Arts and Entertainment

Independent cinema opens in downtown Phoenix

Claiming to be the first independent cinema in Phoenix since 1981, FilmBar will open on Thursday after a year of renovation that turned a warehouse into a cozy theater seating around 70.

Slide show: First Fridays Feb. 4

Shots of First Fridays on Feb. 4.

Movie Review: The King’s Speech

Make no mistake, “The King’s Speech" is by all accounts a good film, but it never truly exhibits the “X” factor that makes some films great.

Movie Review: True Grit

“True Grit” is a film that you’ll want to share with your children generations from now to show them how they used to make movies way back when.

Movie Review: Tron Legacy

Much like last year’s “Avatar,” “Tron” comes as a visual effects-laden gamble whose end goal isn’t so much to provide a story as it is to provide an experience and access to a new world.

Concert series brings local artists to Arizona Center

Artists participating in Live Music Under the Stars perform from 5 to 8 p.m. under the grand staircase for people shopping, dining or passing through the Arizona Center near Fillmore and Third streets.

Movie Review: Love and Other Drugs

While the genre of romantic comedies isn’t high art once in a while you’ll get something really worthwhile. “Love and Other Drugs” isn’t that movie.

Turn on. Tune in. Rock out. — Teneia Sanders

Phoenix singer/songwriter Teneia Sanders was influenced by old-school Motown music on her new album, Soulcatcher.

Movie Review: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I

Harry, Ron and Hermione may be older, but the adventures are really the same in the first installment of J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows."

Movie Review: 127 Hours

"127 Hours" is not just a story about Man vs. Nature. It's a story of Man vs. Self.