Sublime cadavers
Two metro events follow the arbitrary and marvelous trail of the surrealist Exquisite Corpse….
Life in the Fezhouse
Dearborn quartet links rock ‘n’ roll to the future through the ghosts of musics past.
Armando’s
Armando’s modest but cheerful and very affordable cantina with tile-topped tables offers enchiladas, tacos and burritos, plus a few Cuban touches typified by gumbo made with pork, okra and sweet plantains, and fish stew.
Talking to God
The Apostle, written and directed by Robert Duvall, unfolds with the elegant simplicity of a folk tale. At first, Euliss “Sonny” Dewey (Duvall), a Texas Pentecostal preacher, seems to have everything he values: family, a career fueled by a strong sense of purpose. But Sonny’s hardly a saint. His wife Jessie (Farrah Fawcett) has grown…
Bandwagon
If only pop culture was smart enough to have its own disallowance rules &emdash; a fail-safe system, if you will, to prevent the spread to the eyes and ears of hokey, “authentic” cultural productions. Such a device might save consumers from the surplus of run-off stories like that of the struggling rock ‘n’ roll band…
Great Expectations
Great Expectations – the bitterly ironic title of Charles Dickens’ 1860 novel about the evil adults do when they impose grown-up desires on unsuspecting children. Dickens knew by hard experience that a heart once broken is never mended; a past betrayed can never be redeemed. At the height of Victorian “greatness,” those are the discomfiting…
Hamsun
Director Jan Troell’s Hamsun tells the story of the Norwegian Nobel Prize-winning author Knut Hamsun, focusing on his declining years when he became an avid supporter of the Nazi regime. Hamsun was already in his early 70s when Hitler seized power in Germany in 1933 and he continued to support the dictator throughout the war,…
Deceiver
Seemingly under the impression that being enigmatic is the hallmark of cool, the writing and directing team of brothers Josh and Jonas Pate have made sure that nothing in their second film, Deceiver, is as it appears to be. Not the stolid police detectives, Braxton (Chris Penn) and Kennesaw (Michael Rooker), who are administering a…
