A Saturday night in Downtown Staunton: You don’t have to search high and low for something fun to do
I’m sitting in Shenandoah Pizza with a group of friends on a Saturday night. We’re there to hear a friend’s band play a gig, and after their first set we got antsy to see what else might be going on in Downtown Staunton.
I was appointed tour guide, and set out to see what was going on at Baja Bean up Beverley Street, what was playing at The Visulite around the corner and then doubled back to The Dixie to check out the playbill there. Read more
Carly at the Movies | Best films of 2008 now available
If you happened to miss any of the most-ballyhooed films of last year, they’re all finally available to valley denizens.
“Milk” and “Slumdog Millionaire” linger at The Visulite in Staunton, and “The Dark Knight” and “The Visitor” are both available on Pay-Per-View as well as on DVD. Two of the most interesting of recent films, “The Reader” and “The Wrestler,” are currently running at the Regal Downtown Mall in Charlottesville. Both are well worth the trip over Afton Mountain. Read more
Chris Graham | ‘Slumdog’ will hit you hard
I never leave a movie theater with tears streaming down my face. I’m not talking teary-eyed. That’s happened before. I’m talking a salty liquid on my cheek. “Slumdog Millionaire,” currently playing at The Visulite in Downtown Staunton, did that to me. Read more
‘Familiar Strangers’ brings familiar faces back home for the holidays
It may never again get to sit in the director’s chair during filming of a motion picture, so I owe Barry Sisson big time.
The movie is “Familiar Strangers,” though I didn’t know that two falls ago when Sisson, the executive producer of “Familiar Strangers,” gave me the big chair for a half-hour during filming on location in Augusta County. I think I remember hearing the title last year when Sisson’s Cavalier Films did a test screening of the picture, which stars DJ Qualls, Shawn Hatosy, Tom Bower, Ann Dowd, Cameron Richardson and Nikki Reed, at The Visulite in Downtown Staunton. Read more
Carl Larsen | Secrets of the hive revealed
Hollywood is still abuzz with the news: “The Secret Life of Bees,” currently at The Visulite in Staunton, is a honey of a movie.
And while many films based on best-selling books are disappointing, you won’t get stung by this one.
(OK, OK. Enough with the Apoidean puns, already. No more, I promise. Stretching for them gives me the hives, anyway. Let’s start over.) Read more
Smart people will enjoy ‘Smart People’
Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen
What a relief! Imagine a movie where people talk about their problems rather than just shooting each others’ brains out! If such a premise sounds kinda new and appealing to you, don’t miss “Smart People,” coming soon to the Visualite in Downtown Staunton. Read more
Carly at the Movies | Need a dull summer job? Try ‘Adventureland’!
Posted by afp on April 13, 2009 · Leave a Comment
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