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'Papillon' remake is handsome but slow prison drama

Tuesday, 2 October 2018, 12:03 Last update: about 9 years ago

Danish director Michael Noer's "Papillon " remake, adapted from both Henri Charriere's autobiography and the 1973 Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman film, is a sumptuous-looking but slow-moving prison...

Joshua Cohen's 'Attention' demands your whole focus

Tuesday, 2 October 2018, 11:46 Last update: about 9 years ago Associated Press

"Attention: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction" (Random House), by Joshua Cohen If curiosity is a writer's greatest innate gift, Joshua Cohen may be America's greatest living writer. Or...

Breaking the divide between us and them

Tuesday, 2 October 2018, 10:33 Last update: about 9 years ago

The award-winning play Us/Them will be the second play produced by The Shrinking Violets. Their last - Ernest and the Pale Moon - played to sold-out audiences at Palazzo de la Salle last October. This...

Freddy Krueger ready to scare the cast of 'The Goldbergs'

Tuesday, 2 October 2018, 08:53 Last update: about 9 years ago Associated Press

Freddy Krueger is coming for "The Goldbergs." ABC announced Friday that Robert Englund is reprising his role as the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" slasher for a Halloween episode of the ABC...

Neil Finn and son Liam get dreamy on 'Lightsleeper'

Tuesday, 2 October 2018, 08:46 Last update: about 9 years ago Associated Press

Neil & Liam Finn, "Lightsleeper" (Inertia/PIAS) "Lightsleeper" is the result of another crowded house at the Finn residence. The album principals, father Neil and son Liam, get the rest of...

Kingsley: I wanted to nail Eichmann to gates of Auschwitz

Monday, 1 October 2018, 12:01 Last update: about 9 years ago Associated Press

Ben Kingsley said he didn't portray Adolf Eichmann out of love or admiration. Rather, he wanted to "nail him to the gates of Auschwitz." The Oscar-winning Kingsley, who has tackled historical...

'Under a Dark Sky' has shrewd plot, realistic characters

Monday, 1 October 2018, 11:29 Last update: about 9 years ago

"Under a Dark Sky" (Morrow), by Lori Rader-Day A dark sky park where even the slightest glimmer of light is blocked out provides a fascinating backdrop for Lori Rader-Day's inventive fourth...

Murder By Death's 8th album is pensive space western

Friday, 28 September 2018, 15:18 Last update: about 9 years ago

Murder By Death, "The Other Shore" (Bloodshot Records) On "The Other Shore," Murder By Death challenges the preconception that Pink Floyd, David Bowie and Richard Strauss are what's usually...

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