(8.30) A back-to-school special of sorts. This week’s installment of Movies on the Block features the 2003 Will Farrell vehicle “Old School.” Elvis Mitchell had this to say in the New York Times, This sloppy, dumb, though occasionally funny comedy is so derivative of ”Animal House” (and, more specifically, its children) that it’s like one […]
Meet David Siegel and his wife Jackie, the subjects of “The Queen of Versailles.” In this new character-driven documentary by Lauren Greenfield we step into the lives of a billionaire family and their financial challenges in the wake of the 2008 economic crisis. The film follows two unique characters, whose rags-to-riches success stories reveal the
One of the best from this much beloved comedy gang — even if the actual Westminster Dog show is pretty much satire-proof. “Best in Show” was directed by Christopher Guest who, with Eugene Levy, also wrote the script. Roger Ebert liked it a lot. Dogs were not put on earth to pose, prance, sit, point
(8.3) Another music documentary on tap at the Cable Car; this time it’s Neil Young Journeys directed by Jonathan Demme. In May of 2011, Neil Young drove a 1956 Crown Victoria from his idyllic hometown of Omemee, Ontario to downtown Toronto’s iconic Massey Hall where he performed the last two nights of his solo world
(7.26) This week’s installment of Movies on the Block is the 1993 Spielberg action adventure movie “Jurassic Park.” The New York Times noted, Anybody can stage a fight, but it takes Mr. Spielberg to show just how the pots and pans might go flying at the stroke of a velociraptor’s tail, or how the children
(7.5) Aah, this is the life. The salt wind in your hair, a cold can of Narragansett beer . . . what could possibly go wrong? Find out this Thursday in the next installment of Movies on the Block. New York Times movie critic Vincent Canby gave “Jaws” a fairly short review. It’s a noisy,
Pretty much the opposite of the summer blockbuster, “Your Sister’s Sister” received a mostly favorable review from A. O. Scott in The New York Times. The three main characters in “Your Sister’s Sister,” Lynn Shelton’s new comedy of romantic confusion, are remarkably charming and pleasant company. Not always for one another, of course — hence
(2.15) Two things from the Brown University Literary Arts Program, both free and open to the public, Wednesday, February 15th. 3pm — Filmmaker and writer Neil LaBute will be reading from his fiction at the McCormack Family Theater, 70 Brown Street. 7pm — A screening of the 1998 film “Your Friends and Neighbors” in the
Another gem from the vaults. This invitation comes from Dave Dvorchak over at the Providence Community Library. Yes, we’ve all seen it. Numerous times! Remember when “It’s A Wonderful Life” ran incessantly on TV as Christmas approached? Well, ever since the film left the public domain in 1993, it’s airings have become quite infrequent, NBC
If you can stand to even think about these guys and what they’ve done to the world “Margin Call”, written and directed by J.C. Chandor, is supposed to be a pretty great movie. A.O. Scott describes it in the New York Times as, . . . an extraordinary feat of filmmaking. It is hard to
(11.16) The Magic Lantern Cinema series has been going on for a few years now; tonight’s show — The Artificial Nature Show: Artificial Depictions of Nature in the Moving Pictures — has been curated by the good people at Acme Video. Does a squirrel know what a movie is? We at Acme Video wish they
(11.17) Cue the zither. Providence Community Library will be offering a screening of The Third Man, the 1949 British film noir based on the novella by Graham Greene. Starring Orson Welles as Harry Lime, this is one of Roger Ebert’s ‘Great Movies’. “The Third Man” (1949) was made by men who knew the devastation of
What’s not to like. Kiefer Sutherland, the Coreys (Haim and Feldman). Tonight’s MotB (Providence’s only outdoor movie theater) is the 1987 horror-comedy The Lost Boys. According to the New York Times, In ”The Lost Boys,” Joel Schumacher’s hip, comic twist on classic vampire stories, practical reactions to the unnatural seem normal. These lost boys are
Tonight’s installment of Movies on the Block is Mad Max, the first in the Australian dystopian-revenge franchise that kickstarted the film career of narcissistic, god botherer Mel Gibson. Filmed in 1979, the action of the film takes place “a few years from now.” At the time the film was not favorably received by the pointy-headed
The New York Times had to call in a ringer to review this movie — Michael Kinsley, a senior editorial adviser at Bloomberg News. Kinsley isn’t that crazy about the film which “flits from topic to topic, character to character, explaining almost nothing.” Even worse, The unlikely hero of “Page One” is a media columnist
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And the weather is perfect for this week’s installment of Movies on the Block. For Vincent Canby of the New York Times, it’s the casting that makes this movie about a bounty hunter (Robert De Niro) trying to return a mild-mannered, and incredibly irritating, certified public accountant (Charles Grodin) back to Los Angeles. Their journey