February 2010
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February 28, 2010
Zack Smith · 25 Feb 2010, 2:48 PM · Comment
THE WINTER’S TALE
Peace College
The Winter’s Tale is one of William Shakespeare’s last and less-performed plays, and it’s easy to see why. It’s literally half tragedy and half comedy, with a dark, vengeance-filled first opening act that gives way to a second act filled with songs and romantic misunderstandings; the meaning of the title comes courtesy of a charming child who will soon die: “A sad tale’s best for winter: I have one/ of sprites and goblins.”
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February 28, 2010
Catching up — did an interview with the contoversial publisher (and Woody Harrelson film subject) Larry Flynt when he recently appeared at a local university. You can read the interview by clicking the above picture.
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February 17, 2010
The Late Show‘s Eddie Brill brings his act—and his knowledge—to N.C. Comedy Arts Festival
The scout of comedy
15 FEB 2010 • by Zack Smith
| An interview with the longtime LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN talent coordinator on his recent visit to a comedy festival in NC.
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February 17, 2010
Nevermore curates the latest in cinematic horror, along with a few classics
Nights of gore
17 FEB 2010 • by Zack Smith
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“Bonnie & Clyde vs. Dracula” plays Saturday and Sunday afternoons
Image courtesy of Nevermore Film Festival |
Nevermore Film Festival
Carolina Theatre
Feb. 19-21
If you’re sick of Saw sequels and are wondering if there are even any horror films left to be remade, take refuge this weekend at the Carolina Theatre’s Nevermore Film Festival.
With its combination of all-new features, shorts and classic horror films, it’s a reminder of what the genre can do. Here is a tip sheet on some of the 23 films at this year’s festival, which offer laughs, scares and even a Cusack.
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February 17, 2010
Theatre in the Park’s Don’t Cry for Me, Margaret Mitchell
17 FEB 2010 • by Zack Smith
Don’t Cry for Me, Margaret Mitchell
Theatre in the Park
Through Feb. 21
After seven decades, the 1939 film of Gone With the Wind remains the highest-grossing film of all time after adjusting for inflation (yes, even bigger than Avatar). The adaptation of this sprawling work from page to film is a monumental story in itself, from casting to filming to writing the screenplay. This last tale forms the basis of Theatre in the Park’s Don’t Cry for Me, Margaret Mitchell, a broad comedy that never quite jells.
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February 17, 2010
Raleigh Little Theatre’s Veronica’s Room
17 FEB 2010 • by Zack Smith
Veronica’s Room
Raleigh Little Theatre
Through Feb. 28
The biggest mistake made in Raleigh Little Theatre’s production of Ira Levin’s Veronica’s Room is the intermission. The good stuff’s all in the second act and starts almost immediately after the curtain goes up, but the first act is mostly lighthearted exposition. Levin himself wrote that the play could be performed without an intermission, and in this production everything grinds to a halt right before it gets interesting.
How it gets interesting is something that’s difficult to relate without giving away the many twists and turns. Suffice to say, there’s a reason Levin is best known for writing Rosemary’s Baby and Deathtrap, which RLT performed last season. This is the sort of story where no one’s quite who they seem, three or four times over.
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February 17, 2010
Aaron & Kubert Ready to ASTONISH With SPIDER-MAN & WOLVERINE
By Zack Smith
As announced yesterday, Marvel will relaunch Astonishing X-Men as part of a new “Astonishing” line designed to bring in new readers. Their first new addition to the line? A six-issue Astonishing Spider-Man and Wolverine miniseries. What’s so astonishing about it? Well, the superstar creative team of Jason Aaron (Scalped, Punishermax, Wolverine: Weapon X) and Adam Kubert (Amazing Spider-Man, Wolverine, Ultimate X-Men, approximately 500 other Marvel and DC characters) is a good start. Also, it apparently contains something called “Doom: the Living Planet.” Let that sink in.
We dared these two creators to astonish us with their new book. Did they? Read on!
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February 17, 2010
Kaare Andrews Draws a New ASTONISHING X-MEN
Marvel’s Astonishing line relaunches and expands in May, 2010 with a new take on Astonishing X-Men with the superstar team of writer Warren Ellis and artist Kaare Andrews. Andrews, whose dynamic, animation-inspired style has mostly been used in film and TV projects the last few years, took some time out to talk to Newsarama about his new X-book, what keeps him in comics, and his exciting new film projects, including his first feature film, Altitude.
Read the full interview here!
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February 12, 2010
Mobsters, Aliens & Vampires Occupy the Same TURF in April
By Zack Smith
Jonathan Ross is one of the UK’s top media personalities – and one of its top comic book fans. Tommy Lee Edwards is a fan-favorite U.S. comic artist who’s become an increasingly in-demand presence behind the scenes of major motion pictures. So when these two get together to do a comic book, it’s no surprise that it has gangsters, vampires and aliens.
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February 12, 2010
Jim Rugg discusses Afrodisiac
Soul comics
“By day he cleans up your office, at night he cleans up your streets”: A cover of a past number of “Afrodisiac”
Photo courtesy of Jim Rugg |
The ’70s are back: Those who missed the blaxploitation pastiche Black Dynamite have a second shot at some quality retro action when writer-artist Jim Rugg visits Chapel Hill Comics this week to promote his new graphic novel Afrodisiac.
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