We Need to Talk About Kevin: Do we ever
What’s worse than watching tragedy strike your kid? Watching your kid be the tragedy that strikes other people, starting with yourself.
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Spring! SPRING! There is so much spring right now that I don’t know how we stand it. This weekend there are plenty of chances to go outside and spring it up all over town. Smell the tulips, eat the funnel cake, and watch your winter blues melt away. It’s April, y’all!
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A wise man once said, “When a film festival and a craft fair turn 20 on the same year that a huge behemoth of a race turns 13, we shall all have the best weekend ever.”
Richmond Ballet’s Studio 3: Ma Cong World Premiere and Jessica Lang’s La Belle Danse
Studio 3 blows all previous Studios out of the water with one world premiere and one previous Richmond Ballet world premiere. Even if you don’t know how to talk about ballet (I empathize), expect to feel things.
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Culture, cars, and commentators. If I were writing a paper about this weekend, that would be my title. Here are some high-falutin’ and some lower-falutin’ events for you to check out this weekend. They come highly recommended.
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So you don’t have tickets to Elton John. Just turn on 98.9 Liberty FM and enjoy his entire discography while on the way to these five other things. They haven’t been knighted, but we love them for what they are.
John Carter: A man walks into a Barsoom
A Civil War vet from Virginia ends up on Mars. Why would you not want to see this movie?
The Artist: everything you ever wanted to know
For the record, I really wanted this review to have no words in it, but I was shot down.
Franz and the Real Girl: Richmond Ballet’s Coppélia is a funny Valentine
Ballet, for all its heartbreaking beauty, can follow some seriously bizarre storylines (try explaining The Nutcracker to someone someday), and Arthur Saint-Léon’s Coppélia is one of the weirder ones.
Susan Year Itch: Scrooges and Grinches
A running theme through holiday films is how the holidays turn characters into grumpy complainers. How well Hollywood knows us!
