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Movie Review: Baz Lurhmann’s The Great Gatsby Is a Brash, Loud, Entertaining, and Flimsy Take on Fitzgerald’s Novel
Say what you want about Baz Luhrmann’s busy, caustic, cacophonic, messy, indulgent, slapstick, adaptation of The Great Gatsby. The director is at least trying to make Fitzgerald’s novel feel new.
By Peter Simek
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Movie Review: Why Ramin Bahrani’s Filmmaking Excursion to Hardworking Middle America, At Any Price, Doesn’t Quite Work
If you are familiar with the work of director Ramin Bahrani, then his new movie will surprise you, not least because Bahrani has exported his talent from the East Coast to Iowa.
By Peter Simek
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Movie Review: Does Cinematic Midnight’s Chidlren Do Justice to Salman Rushdie’s Acclaimed Novel?
The adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children is visually rich and sporadically entertaining, but something is lost in the translation from page to screen.
By Peter Simek
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Movie Review: The Source Family Didn’t Just Fit the Hippie Commune Stereotype, They May Have Invented It
The idea of the hippie commune -- idealist, utopian communities founded in a haze of exuberant mysticism, doting guru fidelity, and marijuana smoke – likely conjures up vague generalities: white robes, white-eyed meditation sessions, alfalfa sprout diets.
By Peter Simek
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No Place on Earth Tells a Remarkable Tale of Riding Out the Holocaust Underground
“We’re not survivors. We’re fighters. We fought,” wrote Esther Stermer years later about her family’s struggles during the Second World War. I’d never thought of that distinction before in regards to those who suffered the horrors of the Holocaust, but there’s no doubt that that’s what many of them did. They fought for their lives. Generations of the Stermers and a few dozen others Jews of a small Ukrainian village spent more than a year during the conflict living in underground caverns to hide from the occupying Germans and avoid being carted off to concentration camps or gas chambers. There was little food and water available, at times almost none. They spent days at a time in complete darkness, only a few of them ever able to risk venturing to the surface to obtain whatever provisions they could beg for or steal.
By Jason Heid
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Weekender: Dallas Area Concerts for May 9-11
On punk and fashion. Does Homegrown Fest really need to be all local? A uncharacteristically glossy show in Fort Worth, and more.
By Chris Mosley