Well, it’s been a long time coming, but it was finally officially announced that The Uptown will be closing on January 31st for remodeling. Granted, this “rumor” has been floating around since as long as I’ve been living in the Twin Cities (which would be just short of 17 years now) and probably long before …
For this Triple Bill Tuesday I start off by keeping it serious with a screening of Network as the latest Cooper Classic out at the ICON, then I am heading home to wash my palette with my favorite John Carpenter film (not to be confused with The Thing which is his best film) and a …
Friend and former co-worker Joe Larsen (he’s the Uptown manager who doesn’t wear a tie) will be screening his film tonight, we stay indoors at the Trylon Microcinema, courtesy of Take-Up Productions. I’d say more about this, but I haven’t seen the film yet, cause some jerk scheduled the screening on a night I work …
Alex Cox’s Repo Chick (2009) doesn’t serve so much as a sequel to its landmark punk/science-fiction namesake, 1984′s Repo Man; rather, it is a re-imagining of the world of the repo people for the 21st century. Instead of the overly-microwaved, down and out early-eighties setting of the original, Cox sets this film in a bent, …