Results tagged “wimwenders”

Phillyist notes a fistfight between local pols that leaves one man down for the count. Jehovah's Witnesses get a Philly contributor out of bed, things get a little geeky with a film festival and geeky gets taken to a whole new galaxy when they talk with the Dragon Queen of the Dark Kingdom.

As a child, this SFist spent a portion of nearly every summer in our mother's hometown, Rock Springs, Wyoming. Perhaps because of this involuntary desert quality time, we've never really "gotten" Westerns -- to us, they seemed to have nothing in common with the quirky, arid, and occasionally desparing West we knew firsthand. However, , director Wim Wenders' newest film (which opens today at the Embarcadero), freakin' NAILS the West, or at least our West.