Archive for January, 2009
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
Slumdog Millionaire
The Lyric has been a busy place lately showing Slumdog Millionaire. It is a multilayered movie that is interesting but flawed. The bottom layer is a love story about two brothers, one good and one bad, and a girl they meet in the slums of Mumbai. Jamal is on the TV show Who Wants to [...]
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Monday, January 26th, 2009
Lyric Theatre Website
When is the last time you explored the Lyric Theatre website? When you have a few minutes, go to thelyric.com and check out what all you can find: the community calendar of Lyric events, what’s coming up on Live @ the Lyric, videos about Blacksbug done by local videographers, who are those strange people in [...]
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Monday, January 26th, 2009
Support Live @ the Lyric Shows!
Do you like live music? Fun family entertainment? Classy classical moments? Do you want to see more stars and continue seeing great live shows at the Lyric Theatre? Consider underwriting!
We need your support to ensure great live entertainment remains a staple at the Lyric. Individuals, businesses, corporate entities, even anonymous benefactors can help keep [...]
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
Synecdoche, New York
How can one review a movie that defies comprehension. It seemed to me that Kafka and Moliere got together and made a movie about Woody Allen with sidetracks of aliens from a sick psyche. Interesting? Yes. How cans someone’s mind twist the space/tome continuum in so many ways? You can’t call them plot twists because [...]
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Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
BOLT
I have two major problems with Bolt. First, I missed the first part of the Tow Mater from Radiator Springs featurette. Second, it wasn’t the 3D version! I went in wanting to not like this movie but it grabbed me from the start and never really let go.
I don’t like the bug-eyed, cute animation [...]
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
When i was growing up in Chicago, I was a Lutheran. We lived in an ethnic community - lots of different European families. ”Uncle” Simon, a Jew, was our shoe salesman. He sold us sturdy shoes and we looked in an xray machine at our feet to see if the shoes fit. I had a [...]
