PLANS to bulldoze a New Forest theatre have sparked claims that the area is in danger of becoming a "cultural desert". Civic chiefs have approved an application to replace the Waterside Theatre in Long Lane, Holbury, with a sports pavilion and a community garden. The large facility - a former cinema - was built about 70 years ago to serve … [Read more...]
‘Marvel’s 616’: Alison Brie, Gillian Jacobs talk about their new docu-series, comics and superheroes
After trailblazing the box office with the immense success of their superhero movies like the Iron Man and The Avengers series, Marvel now adds an unique anthology series to its staple: Marvel’s 616, an eight-episode documentary that explores the company’s legacy of creating characters and storytelling to reflect the world as we know … [Read more...]
Hollywood, the virus, and how a small family-owned theater is staging an impossible comeback
For Chanel Casteel, 2020 started off filled with excitement. Movie lovers across the country were then and now anxiously waiting for Top Gun: Maverick and the final Daniel Craig installment in the James Bond series. Both movies were pushed to 2021, and it looks like we'll all be waiting even longer for other highly anticipated theatrical … [Read more...]
An Artist Who Paints in Cryptic Pastel Symbols
Even as a child, Caroline Kent was immersed in the language of abstraction. The Chicago-based artist — whose large-scale black canvases evoke cosmic unknowns — grew up alongside her identical twin sister, Christine Leventhal, with whom she shared special methods of communication. Their conversations can still be so elliptical and condensed that … [Read more...]
Steve McQueen says it took 11 years to create his new anthology ‘Small Axe’ and reveals why producers almost pulled out of his Oscar-winning film ’12 Years a Slave’
The award-winning film director Steve McQueen spoke to Insider about "Small Axe," his collection of five new films set to debut on Amazon Prime Video this week. Each film explores a different story of West Indian people, living in London between the 1960s to the 1980s, and McQueen told Insider that he has been working on the project for over a … [Read more...]
Eleven Arts and Music Organizations to Support on Give Miami Day
Miami's tourism-based economy has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic this year, but no community has suffered more than the arts and music sector. While restaurants and bars have repeatedly closed and reopened (albeit controversially), cultural spaces, which inherently lend themselves to mass gatherings, have largely remained shuttered or … [Read more...]
