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Your summer movie queue: The place to be this summer will be cineplexes
Film Comments Updated: May 08, 2013 5:44pmThe IcemanMichael Shannon knows how to play crazy. Whether as a psychotic Prohibition agent on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire or as a paranoid family man in 2011’s Take Shelter, he creates characters whose...
What summer movies our writers are looking forward to
Film Comments May 01, 2013 8:26pmCOLIN BOYD ON MAN OF STEELDo we need Superman anymore? Do we even want him? Since Tim Burton’s Batman, we don’t like our movie comic book heroes “super” so much as “tortured.” And Superman is,...
Trash Fiction Corner: David Baldaaci’s ‘The Hit’
Books Comments May 01, 2013 8:07pmBOOK: The Hit, by David Baldacci, Grand Central Publishing, 400 pagesBEST-SELLER STATUS: Too early to tell; it was published April 23, and the latest sales figures reflected by the New York Times...
First Friday listings, 5.2.13
Art Comments May 01, 2013 8:04pmThe Arts FactoryThe Arts Factory 107 E. Charleston Blvd., 383-3133, www.theartsfactory.com.303 North Studio #115.8 Martinis Gallery 366-9077. www.8martinis.com.A. Stein Arts #215, www.asteinarts.com...
First Friday roundup, 5.2.13
Art Comments May 01, 2013 7:58pmGary HirschRobot ArmyThe domino robots of Gary Hirsch can assist with all manner of needs, including love, joy and bravery. Last Tuesday, 50 bots were hidden around Las Vegas, from uptown to The...
A novelist’s memoir of his split life could use a little more life
Books Comments May 01, 2013 7:46pmAleksandar Hemon might have titled his new essay collection Life Before and After Wartime, but he settled for The Book of My Lives.The plural speaks to his having grown up in Bosnia and matured in...
My summer of so-so movies
Film Comments May 01, 2013 7:30pmSure, I’ll see Star Trek Into Darkness and World War Z and, if a Saturday in July is otherwise drained of options, Man of Steel. And I’ll read reviews of The Great Gatsby, The Hangover III and the...
CineList, 5.2.13
Film Comments May 01, 2013 7:16pmNEW RELEASESPICK - Iron Man 3 (PG-13, 130 mins) See review, this issue.NOW PLAYING42 (PG-13, 128 mins) Jackie Robinson (Chadwick Boseman) ignores white folk shenanigans to kick ass in baseball. This...
Trusty sidekick: Robert Downey Jr. breathes new life into Iron Man
Film Comments Updated: May 08, 2013 5:20pmThe modern Robert Downey Jr. was not a creation of Iron Man. Three years earlier, he starred in a much smaller film, one that even with his massive success since, people have unfortunately avoided....
Name that poet
Books Comments May 01, 2013 6:53pmIn a recent essay for The Millions, a literary website, humorist Patrick Wensink — honoring April as National Poetry Month — wrote about his lifelong aversion to poetry. This is where Las Vegas comes...
