A couple years ago while at a public library, Dana Mengel came across a National Geographic magazine article about Amelia Earhart, specifically about an expedition that had possibly located her plane at the bottom of the ocean more than 80 years after the aviator disappeared during an around-the-world trek.
Revisit the 1988 “Beetlejuice” if you haven’t lately. It’s stranger, jankier, funnier and try-anything-er than you may recall. As the freelance bio-exorcist Betelgeuse, aka Beetlejuice, Michael Keaton delivered wondrous combinations of subtle vocal throwaways and outlandish visual invention as both participant and heckler in his own paranormal comedy. Director Tim Burton reportedly considered casting Sammy Davis Jr. in the role, among others. But it was kismet for Keaton and for Winona Ryder as the grieving, healing Lydia Deetz, as well as a crack supporting ensemble.
Puppetry Arts Institute presents "The Three Pigs of Piggyville" at 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 7. The Puppertry Arts Institute is at 11025 E. Winner Road in the Englewood Arts District in western Independence.
Considering that the screen industry still holds enough confusion for any 20 industries, the upcoming movie titles have some promise. The fall season is still the fall season, which means it’s the run-up or run-down to awards season late this year and early next.
Appropriately for its title, Zoë Kravitz’s debut feature “Blink Twice” unfolds in its main character’s eyes, which are by turns wondering, astonished and utterly terrified. Frida (Naomi Ackie) is a cater-waiter who’s thrilled to catch the eye of tech billionaire Slater King (Channing Tatum) at a gala — and even more thrilled when he casually invites her and her friend Jess (Alia Shawkat) to join him and a handful of others on his private island for an exotic vacation.
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After rear-ending a guy and his golf cart off a pier, a police detective in the Florida Keys named Yancy is demoted to restaurant inspector. A decent premise, even if I’m not sure how that works (aren’t these different departments?), but in Apple TV+’s “Bad Monkey,” starring Vince Vaughn, Yancy is pulled back into police work when some tourists out deep sea fishing reel in a disembodied human arm.
There are those who don’t like any of the “Alien” films after the first two, instructively different ones: Ridley Scott’s “Alien” (1979) and James Cameron’s “Aliens” (1986).
The sheer existence of this live-action adaptation of the classic children’s book “Harold and the Purple Crayon” inspires a number of questions on a purely basic level.
What: Blue Springs City Theatre presents the children’s play “Junie B. Jones is Not a Crook,” by Allison Gregory (2016), adapted from a book series by Barbara Park and directed by Lynnae Andersen.