Cube Critics: 'Carrie'; 'The Trials of Muhammed Ali'
by Euan Kerr
October 18, 2013
MPR News Arts Reporter and Cube Critic Euan Kerr talks to Steve Seel and Jill Riley about the new re-imagining of Stephen King's classic horror tale about Carrie White (Chloë Grace Moretz), a shy girl outcast by her peers who unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom.
The film, directed by Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don't Cry), also stars Julianne Moore as the mother of the eponymous Carrie. Jill Riley and Euan Kerr debate the merits of this remake of its 1976 predecessor.
Carrie is rated R for bloody violence, disturbing images, language and some sexual content. It's screening in very wide release, playing atmovie theaters throughout the region.
Meanwhile, a new documentary, The Trials of Muhammad Ali, opens tonight at the Lagoon Cinema in Minneapolis. Director Bill Seigel will introduce tonight's screening.
The film follows the story of what happened to Cassius Clay as he became Muhammed Ali and a world-champion boxer, and continues to follow his trajectory through his objection to the war in Vietnam and his evolution into an ambassador for peace.
MPR's Movie Maven, Stephanie Curtis, joins The Current's Morning Show to talk about films every Friday at 8:30 a.m.