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Good Day Baltimore: Get your spray-paint cans ready
- Spray paint explodes onto the local art scene with “No Surface Left Untouched,” an exhibit centered on graffiti art - and how it communicates messages about cultures and communities. Artists featured include Arek, Con, Ride, Vose, Mybad, Stab, StabRock, Sky and Szechuan. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Free. Through Aug. 8. CCBC Catonsvile, Building Q, 800 South Rolling Road, Baltimore. 410-455-4246.
Digital Breakdown: This week, ‘Bug’ off
- The problem with “Bug” is that you figure out the punch line about 10 minutes into the film. Ashley Judd stars as a troubled hillbilly with a dead-end job and deadbeat ex-husband. She soon develops a weird romance with Peter (Michael Shannon), a mysterious stranger whose elevator obviously doesn’t go to the floor. When Peter wakes up getting bitten by invisible bugs, Judd’s character doesn’t question it, but accepts it, and soon enough she gets “bitten” by the bugs as well. Much self-mutation ensues. Extras include audio commentary from the director and one making-of featurette; otherwise, there isn’t much here.
- The problem with “Bug” is that you figure out the punch line about 10 minutes into the film. Ashley Judd stars as a troubled hillbilly with a dead-end job and deadbeat ex-husband. She soon develops a weird romance with Peter (Michael Shannon), a mysterious stranger whose elevator obviously doesn’t go to the floor. When Peter wakes up getting bitten by invisible bugs, Judd’s character doesn’t question it, but accepts it, and soon enough she gets “bitten” by the bugs as well. Much self-mutation ensues. Extras include audio commentary from the director and one making-of featurette; otherwise, there isn’t much here.
Review: 'Bug' is creepy and crawly
- Two lonely hearts crescendo into insect-obsessed, codependent madness in “Bug,” a psycho-romantic horror thriller directed by 1970s heavyweight William Friedkin. Don’t expect an effects-packed, extravagant chiller — never mind Friedkin’s “Exorcist” credentials. The film is a chamber-scale, material-worldly brand of creeper and — until it goes ludicrous — an inspired, crawly look at human need.
- Two lonely hearts crescendo into insect-obsessed, codependent madness in “Bug,” a psycho-romantic horror thriller directed by 1970s heavyweight William Friedkin. Don’t expect an effects-packed, extravagant chiller — never mind Friedkin’s “Exorcist” credentials. The film is a chamber-scale, material-worldly brand of creeper and — until it goes ludicrous — an inspired, crawly look at human need.
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