Film

Ballet’s Strange Bird

Sunday, January 9, 2011

by Eliza Ingle

DARREN ARONOFSKY’s film, the ballet psycho-thriller “Black Swan” starring Natalie Portman, has received a love/hate reaction, much like the feeling I have with ballet in general. My head spins at the thought of the premise of the story: a ballet dancer, ostensibly with New York City Ballet (they are at Lincoln Center, though they... Read »

Former Marine Talks Filmmaking

Sunday, November 7, 2010

by ChasToday

TREVOR ERICKSON is a former U.S. Marine turned filmmaker, actor, and martial arts performer. He created the role of Henry Felder, Jr. in the original play, “Captain Felder’s Cannon” and repeated the role for the feature film version, “All For Liberty,” the action-adventure feature film shot in South Carolina about an American Revolutionary War... Read »

A Solution for This Country

“I want to see us begin again. Let’s get out of these wars and come on back here. Take all the money we are spending elsewhere, trying to control other places, and start to rebuild the structure. Put money and prestige back into the schools. Start teaching kids in day care. Scientists tell us the earlier kids start to learn, the more capable they are of learning, and we are not taking advantage of that. We start there and we put ourselves back in the running.”

~ actor Morgan Freeman in an interview with Garden&Gun

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