A young Kurt Cobain in Montage of Heck BRYN MAWR FILM INSTITUTE 824 W. Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr, 610-527-9898, brynmawrfilm.org Much Ado About Nothing (2015, U.K., 140 min.): Theatercast of Shakespeare’s comedy this time, set at a holiday party in…
City Paper grade: B- For all their diverse origins Captain America is from the ’40s, Black Widow is from Russia, Thor is from Norse space, etc. it’s uncanny that every single one of the Avengers has Joss Whedon’s…
City Paper grade: B+ Alan Turing: So hot right now. A couple months after Benedict Cumberbatch canonized the influential British thinker in The Imitation Game, Turings test to gauge the power of artificial intelligence becomes the centerpiece an imperfect but…
City Paper grade: C If a freak hydro-electrical phenomenon shocked your body into a state of agelessness, what would you do? Travel the world? Master astrophysics? Work in a library while wearing a series of smart cowlneck sweaters? The third…
On March 18, candidates for elected offices filed into a City Hall courtroom for the traditional pulling of ballot positions written on glorified ping pong balls from an old Horn & Hardart coffee can. Despite being more political…
Ellen Ridyard Sign on a City Paper box at 11th and Wharton streets Umm, we don’t know what this is all about, but this sign promising, uh, some nasty extra fixings on a cheesesteak was spotted yesterday on a City…
BRYN MAWR FILM INSTITUTE 824 W. Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr, 610-527-9898, brynmawrfilm.org Space Jam (1996, U.S., 88 min.): It’s yo chance, do yo dance, at the Space Jam. Sat., April 25, 11 a.m., $5. Talk Cinema A cerebral film series curated by…
Charles Mostoller Sudhir Kumar, left, and S. Blair Hedges Trace the evolution of 50,000 species over four billion years and you get the TimeTree of Life. This computational informatic, assembled by Temple University professors using data from more than 2,000…
Greatful Dead Buskin’ Blues The Origins of Wit and Humor The 2015 Philadelphia Independent Film Festival runs from April 17 to 25. Schedule, theater and ticket information is available at philadelphiaindependentfilmfestival.com. Greatful Dead City Paper grade: B+ Presented in partnership with…
The Squid and the Whale Bryn Mawr Film Institute I 24 W. Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr, 610-527-9898, brynmawrfilm.org King Lear (2014, Canada, 173 min.): Theatercast of Shakespeare’s Empire-inspiring tragedy, with Colm Feore in the title role. Filmed on the stage of the Stratford Festival…
