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Fargo: More Than Just a Small-town Crime Caper
Fargo is a good one, you betcha! The telephone rings at 3am, and a pregnant woman puts on her police uniform to go out into the Minnesota winter. “Eggs,” her sleepy husband says. He wants to make her eggs. We see them eating at a small table in the kitchen.…
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No Country for Old Men
No Country for Old Men opens with an emotionally restrained voiceover from Tommy Lee Jones. “I was sheriff of this county when I was twenty-five years old . . . Some of the old time sheriffs never even wore a gun. A lotta folks find that hard to believe .…
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A Conversation with Joanna Wilson, Author of The Triple Dog Dare
As a pop culture writer specializing in Christmas entertainment, I’m frequently asked each year by readers and journalists if I still watch A Christmas Story marathon on TV. The truth is, I do. The 24-hour marathon of A Christmas Story has been airing on the cable networks TBS or TNT…
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Miracle on 34th Street Celebrates 70 Years of Holiday Magic
Miracle On 34th Street, which celebrates the 70th anniversary of its release this year, first appeared in Theaters on June 4, 1947. That’s right, one of the all-time classic, most beloved Christmas films was released in the summer! We suspect that most people reading this blog are familiar with this…
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Name A Seat Campaign At The Byrd
Be a part of the Name A Seat Campaign at the Byrd! After nearly 90 years, seats at the Byrd Theatre are finally being replaced. The much-anticipated seats will be installed in the center section in September, and we’re offering you the opportunity to sponsor a new seat! For $250, you…
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Double Indemnity: A Film Noir Classic
Billy Wilder’s 1944 Double Indemnity is one of the “grand-dads” of the wonderfully rich film noir genre. This picture has all the classic film noir elements: a detective (in the person of claims investigator Barton Keyes, played memorably by Edward G. Robinson), an anti-hero in the protagonist Walter Neff…
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A Frightfully Good Collection of Universal Monster Movies
Only six years pass between 1954’s Creature from the Black Lagoon, the last of the classic Universal monster horror films, and 1960’s Peeping Tom, the first film we might call a “slasher film,” but once the gates were open for blood and violence and full-bore terror, it didn’t take long…
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The Big LeBYRDski
November 3, 2017 – November 3, 2017 2908 West Cary Street Map and Directions Description: Center of the Universe Brewing and The Byrd Theatre Foundation are excited to invite you to a special event screening of the one and only The Big Lebowski. For the second year in a row, COTU…
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Phantom of the Opera
Friday, October 27 7:30 p.m. Join us for one of Richmond’s favorite Halloween events – the screening of the 1925 ORIGINAL “Phantom of the Opera” with the one and only Lon Chaney. This year’s screening of this iconic silent film is accompanied at console of the Mighty Wurlitzer, for the second…
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It's Showtime for "All That Jazz"
All That Jazz‘s opening scene is a stunning Broadway “cattle call” audition shot in documentary style. It begins with dozens of dancers auditioning on a very crowded stage. One by one, the director dismisses them until the stage is nearly bare. It’s a great way to kick things off, painting an immediate…
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