Alice In Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland is Tim Burton’s latest gloriously gorgeous but dreary film. Why a guy with such an incredible sense of the macabre has…
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Green Zone
Our country is so polarized, that a superb military action thriller–one that creates a powerful tribute to our men and women in uniform, and…
Read MoreShutter Island
If Edgar Allan Poe were alive, he’d be an executive producer of Shutter Island. Director Martin Scorsese (The Departed), himself a certified master of…
Read MoreThe White Ribbon
The white ribbons of this movie’s title refer to arm bands and hair ribbons a punitive Lutheran pastor (Burkhart Klaubner) forces his two adolescent…
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The Carl Sandburg Home Welcomes an Award-Winning Poet this Month
It’s only fitting that Christina Lovin would be the first Writer-in-Residence at the Carl Sandburg National Historic Site in Flat Rock. First of all,…
Read MoreFestival of Lights, Camera, Action
Yoo Hoo Mrs. Goldberg, a film about a woman who paved the way for women in the entertainment industry, will kick off The Second…
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History in the Making
The cosmopolitan author William Henry Porter, famously known as O. Henry, who often visited Western North Carolina with his Asheville-born wife, complained “I could…
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Sea Change
Singer/songwriters and designer/builders: the mountains are full of multi-talented creative types who fell in love with the region and now call it home. But…
Read MoreThe Wolfman
The moors in the north of England in the winter of 1891 are tableaux of dreary monochrome.The ground is dark with dirtied snow, the…
Read MoreCrazy Heart
Like legendary film critic Pauline Kael, I also think Jeff Bridges is one of the country’s finest actors. No other film actor projects the…
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