When The Latenight Callers were formed in 2008, Lawrence drummer/keyboardist Nick Combs didn’t know that much about film noir. The band calls its style “noir-a-go-go,” and its music sounds like something you might hear in a smoky Prohibition-era jazz club of the future. It’s three ...

http://www.lawrence.com/photos/2015/sep/10/296474/ This autumn is littered with the usual mix of prestige pictures, Oscar hopefuls and indie dramas, all vying for attention in the season of “serious” movies. Amidst the original entities, some familiar — and already well-publicized ...

“She opens her mouth to speak and/ What comes out's a mystery/ Thought about, not understood/ She's achin' to be.” The Replacements song [“Achin' to Be”][1] should be the theme song of **Noah Baumbach**’s tough and funny new movie **“Mistress America,”** now showing at ...

http://www.lawrence.com/photos/2015/aug/20/295634/ A companion piece to the best documentary of the last 10 years is playing at the [Alamo Drafthouse][1] in Kansas City, and it sheds more disturbing light on the darkest depths of men’s souls, but for the first time offers a sort of ...

http://www.lawrence.com/photos/2015/aug/13/295365/ The spy thriller **“The Man From U.N.C.L.E.”** has a couple of underdog qualities that had me rooting for it from the get-go. First, I love the idea that rather then merely stealing the name of the mid-'60s TV show and updating it to ...

http://www.lawrence.com/users/photos/2015/aug/05/295061/ Three Oklahoma filmmakers are going on a road trip throughout the Midwest to screen their newest projects, and they are making a stop at the Lawrence Arts Center. The Free State Fest Film Society presents an encore performance of ...