As Comcast executives hosted a reception last night for the world’s media who have come to Philly for the pope’s visit, striking camermen and technicians from Philly’s NBC Channel 10 showed up outside the Comcast Center with leaflets and…

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Strikers outside of Channel10 this afternoon.      Two days before Pope Francis’ visit to Philly, news photographers and technicians at NBC Channel 10 went on strike Thursday afternoon in a contract dispute, according to a source close to the…

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Aside from the obvious pleasure of listening to English people say “maths” for two hours, Morgan Matthews’ A Brilliant Young Mind has a number of things going for it. Based on the director’s own 2007 documentary, about gifted children competing…

The Third Man, screening Sept. 24 at the County Theater BRYN MAWR FILM INSTITUTE 824 W. Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr, 610-527-9898, brynmawrfilm.org The Beaux’ Stratagem (2015, U.K., 160 min.): A theatercast from London’s National Theatre — two big-city swindlers, intent…

A Cold War chess thriller — yes, little black and white knights and rooks and bishops do possess some capacity to thrill — Edward Zwick’s Pawn Sacrifice has an incredible sense of geographic style, jetting from chilly gray New York…

Jenni Betz Look who has been added to the wall at Dirty Frank’s bar. As a major landowner in this impoverished city, the best thing you can do for Phil­a­del­phia is to deed church properties to nonprofits and small businesses…

Stonewall Roland Emmerich’s account of the 1969 Stonewall riots doesn’t honor LGBT progress in America so much as it airbrushes its origins. Ever since the trailer dropped, the openly gay director has been chastised for his decision to chronicle the protests…