El director Michael Mann daña pero no totaliza su “Ferrari”. Carolina del Norte tiene muchas ventajas: Cheerwine, Krispy Kreme, baloncesto de la UNC, la belleza de las montañas y la costa. Pero, para mí, ninguno de ellos se compara con presenciar a adictos a la adrenalina compitiendo con chasis personalizados en los asfaltos peraltados de...
Director Michael Mann damages but does not total his “Ferrari.” North Carolina has many perks: Cheerwine, Krispy Kreme, UNC basketball, the beauty of the mountains and the coast. But, for me, none of those hold a candle to witnessing adrenaline junkies racing customized chassis on the banked asphalts of Charlotte, North Wilkesboro, and Bowman Gray....
Una escena de la última película del director Alexander Payne, “The Holdovers”, resume toda la película. En la mañana de Navidad, Paul Hunham (Paul Giamatti), el habitualmente cascarrabias profesor de música clásica en un internado de Nueva Inglaterra a principios de los años 1970, convoca al estudiante rebelde Angus Tully (Dominic Sessa) y a la...
One scene in director Alexander Payne’s latest movie, “The Holdovers,” epitomizes the entire film. On Christmas morning, Paul Hunham (Paul Giamatti), the usually cantankerous classics teacher at a New England boarding school in the early 1970s, summons rebellious student Angus Tully (Dominic Sessa) and grieving cafeteria lady Mary Lamb (Da’Vine Joy Randolph) to the mess...
I was not alive in the 1990s. Naturally, there are plenty of cultural artifacts from that period outside of my understanding. Beanie Babies. The Macarena. Tamagotchis. Ross Perot. Whatever “nu metal” is. Saturday Night Live spin-off films certainly earn a spot on that list. I have been told by those older and wiser than myself...
In the Pines, a John Locke Foundation-produced short film based on the 1898 insurrection that toppled Wilmington’s elected local government, recently won Best Film and two other awards at the Golden Hour Film Festival in Morganton. In addition to Best Film, Pandora Broadwater won Best Actress for her role as an older version of protagonist...
As North Carolina is America’s ninth most populous state, film and television producers are working with the Tarheel State in mind. For television, numerous shows have been made featuring N.C. settings, many becoming integral parts of American culture. Have you ever wondered which one of these shows is the “best?” One N.C. website believes they...
At August’s Council of State meeting, North Carolina Secretary of State Elaine Marshall said her department faced “a crisis” over inadequate funding for agency staff. Addressing elected members of N.C.’s Executive Branch, Marshall, a Democrat who has served since 1997, said her department’s 185 employees have been required “to do more and more and more...
Oppenheimer was good — actually, it was terrific. Christopher Nolan, an undeniable master filmmaker whose work should be discussed until the end of time, tells the epic tale of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the man who invented the atomic bomb — or at least led the Manhattan Project that created it. I went into Oppenheimer the...
A new set of laws are set to take effect Tuesday, August 1, in North Carolina. Among them is S.B. 626, Modify Human Trafficking and Rioting Laws, which includes a provision that allows more human trafficking victims to collect compensation under the Crime Victims Compensation Act.
Movies are back! While they haven’t technically gone anywhere, as studios have continuously forced them onto the unsuspecting public (even during the past few years of the COVID-stricken world), the movies have finally returned to their intended form! For decades, the standard modus operandi of the average American moviegoer was to pile up all the...
Last week, a 25-year-old detransitioned North Carolina woman filed a lawsuit against those she claims were responsible for convincing her to undergo gender-reassignment medical procedures when she was a minor. Filed as a civil case in Gaston County Superior Court, Prisha Mosley alleges a team of doctors and counselors regularly “lied” to her by stating...