‘Arts’ Archives
“High-Rise”
BY HOWARD MCQUITTER II Howardsmoviecorner.com                                                  howardmcquitter68@gmail.com *** of Five Stars Action/Sci-Fi/Drama From the beginning of Ben Wheatley”'s “High-Rise,” the signs of a disturbing venture are in store for the viewers. Just minutes into “High-Rise,” the setting backs of three months earlier when a doctor Robert Laing (Tom Hiddleston) after recently losing his sister moves into a spacious apartment on the 25th floor of this futurist high-rise (would be in the 1970s here). (J.G. Ballard”'s 1975 novel adapted to silver screen by Ben Wheatley with the same title.) Laing goes on to say he feels he”'s living in the future that has already taken place. Whether or not, Laing is aware of what is [...]
Phoenix Deadline May 30th: This is My Story
BY PATRICK CABELLO HANSEL The third issue of The Phoenix of Phillips, our local literary magazine, will be published early this summer. The theme is “This is My Story”. We are looking for poems and reflections that tell your story, big or small: who you are, how you came to be in Phillips, what your hopes are for our neighborhood. Anyone who lives or works in Phillips, of any age and any ability are invited to submit. Deadline is May 30. E-mail your work to stpaulscreate@gmail.com, or mail it to: The Phoenix of Phillips, c/o St. Paul”'s Lutheran Church, 2742 15th Ave. S. Minneapolis, MN 55407
“Hail Caesar”
“Hail Caesar” **** Comedy/Mystery PG13 Our beloved Minneapolis (St. Louis Park, exactly) native directors, brothers Joel and Ethan Coen, bring forth “Hail, Caesar!”, another off-the-wall comedy, screwy, boisterous similar to their other comedies “The Big Lebowski”(1997), “O Brother, Where, “Burn After Reading” (2008). Like an old-school western, the Coens”' “Hail, Caesar! “rewinds the clock back to the Hollywood of the 1950s. What “Hail, Caesar!” does for me”“at least”“in the nostalgic sense, when I was a boy sitting in a theater (one screen) watching the fullness of CinemaScope, the new larger than life invention in 1953.There”'s a lot here that more than meets the eye, I mean, in “Hail, Caesar!”, especially for a baby boomer like myself. To start off, Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin) is the head of Capitol Studios with his loaded hands of keeping a struggling studio [...]
