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Thursday, November 14, 2019

Colson Whitehead: Shredder of Illusions

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Author Colson Whitehead. (Photo: Chris Close) Most of us do not harbour a benign view of slavery, namely the belief that the owne...
Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Light and Sound: Image Makers and The Magic Flute

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William H. Daniels, with Greta Garbo, on the set of Romance (1930). The best time I’ve had at the movies so far this year was watchi...
Friday, November 8, 2019

The Banality of Evil: Notes on an Appearance

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Bingham Bryant in Notes on an Appearance (2018). Notes on an Appearance (2018), writer-director-editor Ricky D'Ambrose...
Tuesday, November 5, 2019

The King: Get Me Rewrite!

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Timothée Chalamet in The King (2019). This review contains spoilers.   In a capsule review of a 1932 straight-dramatic movie ...
Friday, November 1, 2019

Living in the Future: Aaron Cohen's Move On Up

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The Impressions in 1970: Curtis Mayfield, Fred Cash and Sam Gooden (Phoyo: Giles Petard) “They were living in the future, those ar...
Wednesday, October 30, 2019

An Appreciation of Philip Kerr's Final Novel Metropolis

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Metropolis by Otto DIx (1927-1928). When the Scottish-born author, Philip Kerr, died of cancer last year at the age of 62, he left b...
Monday, October 28, 2019

Found and Lost: Fiddler on the Roof, Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles and The Late Show

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A scene from Fiddler on the Roof at Manhattan's Stage 42. (Photo: Matthew Murphy) Since Fiddler on the Roof  swept New York five ...
Friday, October 25, 2019

Civilization and Its Discontents: Synonyms (Synonymes, 2019)

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Quentin Dolmaire and Tom Mercier in Synonyms ( Synonymes , 2019). In our era of resurging fascism, Israeli writer-director Nadav...
Monday, October 21, 2019

The Thanksgiving Play: Satirical Blur

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Jesse Hinson and Amanda Collins in The Thanksgiving Play at Boston's Lyric Stage. (Photo: Glen Perry) The idea behind Larissa Fa...
Friday, October 18, 2019

Fleetwood Mac’s Frozen Love: Ryan Reed’s Chronicle

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Fleetwood Mac (from left, Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie, Mick Fleetwood, and John McVie, pose with their awards at t...
Wednesday, October 16, 2019

When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? Cemetery of Splendour (Rak Ti Khon Kaen / รักที่ขอนแก่น, 2015)

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A scene from Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cemetery of Splendour ( Rak Ti Khon Kaen / รักที่ขอนแก่น, 2015) Last night, my slee...
Monday, October 14, 2019

Rosmersholm: The Pitfalls of Idealism

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Hayley Atwell and company in Rosmersholm . (Photo: Johan Persson) The idealists in Ibsen’s plays invariably end badly – sometimes by ...
Friday, October 11, 2019

The Cult of Rock and Roll: Six Degrees of Art, Poetry and Music

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William S. Burroughs (right) with Jimmy Page, guitarist/composer of Led Zeppelin. A writer with the incredibly apt but real name ...
Monday, October 7, 2019

Judy: Finale

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Renée Zellweger and Finn Wittrock in Judy . Renée Zellweger gives a fierce, fearless performance as Judy Garland in the new film...
Friday, October 4, 2019

A Living Cinematic Fossil: Angel Has Fallen (2019)

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Gerard Butler in Angel Has Fallen (2019) You don't need me to tell you that Angel Has Fallen (2019), directed by Ric Roman ...
Monday, September 30, 2019

Struggles and Thrills: What the Jews Believe and Passengers

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Benim Foster and Logan Weibrecht in What the Jews Believe . (Photo: Emma K. Rothenberg-Ware) Mark Harelik’s ambitious new play, What ...
Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Redeeming the Past in Alexi Zentner's Copperhead and Eli Saslow's Rising Out of Hatred

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Author Alexi Zenter. (Photo: Laurie Willick, Viking) Alexi Zentner's Copperhead , spins several threads that eventually knit ...
Wednesday, September 18, 2019

The Flaming Fist of Christ Compels You!: The Divine Fury (Saja / 사자, 2019)

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Park Seo-joon in Saja (2019). What if the titular protagonist of Constantine (2005) (Keanu Reeves) was a mixed-martial arts figh...
Monday, September 16, 2019

Song and Dance, Part IV: King of Jazz and Miscast

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A scene from King of Jazz (1930). In their efforts to find ways to showcase talkie performers, in the early days of sound film m...
Thursday, September 12, 2019

A Flaccid Fairy Tale: Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

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Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio in Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood . The following contains spoilers.   Quentin Tarantino’s ninth ...