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This fall, the films we want to watch are based on true stories
Fall Arts 2018: Forget hazy, lazy days of summer with these cool offerings for fall.
Ben Wiley
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Papillon: a prison-escape remake even muddier and bloodier than the original, and just as beautiful
Not just a remake, but rather an independent adaptation that transcends the genre.
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7 Questions for Michael Noer, director of the new Papillon, in theaters Friday
Remake? Update? Reconsideration? Whatever, it’s a massive directorial achievement.
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The Little Mermaid is an aspirational live-action tale for girls and boys alike
Ditch the cynicism and accept the fantasy.
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7 questions with Poppy Drayton and Will Moseley, stars of live-action The Little Mermaid.
It’s a Steinbrenner family production, filmed in part at Weeki Wachee Springs.
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Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman as trenchant attack on racial politics in America
Whoever the intended audience, we’re bludgeoned into submission.
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Bad Jews, or Jews behaving badly at American Stage in St. Petersburg?
A savage comedy of family and faith that’s both particular and universal.
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Censorship abounds in prison libraries, but here’s what some inmates read — and what they should.
Should prisoners be allowed to read?
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Plenty to chew on in Eating Animals
An eye-opening and stomach-turning case for less meat and more humanity.
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Tampa’s Heather Theatre paints a portrait of Rothko in Red
Dialogue and paint slung in a thought-provoking two-character bio-drama about artistic genius and ambition.
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Leave No Trace: True story of off-the-grid wilderness life
A moody, mysterious, mesmerizing study of growing up and growing away.
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BookStories looks at widely read and oft-banned Mark Twain and Huckleberry Finn
Huck and Jim and why their story matters even more today.
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Whitney: We will always love you
Story of a soaring, self-destructive artist.
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Memory and illusion in Jobsite’s Dancing at Lughnasa at Tampa’s Straz Center
A lyrical, lilting production that makes us laugh and cry.
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Incognito is cerebral brain teaser at Sarasota’s Urbanite Theatre
That’s a lot of snapping synapses, both onstage and in the audience.
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What books to pack on a trip to California’s national parks
BookStories: Booking your travel.
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Read my lips
Though loose lips might sink ships, red lips sell books in this week’s BookStories.
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Tom Wolfe, RIP, 1930-2018
Author, gadfly, wordsmith, dandy.
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BookStories: Largo dad is the naked chest on your romance novels
Meet Burton Hughes, ripped for our pleasure.
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Sunscreen Film Festival: Leaving My Father’s Faith, The Organizer and St Pete Unfiltered
Three documentaries that serve as the conscience of cinema.