A Magazine covering Western North Carolina and the Asheville NC Art Scene
Last year, The Artist, The Descendants, Hugo and Midnight in Paris topped virtually everyone’s critical lists. For me, they topped my critical and personal top tens. This year was quite different, and ranking my critical top 10 films for the Southeast Film Critics Association ballots proved a bit of a challenge. What wasn’t a challenge […]
The Bourne Legacy ***1/2 Short Take: There was never just one. Reel Take: The tag line for The Bourne Legacy is “There was never just one.” This is a fitting line to lure Bourne fans (like myself) to the theatre. Written and directed by Bourne architect Tony Gilroy, The Bourne Legacy opens with the silhouetted […]
The Monthly Reel by Michelle Keenan As we put this issue to bed the summer blockbuster season is nearing its end. This season has delivered some crowd pleasing blockbusters including The Avengers, Christopher Nolan’s Batman Rises, and more recently The Expendables. However, in a summer chockablock full of big budget CGI fests, Chip and I […]
