**** Stars La La Land – A Musical Love Letter for Hollywood Dreamers Short Take: The old school, Cinemascope Hollywood musical gets a 21st century millennial makeover as an aspiring…
DVD Pick “Hidden Figures” Breaking barriers with beautiful minds and the ‘right stuff.’
*** 1/2 Stars Hidden Figures Breaking barriers with beautiful minds and the ‘right stuff.’ Short Take: A feel-good, populist historical drama about three African American women who worked as “computers”…
‘Manchester By The Sea’ (2016) A fantastic family drama
Short Take: A quiet janitor returns to his hometown when he is awarded guardianship of his teenage nephew. It’s a family drama like none you’ve ever seen before. REEL…
December DVD Pick — ‘Love Actually’ (2003)
As the song goes, ‘It’s the most wonderful time of the year,’ but for 2016 that’s not exactly setting the bar very high, except perhaps when it comes to film….
PBS Premiere Screening Party for Award-Winning Turtle Documentary November 21 in Hendersonville
The Center for Cultural Preservation’s award-winning film about sea turtles and human culture, Call of the Ancient Mariner, is coming to public television and the Center is having a party and a…
HENDERSONVILLE FILM SOCIETY: November 2016 Movie Schedule
HENDERSONVILLE FILM SOCIETY: November 2016 Movie Schedule – Our final month of movies for 2016 starts off with a Depression era fantasy about politics. Next is a movie about collecting…
Culture Vulture Film Festival Offers New Mountain Films, Dinner, Music
Culture Vulture Film Festival Offers New Mountain Films, Dinner, Music The Center for Cultural Preservation, WNC’s mountain heritage cultural organization, presents a film festival featuring sumptuous local barbecue, great music…
DVD Pick ‘Genius’
Genius (2016) Short Take: The story of the friendship between renowned editor Max Perkins and the larger than life literary giant – and Asheville’s native son – Thomas Wolfe. REEL…
October Hendersonville Film Society schedule
OCT 2: THE FRISCO KID (1979) – Gene Wilder stars as a Polish Rabbi in 1850 America trying to go from Philadelphia to San Francisco with the aid of an…