MUSIC
9.24
Big D and the Kids Table / Tip the Van
@ Webster Theatre
Hartford CT
$13 / 7pm
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@Pearl Street
Northampton, MA
$18 / 9pm
9.25
As I Lay Dying / Unearth
@ Webster Theatre
Hartford, CT
$22 / 7pm
9.27
Dark Star Orchestra
@ Toad’s Place
New Haven, CT
$25 / 9pm
9.28
Ra Ra Riot
@ Toad’s Place
New Haven, CT
$18 / 9pm
The Toasters
@ Cafe 9
New Haven, CT
$10 / 9pm
9.29
Built to Spill
@ Pearl Street
Northampton, MA
$25 / 830pm
9.30
Mushroomhead
@ Toad’s Place
New Haven, CT
$18 / 730pm
10.1
Marc Cohn
@ Infinity Music Hall & Bistro
Norfolk, CT
$50, 75 / 8pm
MOVIES
9.24
Life During Wartime
@ Real Art Ways
Hartford, CT
$6.25 (with student ID) / 7pm
Directed by Todd Solondz, this ensemble film tells the tale of a large dysfunctional family. Joy (Shirley Henderson) continues to have problems with her husband, Allen (Michael Kenneth Williams), and looks to her family for advice. A dead former boyfriend (Paul Reubens) continues to try to win her heart from the great beyond. Joy’s sister, Trish (Allison Janney), meets a retiree whom she hopes will normalize her chaotic life. A third sister, screenwriter Helen (Ally Sheedy), is full of bitterness toward both her family and her career. Their mother, Mona (Renée Taylor), wants absolutely nothing to do with men. And, ex-con Bill (Ciarán Hinds), Trish’s former husband, wants to reconcile with their son. Life During Wartime is a pseudo-sequel to Solondz’s Happiness with different actors playing the same characters from that earlier film – (Perry Selbert, Allmovie)
9.25
The Girl Who Played With Fire
@ Trinity College
Hartford, CT
$10 / 730pm
Swedish mystery writer/journalist Stieg Larsson’s exciting contribution to crime fighting icons from Sherlock Holmes to Batman. Under five feet tall, skinny and young, Salandar is a computer hacker extraordinaire with a photographic memory and an anti-social chip on her (tattooed) shoulder. Based on the second book of Larsson’s trilogy, it shows two side-by-side investigations. Salandar is searching for the truth about her horrific childhood, and journalist Michael Blomqvist (played by Michael Nyqvist, “Scandanavia’s George Clooney,” trying to uncover a sex-trafficking business. “Two-thirds of the way through, The Millennium Trilogy is looking like the North American cinematic event of 2010.” James Bernadelli, Reelviews.net [Note to audience: While Alfredson and many European directors avoid submitting to the requirements of the U. S. ratings system, the violence in this thriller would rate an R.] 129 min
9.26
Please Give
@ Trinity College
Hartford, CT
$8 / 730pm
One of Columbia Film School’s biggest success stories (along with The Hurt Locker’s Kathryn Bigelow), writer/director Nicole Holofcener has kept true to her inner New York indie vibe. The fourth film to star her cinematic alter ego Catherine Keener (Walking and Talking, Friends With Money and Lovely & Amazing) is a fresh, funny and complex story set in Greenwich Village. This being Manhattan, the drama involves real estate: Keener, her husband and her feisty teenage daughter own the adjoining apartment of an elderly woman – but they won’t be able to move in until she dies. Keener hits just the right note as a finely intelligent woman who both indulges her own avarice, and has enough moral sense to be bedeviled by guilt. “Holofcener has accrued a rabid, loyal following for her singular brand of observant wit and aching tenderness…Welcome to the club!” – Ann Hornaday, Washington Post.
9.26
Grown Ups
@ Torp Theatre (CAN Movie Series)
New Britain, CT
FREE / 7pm
After their high school basketball coach passes away, five good friends and former teammates reunite for a Fourth of July holiday weekend. – IMDb
