Attending screenings at the annual Virginia Film Festival is like drinking a glass of red wine and then having a conversation with the vintner.
While Will Forte is best known for his spot on “Saturday Night Live” and his goofy spin-off movie “MacGruber,” he shows off genuine acting chops in “Nebraska,” a poignant story about a father-son relationship.
This year the Virginia Film Festival brought Charlottesville a true wonder with the 2012 Dutch film, “The Zigzag Kid.” Through its partnership with Congregation Beth Israel, the film was featured as one of the three made from a Jewish perspective. The movie, however, has a message relevant to all audience members, encouraging them to embrace their individuality.
The performance that Richmond-based Carbon Leaf put on at the Jefferson Theater last Friday night was by no means typical of a band consisting of guys in their mid-40s who have been playing together for over 20 years.
Returning from a surprise two-year absence from the music scene, Tucson-based duo Ryanhood released its new album “Start Somewhere” on Nov.
Around Grounds, students are packing away their costumes, snacking on leftover candy and catching up on neglected homework.
Very few comedians, let alone people, are as successful as Aziz Ansari – especially at such a young age.
People everywhere have dissected and discussed every minute detail of the day that Lee Harvey Oswald shot President Kennedy in the head in a sea of media, spanning from books, to movies, to television, to obscure conspiracy theory sites around the web.
Arcade Fire’s follow up to the Grammy Award winning 2010 album “The Suburbs” turned out very different than expected – at least for me.
Since the release of their debut studio album “Eyelid Movies” in 2009, Phantogram has built a noticeable grassroots following through extensive touring campaigns, playing with the likes of The Antlers, The xx, Beach House, and Ra Ra Riot.
My experience Sunday night at the Paramount Theater was less of a concert than it was an exercise of spiritual arousal.
When the credits rolled at the close of Paul Greengrass’s thrilling Captain Phillips, based on the 2009 pirate hijacking of the Maersk Alabama, the audience breathed a collective sigh of relief.
The film industry has grown increasingly unoriginal lately. Most popular movies tend to fall into one of four categories: sequels, remakes, novel adaptations and works inspired by a true story.
Smart romantic comedies are surprisingly not easy to come by these days, making Nicole Holofcener’s “Enough Said” particularly so refreshing.
This past week, I had the pleasure of viewing a prescreening of “About Time.” Written and directed by Richard Curtis, who has also brought us “Notting Hill” and “Love Actually,” the movie tugs at our heartstrings once again.
Music can tell just as good a story as any Walter White, a fact I was reminded of last Tuesday at the Tuesday Evening Concert Series in Old Cabell Hall featuring the Les Violons du Roy chamber orchestra accompanied by mezzo-soprano opera singer Stephanie Blythe. I walked into this spectacle somewhat underdressed and underprepared, but thankfully the musicians did not. The Les Violons du Roy opened with “Orchestral Suite No.
The separation of a book lover from his books is a sorry sight. Unfortunately, college students often feel too busy for any reading beyond their course syllabi.
Patrick Dougherty would have no problem saying his work is “for the birds.” Currently on display at the Fralin Museum of Art, Dougherty’s “Stickwork” consists of thousands of wood saplings twisted and twined together into a “Stickwork” sculpture.
Imagine mountains so distinct, caverns so resonant, deserts so desolate that they seem separated from Rugby Road only by a thin windowpane.
The success of Orlando-based quartet Trivium has long seemed causally linked to an arithmetic pattern.
