July 30, 2012 - 11:16am
It's Harrison Ford versus Nazis, tonight at Iroquois Amphitheater
A friend and I had a really interesting conversation about Steven Spielberg recently. He pointed out that Spielberg only makes movies about two things: monsters and persecution. At first, it makes perfect sense. What are his big movies? Jaws – monster. Jurassic Park, Close Encounters of the...
July 30, 2012 - 10:54am
Follow along as the men of constant sorrow set out to find 1.2 Million big ones.
It is now two weekends since the 11th annual Lebowski Fest, a celebration of all things involved with the Coen Brothers' 1998 cult classic The Big Lebowski. While this film is probably the most party-worthy, we should not forget the rest of the Coen's repertoire. They are perhaps among the...
July 29, 2012 - 3:03am
Check out the Louisville LGBT Film Festival's event with Del Shores, writer and director of Sordid Lives and Southern Baptist Sissies. Event starts with a silent auction at 6 pm and Del Shores starts at 7 pm. Everything is happening at the Red Barn on the campus of The University of Louisville...
July 27, 2012 - 4:20pm
"With the recent events across the country dealing with the mass shooting in Colorado with the Joker issue, it was kind of alarming to that vice president, who felt threatened."
Over in Lexington, a University of Kentucky senior Political Science student named Steven Kennedy reportedly sent an email to UK associate vice president Terry Allen, along with an image of the Joker from the new Batman movie, The Dark Knight. If Mr. Kennedy intended this as some sort of joke...
July 27, 2012 - 3:50pm
This documentary tells the story of Houda al-Habash, a Muslim woman who founded a religious school for girls.
Religion is traditionally a man’s game. In the religion I grew up in, the attitude towards the two genders was very much a “separate but equal” type of position. (Disclosure: this is my cynical – but accurate – view of a religion I have since left.) While women in this...