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Changeling

Reviewed by Ken Hanke on
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The Story: Fact-based story of Christine Collins, who was victimized by the LAPD for refusing to accept that the boy they returned to her was her missing son. The Lowdown: A truly compelling story that suffers from shaky characterization and a story line that necessitates a slightly meandering narrative.

RocknRolla

Reviewed by Ken Hanke on
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The Story: Lower-echelon crooks go up against both higher-echelon old-school Brit gangsters and their new-school Russian counterparts. The Lowdown: A deliriously giddy wild ride of warped comedy and over-the-top violence, full of odd characters and delighful plot twists, plus it moves at lightning speed and with terrific style.

Broken psyches, broken lives

Posted on by Stephen Snow

“No,” the mother says emphatically. “He doesn’t hit me.” “How did you hurt your arm?” “I fell yesterday. It was wet after the rain.” She looks away. Good answer, except it didn’t rain yesterday. We sit in silence for a long minute; then she speaks. “My children,” she says, almost whispering. “I worry about my […]

Listen to your hopes, not your fears

Posted on by Claudine Cremer

What associations are more significant—Barack Obama’s shared anti-poverty-group board membership with William Ayers, charged with committing crimes when Obama was less than 10 years old, or John McCain’s 90 percent congressional voting support of George Bush? The countries of origin of Obama’s college roommates, or the current Republican-dominated legislative finding that Sarah Palin abused power […]

Judge deals out prison sentences in corruption scandal

Posted on by David Forbes and Jason Sandford

It worked like a charm. Video-poker-machine owners slipped the gambling devices across the South Carolina state line and into the backrooms of small restaurants and country convenience stores across Western North Carolina. The money rolled in—as much as $30,000 per machine per year—and players were lured by the prospect of winning cash, rather than the […]

Perk up that memory

Posted on by Allen Thomas

In your copy of the 1997 book Big Money Crime: Fraud and Politics in the Savings and Loan Crisis, please turn to page 108. Let us read together the second paragraph, which begins: “The costliest episode in the saga of Keating’s (CEO of Lincoln Savings & Loan) began in early 1997 … as Lincoln was […]

Asheville City Council

Posted on by Brian Postelle

Don’t panic—gas is on the way, officials say City supports CTS petition No agreement on graffiti cleanup strategy The proposed Haywood Park development was the main event in an already loaded agenda for the Asheville City Council’s Sept. 23 formal session, but questions and rumors about the area’s uncertain gas situation prompted Mayor Terry Bellamy […]

Making good noise

Posted on by Bill McGuire

I read with interest “Making Noise About a ‘Silent Crime’” by Rebecca Bowe [Sept. 3 Xpress]. Good story; good organization. Barb Anderson and all the staff at Our Voice do a great job, and we’re fortunate to have them. And, to have activists like my friend Lindsey Simerly. — Bill McGuire Child Abuse Prevention Services, […]

Cranky Hanke’s Screening Room: Evil geniuses and criminal mastermind­s

Posted on by Ken Hanke

The movies used to thrive on Evil Geniuses and Criminal Masterminds, but today the only remaining vestiges are either rather drab fellows, or they’re holdovers from comic books and were created years ago. No one seems to be coming up with new ones. So let’s pause for a bit and take a look at some of the older panache-obsessed villains.