Perspectives from a Professor
Order your tickets now – The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls is terrific. You’ve never seen anything like Jools and Linda Topp, lesbian twins whose country music and variety act characters have made them cultural icons in New Zealand. They love the farm life and the limelight, and I don’t think political activism has ever seemed …
Part of the Documentary Competition at RiverRun International Film Festival, His & Hers is an Irish film that weaves together snippets of interviews with Irish women, mainly about the men in their lives. The interviews start with the youngest subjects and work chronologically to the oldest of those interviewed, and the result is interesting if …
The Reynolda Film Festival was terrific! I really liked The Messenger (which I had been interested in seeing for some time) and thought Spike Lee inspired the students in the crowd Friday night. The Wake Forest students who worked on the festival were extremely professional and put on a great program. Now it’s time to …
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WHEN: Friday, March 26, 2010 WHERE: Wait Chapel on the Wake Forest University Campus TICKETS: Free to WFU students, faculty, and staff and $5 for others DETAILS: http://www.reynoldafilmfestival.com/Events_All.html It’s no secret that I watch a lot of media, especially films. I watch them. I think about them many times each day. I write about …
Yawn… The new sitcom Sons of Tucson (FOX, Sundays 9:30 p.m.) carries the tagline, “Fake Dad. Real Trouble.” Three boys need someone to play their dad and register them for school because their actual father is a banker in prison over financial malfeasance. The brothers don’t want to go into foster care and hire a …