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Posted 10/09/2008
Just a few years ago, the movie marquee now overlooking busy Columbus Boulevard would have read like a prank, a mistake or science fiction: Right below "Free Popcorn Every Tuesday" at the United Artists Riverview Cinema, it says "Advance Tickets Now on Sale - Met Opera Series."
Posted 10/09/2008
The Express glorifies the life of football player Ernie Davis. Despite its title (Davis was known as the Elmira Express), the film is in fact a pokey local to Schmaltzville.
In Body of Lies, Ridley Scott's fascinating and flawed spy thriller about a soulless CIA technocrat (Russell Crowe) pulling the chains of field agents in the Middle East, Leonardo DiCaprio furnishes the soul.
'On the day the world ended, the future of mankind was carried in a small metal box . . ." So goes the voice-over (of Tim Robbins) at the start of City of Ember, a post-apocalyptic parable based on Jeanne Duprau's children's novel and brought to the screen with a nifty visual inventiveness by Monster House director Gil Kenan.
Now, I won't say categorically that Save Me is a film that both homosexuals and homophobes can embrace. But this earnest, well-acted melodrama has compassion for all of its characters, who include gay men and the Christians dedicated to healing them of their "brokenness."
Repertory Films Ambler Theater 108 E. Butler Ave., Ambler; 215-345-7855. www.amblertheater.com. The Animation Show 4 - Short animation from around the world. $8.50; $6.50 seniors, students & children. 10/16 7 pm.
You Don't Mess With the Zohan **1/2 (Sony Pictures,'08) $28.96. 117 mins. An Israeli counterterrorist agent fakes his death to live peacefully as a hairdresser in New York - his life's dream - until his Palestinian enemy arrives in the Big Apple. With Adam Sandler, Alex Luria, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Nick Swardson, Rob Schneider. PG-13 (crude and sexual content throughout, language, and nudity).
Today Lee Atwater, maverick Fasten your seat belts for the Lee Atwater story, a film explaining the rise of a man who went from musician to politician. Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story, directed by Stefan Forbes and produced by Noland Walker, makes refer
Jesse Malin A former glam-rocker who fronted D Generation, Jesse Malin has successfully transformed himself into an urban troubadour/rocker, the kind of performer who is not out of place duetting with Bruce Springsteen, a big fan of his work. After three
In Concert Appel Farm Arts & Music Center 457 Shirley Rd., Elmer; 609-358-2472. www.appelfarm.org. The Klezmatics. $27.50. 10/11 8 pm.
Singer-songwriter goes for a different vibe this time.
Ray LaMontagne's second album, 2006's Till the Sun Turns Black, burned softly and darkly, soberly and deeply. It was a "Serious Album," and it rightfully won the Maine singer-songwriter many accolades and fans.
Casinos Atlantic City Hilton Boston at the Boardwalk, Atlantic City; 609-347-7111. www.hiltonac.com. Frank Sinatra Jr. $50. 10/12 7 pm. Smokey Joe's Cafe. Closes 10/31. $30.
Rossini's Barber of Seville. Presented from Teatro la Fenice in Venice starring Francesco Meli, Bruno De Simone, and a mezzo-soprano frequently heard in Philadelphia, Rinat Shaham. Oct. 18 at the Ambler Theater, 108 E Butler Ave., Ambler.
Theater Professional/semi-professional Anna Bella Eema Mother & daughter struggling to get by embark on an adventure when the daughter brings a mud-girl to life. Closes 10/11. Adrienne Theatre, 2030 Sansom St.; 215-407-0556. www.gasandelectricarts.org. $20; $15 students.
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