September 26th, 2009 03:24pm
by In.The.Dark
The Wine Country Film Festival is slipping away, and while some us work the weekends (ahem) most of you are out there scouring the entertainment section for something to do. My recommendation? Head over to Napa to see a movie or two of this year’s film fest offerings.
It may not be too late to catch Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies, which you gotta love for its title and its …
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September 19th, 2009 12:49pm
by In.The.Dark
Michael Moore’s new film “Capitalism: A Love Story” is getting all the ink, but there’s more than the supersized documentarian’s latest at the Wine Country Film Festival, running now through next weekend.
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August 31st, 2009 06:45pm
by In.The.Dark
There is no single cool thing about Cold Souls, the new movie starring Paul Giamatti (now playing at the Rialto Lakeside). Rather, there are a plethora (is a plethora?) of them – the touchstones with Being John Malkevich, the overt references to Russian lit (including Gogol’s “Dead Souls”), the pun-filled and smart dialog. And of course there’s Paul Giamatti, who can be the biggest reason to see any movie he’s …
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August 9th, 2009 03:41pm
by In.The.Dark
A few years ago I picked up a copy of Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking at a yard sale. Of course I’d heard of it, seen the show on TV every now and then, knew the pop culture popularity of the oversized icon. But the first thing I did was fry — pardon me, sauté up some onions, following her butter-heavy recipe.
They were the best sautéed onions …
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July 12th, 2009 05:52pm
by In.The.Dark
Next Monday, July 20, marks the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing. It’s an event at once hoarily historic and strangely futuristic, like a Jules Verne story that actually happened. It marked the end of the Sixties, in a way, the last great act of the decade that brought us the Beatles, the Civil Rights Act, the Vietnam War, and so many other touchstones of today’s world. It was …
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