City Paper grade: A Movies don’t have to be perfect to be special, and no recent title exemplifies this better than Rick Famuyiwa’s insightful, fast-paced fusion of two treasured American institutions: the high-school dramedy and the hood film. Powered by…

BRYN MAWR FILM INSTITUTE 824 W. Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr, 610-527-9898, brynmawrfilm.org Antony and Cleopatra (2014, Canada, 170 min.): Theatercast of Shakespeare’s tragedy, as performed on the Stratford Festival stage in Ontario. Thu., June 18, 7 p.m., $20, and Sun.,…

Maria Pouchnikova Big thanks to the Philly Free Library for letting us bring a bike in. In her diaries, Virginia Woolf writes about how her days are filled with reading, writing, entertaining guests and the occasional air raid. She frequently…

BRYN MAWR FILM INSTITUTE 824 W. Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr, 610-527-9898, brynmawrfilm.org Man and Superman (2015, U.K., 220 min.): Theatercast of George Bernard Shaw’s intricate swing at Don Juan, starring Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma. Thu., June 11, 7 p.m., $20,…

City Paper grade: B Michael Pollan is going to love Jurassic World. Brushing off the skeletal structure of the 1993 classic and slathering on some sexy pseudo-science, Colin Trevorrow has managed to build the ultimate anti-GMO blockbuster, directly correlating breakthroughs…

BRYN MAWR FILM INSTITUTE 824 W. Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr, 610-527-9898, brynmawrfilm.org Don Giovanni (2014, Austria, 184 min.): Theatercast of Mozart’s tragicomic telling of the Don Juan legend, as performed at the Salzburg Festival in Austria. Sun., June 7, 1 p.m.,…

Journalists at the city’s biggest news-gathering organization are a step closer to a strike today. Editorial union employees at The Inquirer, the Daily News and Philly.com voted overwhelmingly Wednesday night to authorize tthe Newspaper Guild to make preparations for a…

CIty Paper grade: B- The opening sequence of the Entourage movie goes down like a lazy joke about the opening sequence of the Entourage movie: E, Drama and Turtle skate across the Mediterranean in a rap video speedboat, intercepting Vince…

Because we can never get enough pizza or tacos, we’re happy to report on two solid new Rittenhouse openings. First up is the second outpost of Pizzeria Vetri (1615 Chancellor St.). The Chancellor Street space is larger than the Callowhill…