“Tonight I get to do 2 of my favorite things, comedy and charging people money for music.” – Steve Martin on stage at the Durham Performing Arts Center last Saturday night.
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Daniel Johnson is a Raleigh based writer whose work has appeared in the Indpendent, Chapel Hill News, and has been featured many times on the IMDb Hit List. Daniel writes prolifically about the world of pop culture mainly focusing on film.
Live Review: Acting Legend Al Pacino at DPAC 5/20/11
Al Pacino may have rambled at times, but he was never less than fascinating. Sure, it was an evening of indulgence, but few movie stars, even ones with comparable backgrounds in theater, could’ve pulled it off as charmingly.
As a loser Maid of Honor, Kristen Wiig wins out in “Bridesmaids”
Ignore the accusations of this movie being a female version of “The Hangover” and the superficial resemblance to such chick flick crap as “Bride Wars,” because “Bridesmaids” is an extremely funny movie that really deserves to make Kristen Wiig a star.
Of Monks and Terrorists
“Of Gods and Men” (Dir. Xavier Beauvois, 2010) The most stirring scene of this immaculately affecting French film involves a group of Trappist monks singing towards a stained glass window in their Algerian monastery as an armed helicopter hovers above. Granted, it takes a while to get there as this film is a real slow… Continue reading Of Monks and Terrorists
10 Things I learned at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2011
At the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival last weekend, I saw 20 docs (some were shorts), and really felt like I learned quite a bit from all the glorious infotainment from all over the globe.