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‘Inside Out 2’ delves into more emotions

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In 2015, Pixar, the studio that makes us feel all of our feelings, made a  movie about feelings that made us think about our emotions in a new way,  “Inside Out.” Now, almost 20 years later, we are invited back inside Riley’s mind to take a peek as she grows into a teenager in Kelsey Mann’s “Inside Out 2.”    Riley (Kensington Tallman) has turned 13. She is a good kid who loves playing hockey and hanging out with her friends Grace (Grace Lu) and Bree (Sumayyah Muriddin-Green). But when they go to hockey camp with the ultra-cool Valentina (Lilimar), new ...

A round-up of favorites from the Tribeca Film Festival

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The Tribeca Film Festival was founded in 2002 to celebrate cinema following the attacks on the World Trade Center. This year, 103 feature-length films and numerous short films were shown at Tribeca. Thanks to a virtual option, I was able to cover the festival remotely. Here are a few of my favorite watches from the festival.  Documentary features   “Hacking Hate,” by filmmaker Simon Klose, follows Swedish journalist My Vingren as she goes undercover to research far-right extremism online. Her work leads her to Anika Collier Navaroli, the former Twitter employee who ...

2024 Gritty Chix Mud Run will benefit New River Conservancy

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OAK HILL — The 10th Gritty Chix Mud Run will be held Saturday at ACE Adventure Resort. Gritty Chix is a fun run where participants sprint, walk, skip or dance through an obstacle course full of walls, tubes, and mud pits. Each year part of the registration price is donated to a community cause, and this year’s run will benefit the New River Conservancy.  More than 700 people from West Virginia and surrounding states will tackle the Moxie Mile or the 5K Tenacious Trail. The two courses have varying degrees of difficulty, but all challenges are manageable or can be ...

‘Brats’ doc offers look at lives of 80s superstars

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Growing up, my parents were strict about what movies my sisters and I were allowed to watch, so the only John Hughes film I had seen for a long time was a television edit of “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” I wasn’t familiar with the Brat Pack until later when I was able to watch films like “St. Elmo’s Fire,” “The Breakfast Club,” and “Sixteen Candles.” While these weren’t formative films during my youth, I do have an affinity for these actors of my generation who were part of a movement toward making and marketing films for a young audience. So one of my most ...

Kingdom Church offers grief conference June 15

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Ever experienced the loss of one of your children and found it impossible to move forward?  The Source Foundation is holding the Ember Grief Conference at Kingdom EMC Church to help those suffering the loss of a child in their lives. The event is on June 15 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.  Rev. Kevin Cain, founder of the Source Foundation and pastor at Kingdom EMC Church, will host the Ember Grief Conference. He has had a long history of helping people in the process of grieving, having written a book on losing loved ones called “As She is Dying”. He has also officiated ...