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• Cranky Hanke's Weekly Reeler May 22-28: Fast and Epic Hangover

  

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  Ken Hanke | 18 hours ago

  You know it's a pretty dire week when the thing I'm most looking forward to is Fast & Furious 6. (And you can imagine how much it pains me to type those words.) There's not even a single new art title to brighten the weekend (no, last Friday's ActionFest offering, Java Heat, going to a full run doesn't count) — merely three mainstream movies I find it hard to get jazzed about. These are the conditions that prevail.

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• Twin Rivers Media Festival opens May 17

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  Webmaster | 8 days ago

  Marking the 20th annual event, this year's Twin Rivers Media Festival will run Friday, May 17 through Sunday, May 19, with a few extras.

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• Cranky Hanke's Weekly Reeler May 15-21: Gimme No Star Trek Loot

  

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  Ken Hanke | 8 days ago

  This, of course, is Star Trek Into Darkness week, which, I confess, doesn't thrill me as much as Gatsby week, but I'm not against it. We also have two art/indie titles braving the blockbuster storm -- and both are really worthwhile.

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• Cranky Hanke's Weekly Reeler May 8-14: Gatsby Renoir Lore Disconnect

  

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  Ken Hanke | 15 days ago

  Finally — it's the weekend we get Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby, a movie bound to polarize just about everyone, and a movie fairly certain to be mauled by a lot of critics, which perhaps makes it that much more interesting. At the same time, we get three new art titles and a kind of stealth attack from Tyler Perry.

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• Cranky Hanke's Weekly Reeler May 1-7: Beyond Iron Man 237

  

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  Ken Hanke | 22 days ago

  It's the beginning of summer — or so the movies insist — and first out of the gate in the headlong rush for your moviegoing bucks is Iron Man 3. And, of course, no mainstream release is about to go up against it. A couple of foolhardy art/indie titles are not so reticent.

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• Cranky Hanke's Weekly Reeler April 24-30: The Big Pain and Mud Company

  

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  Ken Hanke | 29 days ago

  It's a two and two week again -- two art titles vs. two mainstream titles -- though you may notice that the distributors are doing their darndest to convince people that one of those art titles, Mud, has crossover potential. In fact, it probably does -- depending on whether or not they over-saturate the market by putting it on too many screens. We shall see.

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• ActionFest returns to Asheville with Homeward Bound benefit

  

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  Ken Hanke | 04/16/2013

  Beginning April 19, ActionFest will once again bring the best in world action cinema to Asheville — this time with a monthly ActionFest Film Series, the first of which will benefit Homeward Bound.

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• Cranky Hanke's Weekly Reeler April 17-23: Like Ginger & Oblivion

  

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  Ken Hanke | 04/16/2013

  The excitement of last week -- the opening of Trance and Beyond the Pines -- gives way to slighter art house pleasures this week, but pleasures all the same. There are two of those, but only one mainstream title -- and no matter how it fares it absolutely has to be better than Scary Movie 5. An evening with a door-to-door God salesman or someone making an Amway pitch is better than Scary Movie 5.

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• Cranky Hanke's Weekly Reeler April 10-16: The Place Beyond the Scary Trance

  

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  Ken Hanke | 04/09/2013

  It is, I think, safe to conclude that the art films have it this week. We have two of those (it was three, but the third got wisely moved to next week) and two mainstream titles. The art titles are very choice indeed. The others — one I'm skeptical of, the other I'm confident will be just plain ghastly.

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• Cranky Hanke's Weekly Reeler April 3-9: West of Evil Dead Park

  

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  Ken Hanke | 04/02/2013

  This week may be on the slack side — in fact, it is on the slack side — but it cannot possibly be as bad as last week. Last week's three mainstream pictures marked a trilogy of tripe the likes of which I don't need to see again any time soon (as in this century). I don't even like thinking about last weekend, so let's get on with this one.

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