Midnight in Paris
At last! A new movie for adults that’s charming, romantic, laugh out-loud funny—and even wise. In Midnight in Paris director/writer Woody Allen delivers a…
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Drawing Nothing
As an artist, Lori Raines has a peculiar wish. “I would like to draw nothing at all,” Lori says. But to draw nothing, to…
Read MorePirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
About 260 years ago, Catholic Spain and Protestant England fought one another for domination of the world, sending their immense ships back and forth…
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Dressed to Kill
“I have always loved vampires,” says Heather Maloy. Tales about vampires in love may be all the rage due to the recent popularity of…
Read MoreThor
Everything about Thor is fun. The sets and costumes in the mythological realms are totally awesome–glittering with gold and jewels and futuristic gears and…
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Beyond December
“Someone once said my paintings look like a Milton Bradley game on acid,” says Hendersonville artist Susan Webb Tregay. A quick look around her…
Read MoreWater for Elephants
It gives me no pleasure to say that the film based on Sarah Gruen’s phenomenal bestseller about a traveling circus is pretty to look…
Read MoreJane Eyre
For the record, I can’t stand Gothic Cinderella tales like Jane Eyre. But I loved this latest movie version of Charlotte Bronte’s 1847 novel….
Read MoreThe Conspirator
It is Good Friday, April 14, 1865 in Washington D.C. Five days ago, at Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia, Robert E. Lee had surrendered to…
Read MoreOf God and Men
Of Gods and Men is the best film I’ve seen this year–and already is included in my all-time favorites. It’s not a film for…
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