by Michelle Keenan & Chip Kaufmann – Diary of a Teenage Girl **** Short Take: The sexually frank story of a 15 year old girl in 1976 who has an…
DVD Picks for September 2015
Chip Kaufmann’s Pick: Java Heat (2013) Having thoroughly enjoyed No Escape (see my review this issue), I was immediately reminded of this little action flick from Indonesia that did decent…
Special Screening of ‘A Walk In The Woods’
by Steve Fiore The Appalachian Trail Conservancy (ATC) and the Carolina Mountain Club (CMC) will co-host a special screening of the new Robert Redford film, “A Walk in the Woods,”…
Movie Reviews – August 2015
by Michelle Keenan & Chip Kaufmann – Ant-Man **** Short Take: A refreshingly light superhero movie with big heart and lots of laughs. REEL TAKE: In the interest of full…
Best of Controlled Chaos
Film Festival and Benefit The Best of The Controlled Chaos Film Festival takes place Saturday, August 15, 2015 at the Martin Lipscomb Performing Arts Center in the Highlands. The festival…
DVD Picks for August 2015
Chip Kaufmann’s Pick: Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) This film was brought to mind by the recent release of the film Mr. Holmes (see my review this issue) about an elderly…
Movie Reviews – July 2015
Dope **** ½ Short Take: A precocious trio of misfits from ‘the Bottoms’ inadvertently end up with a backpack full of drugs, a gun and a wild ride. Reel Take:…
My Debt to Sir Christopher Lee
by Chip Kaufmann I first encountered Christopher Lee in 1962 when I was 10 years old. I didn’t know who he was, having not yet seen any of the classic…
DVD Picks for July 2015
Chip Kaufmann’s Pick: The Wicker Man (1973) It is “singularly unfortunate” (to quote my son) that for most people the title of The Wicker Man conjures up the 2006 abomination…