Behind the seemingly innocuous title, The Favourite (three and a half stars out of four) lurks a wicked, wily historical satire that ranks as one of the season’s distinct pleasures. This dramatization of the machinations and manipulations of ...
MARK BURGER’S VIDEO VAULT PICK OF THE WEEK LONG STRANGE TRIP: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE GRATEFUL DEAD (Amazon Prime): Director Amir Bar-Lev’s ...
The contingent of independent filmmakers in North Carolina doesn’t exactly have it easy. With the loss of tax incentives, a lack of investors, and an understandable exodus of some filmmakers to other states with more opportunities, those who choose ...
MARK BURGER’S VIDEO VAULT PICK OF THE WEEK HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS!: THE ULTIMATE EDITION (Warner Bros. ...
For the next installment in its ongoing screening series, Winston-Salem’s International LGBT Film Festival OUT at the Movies will present an encore screening of the award-winning drama Evening Shadows, at A/perture Cinemas on Dec. 11. The film, ...
MARK BURGER’S VIDEO VAULT PICK OF THE WEEK THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL (Kino Lorber Studio Classics): After seven nominations, Geraldine Page finally won ...
Four decades ago, the world was dazzled by Richard Donner ’s big-budget 1978 version of Superman, which catapulted Christopher Reeve to stardom and was, for a time, the highest-grossing film in the history of Warner Bros. Now, Fathom Events ...
The RiverRun International Film Festival has joined forces with RED Cinemas in Greensboro to present “RiverRun UNCSA Shorts,” a 62-minute program of short films made by students in the University of North Carolina School of the Arts School of ...
MARK BURGER’S VIDEO VAULT PICK OF THE WEEK “THE BEST OF THE THREE STOOGES” (Time Life): The title tells all in this 13-DVD collection ($99.95 retail) that pays homage to the silly, slap-happy, and – yes, classic – hi-jinks ...
THE PHILOSOPHY OF WAR FILMS. Edited by David LaRocca. Published by University Press of Kentucky. 538 pages. $30 retail. Aside from a few scattered references to All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), World War I ...
