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Director Ramin Bahrani ups the creative stakes with 'At Any Price'
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4/21/2013 3:19:18 PM
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Indie Focus: The filmmaker, known for smaller fare, takes a high-profile leap in his dramatic study of America's family farming industry starring Dennis Quaid and Zac Efron. Expand or die. This ominous motto of economic imperialism courses throughout the film "At Any Price," set against the imperiled world of modern-day family farming.
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Salman Rushdie Turns Screenwriter for Midnight’s Children
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4/22/2013 1:29:39 AM
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“One of the problems of things being long ago is that the heat goes out of them,” says Salman Rushdie, almost 25 years after Ayatollah Khomeini sentenced him to die, Rushdie is still probably the world’s most famous living writer. It’s the morning of the death of Margaret Thatcher—a political ... More »
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Things to do this weekend
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4/12/2013 7:25:56 PM
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Singer Aaron Carter performs Saturday night at Cargo. / Getty Images Hip Service: The band features four great singers, a screaming four piece horn section, and a rock solid rhythm section rooted in rhythm and blues, soul, Motown, classic rock, 70s Disco, and today’s funky grooves.
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Video Blog Reaction: 10 Minutes of Neill Blomkamp’s ‘Elysium’
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4/9/2013 1:11:58 AM
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Sony held an event today in four cities across the world to launch to buzz for District 9 director Neill Blomkamp‘s new film Elysium. Fans in the four cities were invited to the event through the film’s viral website. Blomkamp, producer Simon Kinberg and co-star Sharlto Copley were in attendance at the Arclight Cinemas in Hollywood [...]
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Bensalem woman's Holocaust narrative a labor of love
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4/8/2013 2:14:13 PM
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“94 Maidens” is Rhonda Fink-Whitman’s Holocaust narrative based largely on her own mother’s Holocaust history. It has been a labor of love — but a mighty labor, nonetheless, for the Bensalem woman.
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A labor of love
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4/8/2013 9:43:19 AM
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It’s hard to miss the extraordinary energy and soaring spirit of Bensalem’s Rhonda Fink-Whitman. It even leaps across phone lines and emails. The reason is one that cuts across time, history and count
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Catching up with Derek Lyn Plastic
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4/6/2013 1:12:20 PM
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Before taking the stage at the Star Bar tonight (Sat., April 6), playing his first show in six months (he thinks), Derek Lyn Plastic took a few minutes to talk about the band's new lineup, and what he has in store for the year to come. When and how did the band form? Derek Lyn Plastic formed in 2003.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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'Insane' crowds as customers flood Connecticut gun stores before vote
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4/3/2013 1:52:06 PM
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Gun stores all over Connecticut were packed Tuesday, one day before lawmakers voted on a sweeping package of laws that banned military-style assault weapons and magazines that hold more than 10 rounds. “They’re insane. I’ve never seen them so busy before,” …
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The Following's Annie Parisse: The FBI Is "Slowly But Surely" Catching Up to Joe Carroll
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4/2/2013 2:41:29 PM
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The Following's Annie Parisse: The FBI Is "Slowly But Surely" Catching Up to Joe Carroll Seattle Post-Intelligencer Copyright 2013 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 8:14 pm, Sunday, March 31, 2013 The stakes are raised to a new level for the FBI on Monday's episode of The Following, now that ...
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James Holmes Doesn't Want to Die
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3/27/2013 10:01:15 PM
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James Holmes desperately wants to stay alive, even if it means spending the rest of his life in jail with no chance of ever seeing the free world again. The Associated Press and Denver Post report Holmes's lawyers filed a motion in court Wednesday offering a guilty plea deal — acknowledging that the mass shooter is willing to spend life in prison without a chance for parole if it means avoiding ...
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Review: Chilling look inside a sex ring called 'Eden'
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3/28/2013 11:15:31 PM
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A sobering thriller that puts many human faces on an international crisis, Megan Griffiths' assuredly directed indie "Eden" tracks the experience of Korean American teenager Hyun Jae (Jamie Chung) after she's kidnapped by a sex slave ring. Labeled Eden by a shady federal marshal (Beau Bridges, chilling) in charge of the operation, she's transported from New Mexico to Nevada, held captive in a ...
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