Archive for December, 2009
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
The Maid
The Maid. Que? Was there a point to this movie other than having one friend for a few weeks in your entire life can make you want to jog? Better subtitling might have helped, although I don’t think so - I hate white on white subtitles! Outtakes from a Telemundo soap opera? Don’t feel [...]
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Monday, December 28th, 2009
Best events of the year and/or the decade
I am interested in hearing what people thought were the best in movies and live events at the Lyric over the past year and 10 years. We have a FaceBook group - Lyric Blacksburg Best Events Ever - or you can post them here. Let us hear what you liked and what programming you’d like [...]
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Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
A Serious Man
What the ,,,,,? Huh? I mean, it , uh …. Ya know, that’s ….huh? The Lyric has shown some odd movies in it’s time but this one is , well, pretty odd. The Coen Brothers do Woody Allen with yiddish yin/yang schadenfreude to the sound track of Surrealistic Pillow by the Jefferson Airplane.
A Serious Man [...]
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Pirate Radio
I had seen and read reviews of Pirate Radio and while it looked enticing, what I had read was that it was not historically nor musically accurate. And that is true. But the movie is so funny and musically great, WHO CARES? My first thought, second actually, as I left the theatre was “don’t trust [...]
