Up To Date's Indie, Foreign & Doc Critics''Three To See,' Oct 18-20
Looking for a great film to see the weekend of Oct. 18-20? Up to Date's indie, documentary and foreign film critics share their three favorites showing on area screens. Cynthia Haines:Parkland In A...
View ArticleUp To Date's Indie, Foreign & Doc Critics''Three To See,' Oct 25-27
Looking for a great film to see the weekend of Oct. 25-27? Up to Date's indie, documentary and foreign film critics share their three favorites showing on area screens. Cynthia Haines:SalingerParkland...
View ArticleWhat's Showing In Independent, Foreign And Documentary Film, Nov. 1
A young girl in Saudi Arabia searches for a way to make her life better, and a free man finds himself shackled and enslaved for 12 years on a Louisiana plantation. On Friday's Up to Date, our...
View ArticleFilm Review: '12 Years A Slave' A Portrait Of Dignity Under Extreme Duress
In director Steve McQueen’s thematically brutal yet beautifully composed film 12 Years a Slave, Chiwetel Ejiofor gives an astonishing performance as Solomon Northup, a black musician whose trusting...
View ArticleUp To Date's Indie, Foreign & Doc Critics''Three To See,' Nov. 1-3
Looking for a great film to see the weekend of Nov. 1-3? Up to Date's indie, documentary and foreign film critics share their three favorites showing on area screens. Cynthia Haines: 12 Years A Slave...
View ArticleMovie Critics: Depictions Of Slavery In Film
The controversial new film 12 Years a Slave has been touted as the front runner for this year's Best Picture Oscar. It depicts the memoir of a free black man who was kidnapped into slavery.While some...
View ArticleA Look At The New KU Basketball Film, 'Jayhawkers'
KU basketball had a different sort of atmosphere back in the 1950s. In addition to some Phog, one of the things that changed the weather there was a certain player called Wilt Chamberlain.On Friday's...
View ArticleUp To Date's Indie, Foreign & Doc Critics''Three To See,' Nov. 8-10
Looking for a great film to see the weekend of November 8-10? Up to Date's indie, documentary and foreign film critics share their three favorites showing on area screens.Cynthia Haines:Wadjda12 Years...
View ArticleThe Film That Shaped America's JFK Memories
The silently haunting images of the Zapruder film captured the moment John F. Kennedy was shot during that famous Dallas parade in 1963. Those images have become part of the mythology that surrounds...
View ArticleFilm Review: A Love Affair Ebbs And Flows In Controversial 'Blue Is The...
Blue is the Warmest Color, the winner of the Palmed’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, is a frank and honest examination of a relationship from a heated first glance to its dying embers.
View ArticleUp to Date's Indie, Foreign & Doc Critics''Three To See," Nov. 15-17
Looking for a great film to see the weekend of November 8-10? Up to Date's indie, documentary and foreign film critics share their three favorites showing on area screens.
View ArticleFilm Review: 'Dallas Buyers Club' Becomes A Haven For People With AIDS In The...
In 1985, just a handful of years into the AIDS epidemic, if someone appeared gaunt, splotchy, and paper-thin, it was suspected that they had contracted HIV. Though gay men made up a large percentage of...
View ArticleUp To Date's Indie, Foreign & Doc Critics''Three To See,' Nov. 22-24
Looking for a great film to see the weekend of Nov. 22-24? Up to Date's indie, documentary and foreign film critics share their three favorites showing on area screens. Cynthia Haines: 12 Years a...
View ArticleFilm Review: In 'Philomena,' The Cruelties Of Youth Are Forgiven
In Stephen Frears' heartfelt and moving Philomena, the most effective shots are among the simplest a filmmaker can employ: tight close-ups. In this case, the camera’s focus is on the furrowed, and...
View ArticleMovie Critics: What You Should See Right Now
The Thanksgiving movie releases have provided us with a cornucopia of cinematic offerings to choose from. Do we have a lot to be thankful for or have we been served up a batch of celluloid turkeys?On...
