They say that one of the best ways to combat stage fright is to imagine the entire audience naked, so it’s no surprise that **“Birdman”** — a waking nightmare about a Hollywood has-been who used to play a Batman-like superhero onscreen — features a similar scene, only one where the ...

The ongoing Film Church series at [Liberty Hall][1] rolls on this month with three screenings on Sunday of **Mel Brooks**’ comedy classic **“Young Frankenstein,”** a movie that brings a personal Halloween tradition for Maggie Allen, cinema and video store manager, into the public, albeit ...

I knew this movie wouldn’t go away. On its opening weekend, I issued my [spoiler-free review][1] of director **David Fincher’s “Gone Girl,”** based on the novel by **Gillian Flynn.** I knew as soon as I saw the film that it would be the movie everyone *had* to see, and three weeks ...

Lawrence musician Jeremy Sidener has always been interested in fringe culture, which in the pre-Internet days, was wherever one could find it. Growing up in Olathe the 1980s, he would make regular road trips to the now-iconic Lawrence punk-rock shack The Outhouse. When he got to stay up ...

Frank, the fringe musician who never takes off his giant papier-mache head (played by **Michael Fassbender**), isn’t going to kowtow to the rules, and neither does **“Frank”** the movie, opening Friday at [Liberty Hall][1]. Directed by **Lenny Abrahamson** and written by **Jon Ronson** ...

Buried somewhere beneath the button-pushing gender politics and all-too-convenient plot twists in **“Gone Girl,”** there are some mildly interesting points being made about modern marriage. But after two and a half hours of soapy ridiculousness that wouldn’t be out of place on “The Bold ...