Mark Burger

Three years ago, noted filmmaker Adam McKay unleashed his contemporary sci-fi satire Don’t Look Up, in which Earth is threatened by an approaching comet. While politicians and pundits delay and

GALAXY QUEST (Paramount Home Entertainment): Dean Parisot directed this charmingly quirky, award-winning 1999 comedy in which the cast of a small-screen sci-fi series (called Galaxy Quest ) is recruited by an alien race called the Thermians to defend their planet from a hostile invasion because they’ve mistakenly assumed the series depicted their actual interstellar adventures.

This weekend, Trafalgar Releasing will present the concert extravaganza Laufey’s A Night at the Symphony: Hollywood Bowl at selected theaters nationwide, showcasing the Grammy Award-winning artist’s singular vocal talents backed

Heretic, the latest big-screen shocker from the writer/producer/director duo of Scott Beck and Bryan Woods (best known for writing 2014’s A Quiet Place ), marks a substantial accomplishment and a potential landmark in the genre. Heretic

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The Little Theatre of Winston-Salem will hold auditions for its upcoming production of August Wilson’s acclaimed stage drama “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” from 6 to 8 p.m. at 419 N.

It’s long been the conjecture of this critic (and others) that as the weather gets colder, movies get better — as potential awards contenders jockey for position and prestige. So it is with The Order, a hard-hitting police procedural based on Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt’s 1989 non-fiction best-seller “The Silent Brotherhood” that is certain to reap deserved accolades come year’s end.

Producer/director Luca Guadagnino’s screen adaptation of the 1985 William S. Burroughs novella “Queer” is, by turns, evocative, sensual, provocative, stylish, and steeped in the distinctive milieu of Burroughs — but

All good things come to an end, but for Rob Davis, whose retirement takes effect December 31, the eight years he spent as executive director of the RiverRun International Film

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (The Criterion Collection): A classic American novel. A classic American movie – perhaps a perfect one.