is one of those colloquialisms that, once hatched as an automotive term, has slithered its way into the irretrievably tainted waters of...
reel to reel | Week of July 19, 2012
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN Peter Parker gets a new look (and an origin story) in this Marvel remake of everyone’s favorite web slinger. Unlike Toby Maguire’s emo-esque rendition of the wall-crawler, actor Andrew Garfield’s portayal hopes to bring Spidey back to his ...
Define ‘run’
At this point, there is just one Liam Neeson movie: Taken a Non-Stop Run All Night to Walk Among the Tombstones 3. Neeson isn’t in the midst of some Nicolas Cage supernova, in which an actor’s need to perpetually work and “get dat paper” creates an acting black hole ...
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Paramount aims for franchises with ‘Jack Reacher,’ Jack Ryan
The CEO of Viacom, parent company of Paramount film company, says its strategy will begin shifting by the end of this year toward strengthening franchises and developing its brand. The strategy will start, Philippe Dauman says, with its upcoming Tom Cruise action-...
Just a kid with a nylon string guitar
Since 2004, Session Americana has been a rotating collective of some of the best, albeit least well known, players in American folk. The Boston-based...
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 says this is World War...
The drama surrounding Modern Warfare development studio Infinity...
The kids are all right
Reinvention is as American as Edison appropriating Tesla’s work or Donald Trump cloaking himself in the mantle of legitimate presidential candidacy. Hollywood’s current remake/reboot craze illustrates the pivotal place reinvention occupies in the arts, and theatre is...
Feel the feeling
The term “emo” has lived many lives since its origins in the evolving D.C. hardcore scene of the late 1980s. Three decades later, the...
Writing the unwritten
All of us are haunted — by vestiges of the past, and, as Hannah Nordhaus poignantly observes in American Ghost, by the ghosts of who we thought we were or thought we would become. Her story is a different kind of personal haunting, though, as she writes of the ghost ...
