For a short time in late 2004, the story was catnip to Kentucky media. Three students — and one college dropout — from Lexington’s Transylvania University attempted a rare-book heist that, to put it mildly, did not go as planned. To say much more about the results would do a disservice to the nervy suspense of Bart Layton’s American Animals, which dramatizes the young men’s … [Read more...]
‘Captain Fantastic’: Off the grid, defying expectations
To say that Captain Fantastic is one of the finest counterculture road movies since Easy Rider is both accurate and absurd. It’s absurd because instead of two bikers searching for meaning and literally burning out in the American heartland in the turbulent ’60s, Captain Fantastic is about a father traveling with his six children in a Winnebago in Obama’s America. … [Read more...]