Growing up in the 1970s, boxing wasn’t just a sport—it was an integral part of American pop culture, entwined with television, comics, and films. Over the decades since the 1950s, boxing had transformed; it wasn’t merely about two competitors in a ring. Instead, it morphed into a spectacle of almost mythical proportions, where fighters weren’t just athletes—they were superheroes. Continue Reading
The Center for Cultural Preservation, WNC’s Documentary and History Center will hold a Moonshine Tasting Party and a film screening to raise the finishing funds to produce its seventh documentary film, Moonshining in the Mountains. Moonshining was part of the fabric of Western North Carolina since it was originally settled, asContinue Reading
As we head into month five of COVID life, we’re all getting used to the “new normal.” Most businesses have been able to adapt in some compacity in order to survive this unprecedented time. For movie theatres, it meant pivoting to a virtual platform. Ordering Take-out Central and streaming moviesContinue Reading
UNC Asheville will offer the community a chance for a safe, entertaining change of scenery the evening of May 29, presenting a free drive-in screening of Disney-Pixar’s Onward, with food trucks available on site. Onward is rated PG. To help maintain safe social distancing, only 65 vehicles will be admitted and advance tickets areContinue Reading
The song, “Beautiful Ghosts,” is performed by Francesca Hayward in the film, and by Swift in the film’s end credits Cats arrives in theaters December 20, 2019 – Universal Pictures announced that global music icon Taylor Swift and legendary composer Andrew Lloyd Webber have collaborated on a new, original song written for Universal Pictures’Continue Reading
Solo: A Star Wars Story **** Short Take: The Star Wars franchise continues to expand with an episode for the original faithful – a back story about everyone’s favorite pilot / smuggler from a galaxy far, far away. REEL TAKE: With the last chapter in the Star Wars franchise releasedContinue Reading
5 Movie Sequels We’ll Probably Never Get to See Sometimes, a sequel is worth making, as in the case of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, which kicked off the summer of 2017 with a bang, as we reported here on Rapid River Magazine. The film went on to earnContinue Reading
If ever there was a retro mainstream movie in this current climate of big-budget superhero movies or small, quirky independent ones, then The Man Who Invented Christmas is it. It is tailor-made for a particular demographic that has long been marginalized by Hollywood. Those filmgoers who are over 40 andContinue Reading
Now that The Man Who Invented Christmas has been released to theaters, which version of A Christmas Carol would be the best one to watch afterward? There have been countless movie versions of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol over the years. One of the very first releases was madeContinue Reading
