http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/carrie_rickey RSS Feed for Inq Col Carrie Rickey en-us Thu, 11 Apr 2013 21:23:53 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/carrie_rickey/20130412__Trance__entrances__though_its_characters_do_not.html Trance, an art-heist movie from Danny Boyle, is a thriller cloaked in a film noir twisted into a Mobius strip and shoved into a cranny where movie amnesiacs hide repressed memories that audiences try to retrieve. http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/carrie_rickey/20121228_A_family-friendly_comedy_to_warm_up_the_holiday_season.html Parental Guidance is an engaging comedy that bridges multiple generation gaps, making it that rare movie that grandparents, their kids, and their kids can enjoy. Directed with more warmth than art by Andy Fickman, the film is just endearing enough to forgive it its contrivances. http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/carrie_rickey/20121225_Parental_Guidance______out_of_four_stars_.html Parental Guidance is an engaging comedy that bridges multiple generation gaps, making it that rare movie that grandparents, their kids, and their kids can enjoy. Directed with more warmth than art by Andy Fickman, the film is just endearing enough to forgive it its contrivances. http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/carrie_rickey/20121221_Breathtaking__and_death-defying_-_and_rudely_cut.html About 40 minutes into Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away, I swear I saw a Lycra-clad Ming the Merciless brandish a paella pan brimming with something red. I thought I was looking at Amfortas' wound in a Las Vegas production of Parsifal. I blinked several times. Both Ming and his paella pan were still there. Ordinarily, one needs the assistance of street drugs or a kaleidoscope to experience a sustained hallucination like this. Maybe it was the 3-D glasses? http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/carrie_rickey/20121214__Any_Day_Now___Love_stories_of_a_drag_queen__a_lawyer__a_Down_syndrome_teen.html Rudy Donatello (Alan Cumming), a self-styled drag queen from Queens, is impish and irrepressible. As he whips hair back and forth while lip-synching pop songs on the stage of a Hollywood gay bar, his sparkly flamboyance suggests that he might be the spawn of Diana Ross and My Little Pony. http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/carrie_rickey/20121123__Rise_of_the_Guardians___protecting_truth__justice_and_the_childhood_way.html Reprinted from Wednesday's editions. Santa, the Tooth Fairy, and the Easter Bunny don't merely know one another. According to Rise of the Guardians, Mr. North Pole, Ms. Molar, and the Rabbit are in league with Sandman and relative newcomer Jack Frost to protect and serve the imaginations of children everywhere. http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/carrie_rickey/20121123_The_boy_and_the_Bengal_cat_went_to_sea______.html Reprinted from Wednesday's editions. Talk about crouching tigers! Ang Lee, director of a certain martial-arts adventure, pounces on Life of Pi, the mystical tale based on Yann Martel's novel of a wiry Bengal tiger and a wary adolescent adrift in a lifeboat. http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/carrie_rickey/20121121__Rise_of_the_Guardians___protecting_truth__justice_and_the_childhood_way.html Santa, the Tooth Fairy, and the Easter Bunny don't merely know one another. According to Rise of the Guardians, Mr. North Pole, Ms. Molar, and the Rabbit are in league with Sandman and relative newcomer Jack Frost to protect and serve the imaginations of children everywhere. http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/carrie_rickey/20121121_Ang_Lee_tells_the_mystical_story_of_the_boy_and_the_tiger_in_a_lifeboat_full_of_faith_.html Talk about crouching tigers! Ang Lee, director of a certain martial-arts adventure, pounces on Life of Pi, the mystical tale based on Yann Martel's novel of a wiry Bengal tiger and a wary adolescent adrift in a lifeboat. http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/carrie_rickey/20121118_Honor_for_The_Voice.html NEW YORK - You hear James Earl Jones before you see him, as it should be. The oceanic rumble of his familiar bass announces his arrival at Gabriel's, the cozy brasserie near Lincoln Center.