Unknown Lineage and Other Happy Endings
The fourth annual Tryon International Film Festival, held in Western North Carolina’s famous equestrian town, bursts onscreen with a rambunctious “woof” instead of a…
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Playing With Time
The best movies are like dear friends. You visit often and ask different questions each time. Most follow the classic, linear, three-act structure taken…
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Be It Now
For no other reason than to have a goofy good time in a town that’s usually pretty well behaved, the Artisan of Flat…
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Film Imitates Art Imitating Life
Tryon film fans and art lovers are marking a red-letter day at the end of July. The historic Tryon Theatre, closed for months for…
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Kicking the Habit
Sometimes the more spiritual someone tries to be, the more human nature tests them. As if the higher the goal, the baser the temptation….
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A Look Behind the Holiness
Even if you haven’t read his six books, or don’t remember that he won the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize, most Americans have some idea…
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Ablaze with Contradictions
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri was nominated this year for seven Academy Awards, and won two, for Best Actress Frances McDormand and Best Supporting…
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Waiting for the Kiss
Writer/historian James Fenimore Cooper was hiking with English friends in the Adirondack Mountains in northeastern New York, marveling at the magical, romantic caves beneath…
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Gary Oldman turns the tide in a thunderous Churchill biopic
Though only a mediocre student, the dreamy young freckle-faced lord discovered he loved literature. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill taught himself to think like Cicero…
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A Monstrously Good Buddy Movie
Thor: Ragnarok, the third outing of Marvel Comics’ God of Thunder, is the best in the series and perhaps the silliest, most preposterous, most…
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