This Tuesday, May 29th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of I, Tonya @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. Craig Gillespie directs the two-hour biographical comedy-drama about competitive skater Tonya Harding as she rises in the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future is thrown into doubt…
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City, Film
Film: Tuesday, May 22nd, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park, The Post
by JOHN ADAMS •
This Tuesday, May 22nd at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of The Post @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. Steven Spielberg directs the one-hour, fifty-six minute historical drama about a “cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country’s first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an…
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Film: Tuesday, May 8th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park, Lady Bird
by JOHN ADAMS •
This Tuesday, May 8th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of Lady Bird @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. Greta Gerwig directs (and wrote) the one-hour, thirty-four minute comedy-drama about an artistically inclined seventeen-year-old girl coming of age in 2002 in Sacramento, California. The cast features Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, and Tracy…
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Film: Tuesday, April 24th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park, The Greatest Showman
by JOHN ADAMS •
This Tuesday, April 24th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of The Greatest Showman @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. Michael Gracey directs the one-hour, forty-five minute film that “celebrates the birth of show business, and tells of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became…
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Film: Tuesday, April 10th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park, The Shape of Water
by JOHN ADAMS •
( This Tuesday, April 10th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of The Shape of Water @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. Guillermo del Toro directs the two-hour, three-minute film, “an otherworldly fable set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962. In the hidden high-security government laboratory…
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Film: Tuesday, March 27th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park, The Darkest Hour
by JOHN ADAMS •
This Tuesday, March 27th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of The Darkest Hour @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. Joe Wright directs the two-hour, five-minute film. The Darkest Hour recounts the early days of World War II, as the fate of Western Europe hangs on the newly-appointed British Prime Minister Winston…
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Film: Tuesday, March 13th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
by JOHN ADAMS •
This Tuesday, March 13th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. Martin McDonagh directs the one-hour, fifty-five minute film. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a crime drama about a mother who personally challenges the local authorities to solve her…
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Film: Tuesday, February 27th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park, The Florida Project
by JOHN ADAMS •
This Tuesday, February 27th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of The Florida Project @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. Sean Baker directs the one-hour, fifty-one minute film. The Florida Project is a drama “set over one summer, [as] the film follows precocious six-year-old Moonee as she courts mischief and…
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Film: Tuesday, February 13th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park, The Big Sick
by JOHN ADAMS •
This Tuesday, February 13th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of The Big Sick @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. Michael Showalter directs the two-hour film. The Big Sick recounts how “Pakistani-born stand-up comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner fall in love but struggle as their cultures clash.…
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Film: Tuesday, January 30th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park, Battle of the Sexes
by JOHN ADAMS •
This Tuesday, January 30th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of Battle of the Sexes @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. Simon Beaufoy directs the two-hour, one-minute film. Battle of the Sexes is a historical comedy-drama: “The true story of the 1973 tennis match between women’s world champion Billie Jean…
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Film: Tuesday, January 23rd, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park, Fort McCoy
by JOHN ADAMS •
This Tuesday, January 23rd at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of Fort McCoy @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. Kate Connor and Michael Worth co-direct the one hour, forty-minute film. Fort McCoy is a drama based on the true story of the Stirn family, who lived next to Fort McCoy…
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Film: Tuesday, January 9th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park: Dunkirk
by JOHN ADAMS •
This Tuesday, January 9th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of Dunkirk @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. Christopher Nolan directs the one hour, forty-six minute film. Dunkirk recounts ‘the dramatic and true evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, England and France, who were cutoff and surrounded by the German Army,…
Alt-Right, Film, Politics
Kylo Ren as an Alt-Right Villain?
by JOHN ADAMS •
Marykate Jasper argues Why Kylo Ren Is the Perfect Villain for the Age of the Alt-Right (some movie spoilers in her observations): Kylo is incredibly powerful, but he is also incredibly childish. When the Rebels escape him in The Force Awakens, he throws a ludicrous temper tantrum with his lightsaber. In The Last Jedi, Luke goads him by appearing…
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Film: Tuesday, December 26th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park: Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2
by JOHN ADAMS •
This Tuesday, December 26th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. James Gunn directs the two hour, sixteen minute film. The Guardians must fight to keep their newfound family together as they unravel the mystery of Peter Quill’s true…