View ArticleDVD Gurus: Reporters On Film
From a manufactured media circus, to a desperate game of cat-and-mouse with a serial killer, Hollywood sure knows how to romanticize journalism.On Friday's Up to Date, DVD Gurus Mitch Brian and Jason...
View ArticleUp To Date's Indie, Foreign & Doc Critics''Three To See,' December 6-8
Looking for a great film to see the weekend of Dec. 6-8? Up to Date's indie, documentary and foreign film critics share their three favorites showing on area screens.Cynthia Haines: Muscle Shoals 12...
View ArticleFilm Review: Alex Gibney Documentary Unravels 'The Armstrong Lie'
The documentary Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney started to make in 2009 about Lance Armstrong ended up being something else entirely. Called The Armstrong Lie, the film contains footage that was...
View ArticleThe Film Critics' Top 10 Indie, Foreign And Documentary Films of 2013
It's that time of year again, and Up to Date's independent, foreign and documentary film critics have picked their favorite films of the year. Drumroll, please, for Cynthia Haines, Steve Walker and Bob...
View ArticleWhat's Showing In Independent, Foreign & Documentary Film, December 13
Lance Armstrong’s fall from grace after years of secrets and denials was ripe for telling on the silver screen. When the complicated web of performance-enhancing drugs collapsed, his career lay in...
View ArticleFilm Review: 'The Punk Singer' Who Influenced Rock Stars More Famous Than Her
On the basis of Sini Anderson's enlightening and electric documentary The Punk Singer, many will come to consider its subject, Kathleen Hanna, one of the most influential musicians they've never heard...
View ArticleUp To Date's Indie, Foreign & Doc Critics''Three To See,' Dec. 20-22
Looking for a great film to see the weekend of Dec. 20-22? Up to Date's indie, documentary and foreign film critics share their three favorites showing on area screens.Cynthia Haines:
View ArticleUp To Date's Indie, Foreign & Doc Critics''Three To See,' Dec. 27-29
Looking for a great film to see the weekend of Dec. 27-29? Up to Date's indie, documentary and foreign film critics share their three favorites showing on area screens.Cynthia Haines:American Hustle...
View ArticleFilm Review: Even In Spiritual Decline, Rome Remains 'The Great Beauty'
Throughout Paolo Sorrentino’s exuberant and strange film The Great Beauty, a 65-year-old writer whose only hit novel was published 40 years prior struggles with his own reputation and mortality, as...
View ArticleUp To Date's Indie, Foreign & Doc Critics''Three To See,' Jan. 3-5
Looking for a great film to see the weekend of Jan. 3-5? Up to Date's indie, documentary and foreign film critics share their three favorites showing on area screens.Cynthia Haines: 12 Years a Slave...
View ArticleMovie Critics: The Best (And Worst) Movies Of 2013
This was another record-breaking year at the box office for the film industry and on Friday's Central Standard, the movie critics gather 'round to share what they felt were the best (and worst) movies...
View ArticleFilm Review: A Family's Heirlooms Are Spite And Malice in 'August: Osage County'
If done well, movies about dysfunctional families are able to elegantly dance that fine line between humor and pain. Terms of Endearment succeeded at finding that balance, as does the film adaptation...
View ArticleWhat's Showing In Independent, Foreign & Documentary Film, January 10
The latest round of film releases coming to area theaters have heavy subjects to say the least.On Friday's Up to Date, our independent, foreign, and documentary film critics return with some praise and...
View ArticleUp To Date's Indie, Foreign & Doc Critics''Three To See,' Jan. 17-19
This year's Academy Award nominations are out, and to no one's surprise, independent, foreign, and documentary films are on the list.Here are Up to Date's critics' favorite indie, doc and foreign films...
View ArticleMaking A Pie, Telling A Story
The smell of pie might inspire most of us to get a fork and plate, but for one author, it means a story. In the first part of Wednesday's Up to Date, we talk with the woman behind the new Kate...
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