Acclaimed actress Maggie Gyllenhaal makes a noteworthy transition behind the camera as producer, director, and screenwriter of The Lost Daughter, the well-mounted adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s best-selling novel, which is now streaming on Netflix.
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If The Gardener takes its “inspiration” from Die Hard (1988), director Alex Merkin’s Pups Alone takes its from yet another holiday perennial, Home Alone (1990). Indeed, given the title and basic storyline, one might get the impression it’s an “official” follow-up. Nothing could be further fr…
The Gardener, a one-note action melodrama edited, produced, and co-directed by Scott Jeffrey and Rebecca J. Matthews, is yet another entry in the Die Hard sweepstakes, detailing a home invasion in a remote manor located in the English countryside. It’s the yuletide season, and the family has…
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Throughout his career, filmmaker Sean Baker (Tangerine, The Florida Project) has evinced a fondness for characters who exist on the fringes of conventional society, and nowhere is that more evident than in his latest — and possibly best — film, Red Rocket.
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The immensely talented Kenneth Branagh has made his most personal film with Belfast, a fact-based chronicle of his youth set in the late 1960s, when he was just a lad. Appropriately enough, the principal character is Buddy, a bright-eyed boy played with delightful charm and gusto by newcomer…
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Local Artist Highlight | Yosimar Alvarez gives back to his Winston-Salem hometown neighborhood
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The bubbly holiday comedy Single All the Way is currently available on Netflix, and “OUT at the Movies” will be hosting a special Netflix Viewing Party on December 22 beginning at 7 p.m., followed by a Q&A with cast members Michael Urie and Philemon Chambers. It’s free for those with a N…
There comes a point during producer/director Ridley Scott’s fact-based drama House of Gucci in which one gets the unmistakable sense that the narrative is slowly but inexorably slipping away. All the elements for a juicy, flashy melodrama, set against the backdrop of high fashion are seeming…
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Analyzing the career of Joaquin Phoenix is as rewarding as it is fascinating. He was River Phoenix’s younger brother. Then he was one of our best young actors. And even before winning the Oscar for his mesmerizing turn in Joker (2019), he had matured into, simply, as one of our best actors, …
The events of writer/director Maya Sarfaty’s insightful, award-winning documentary feature Love It Was Not would seemingly be ripe for a juicy novel or a Hollywood potboiler, slathered in melodrama and sensationalism. Yet these events did take place, against one of the most horrific backdrop…
SOUTHERN DOCUMENTARY FUND AWARDS TEN PRODUCTION GRANTEES
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Stardom surged for Tom Cruise in 1983 when he was 19 and slid into the hallway in Risky Business. Now in his fourth decade as one of the world’s most successful and wealthy actors, Tom owns homes in Beverly Hills; Clearwater, Florida and a 320-acre ranch in Telluride, Colorado that he helped…
RIVERRUN TO PRESENT YOUTH V. GOV FREE IN VIRTUAL THEATER
Kristen Stewart’s overpowering performance aside, producer/director Pablo Larrain’s Spencer is rather a disappointment. Billed as “A Fable from a True Tragedy,” the film follows a similar blueprint as Larrain’s Jackie (2016), in that it dramatizes a specific, confined, but important period o…
RIVERRUN’S THIRD LINCOLN SMARTPHONE SHORT FILM CONTEST WINNERS
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Adapted with almost genteel care by producer and first-time screenwriter/director Rebecca Hall, Passing (now airing on Netflix) is based on Nella Larson’s 1929 novella, and marks a noteworthy bow for the actress-turned-filmmaker.
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The RiverRun International Film Festival’s virtual theater is currently presenting the award-winning documentary Theirs is the Kingdom, which will be available through Nov. 29th. Tickets are $12 and can be purchased online at https://riverrunfilm.com/.
In his feature debut, writer/producer/editor/director D.M. Cunningham takes a page — or two — from the COVID-19 pandemic to fashion a grisly, gory ecological shocker that’s timelier than most films of its ilk. The Spore is a modest but encouraging calling card, and that Cunningham dedicates …
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FRANK SINATRA’S “HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS” SHINES LIGHT ON AN EMOTIONAL JOURNEY IN TOUCHING ANIMATED STORY
The title Antlers isn’t misleading but is vague enough to possibly confuse horror fans, who might expect a film about a ravenous reindeer, rather than one about a diabolical Native American spirit. The spirit, which does sport antlers, is known as a “Wendigo,” but that title was previously u…
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RIVERRUN TO PRESENT THEIRS IS THE KINGDOM IN VIRTUAL THEATER
The "OUT at the Movies” LGBTQ screening series will present the award-winning documentary feature Invisible: Gay Women in Southern Music at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 13 at the ACE Theatre Complex, located on the main campus of the University North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA), 1533 S. …
Survive the Game, directed by James Cullen Bressack, is the worst kind of bad movie. It’s not bad enough to be unintentionally funny or bad enough to make one lament the waste of talent involved. It’s a lazy, inept movie that barely has a reason for existing. The filmmakers, including first-…
MONA LISA (The Criterion Collection): Bob Hoskins was a great actor, a latter-day Edward G. Robinson who played heroes and villains with equal force and nuance. Even better, his versatility knew few bounds. This exquisite 1986 crime drama, as emotionally layered as it is noir-ish, earned him…
No Time to Die is the 25th in the long-running, phenomenally popular Eon Productions screen franchise based on the immortal character created by Ian Fleming. It is the first to be distributed by Universal Pictures and, apparently, the last to star Daniel Craig in the leading role. And, despi…
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The UNC Greensboro School of Dance, in partnership with Sugarfoote Productions, will present the 7th Annual Greensboro Dance Film Festival October 29th-30th. The festival kicks off with a special screening of “Uprooted: The Journey of Jazz Dance” at the UNCG Auditorium.
With the RiverRun International Film Festival’s free family screening of Paddington 2 set for Oct. 23 at Marketplace Cinemas Drive-In, the tireless team at RiverRun has yet another free screening event this week: The critically acclaimed feature documentary Storm Lake, which will be shown Th…
The fact-based psychological drama No Man of God, which stars Luke Kirby as serial killer Ted Bundy and Elijah Wood as Bill Hagmaier, the FBI agent who interviewed him while he was on Death Row in Florida, initially seems very promising. What might conceivably be a real-life variation on The…
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RIVERRUN HOLDING THIRD LINCOLN SMARTPHONE SHORT FILM CONTEST
GREENSBORO, NC (October 14, 2021) – Creative Greensboro, the City’s office for arts and culture, has taken over management of the Van Dyke Performance Space, a 300-seat black box theater located in the Greensboro Cultural Center. Individuals, groups, and organizations may request rental of t…
Originally titled Den blomstertid nu kommer, The Unthinkable was completed in 2018. That it took three years to reach these shores in no way reflects the film’s quality — or lack thereof. But global circumstances brought an unexpected, even remarkable timeliness to the story, and it’s no sur…
RiverRun to Present Storm Lake outdoors at Kilpatrick Townsend
Upcoming Events at ARTC Theatre - 110 W 7th Street in the Downtown Arts District
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HPU Invites the Community to the Filming of ABC’s National Christmas Eve Worship Service
Back in Gate City Again," off Colin Cutler's latest release, Hot Pepper Jam, is a steel-driven waltz about his return to Greensboro after several years away.
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