Review

Film Review: “La Chimera” — A Celebration of Etruscan Grit and Glory

April 12, 2024
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If “La Chimera” is a bit harder to penetrate than the director-writer’s previous works, it boasts some captivating passages and raises pertinent questions about art, history, globalism, and national identity.

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WATCH CLOSELY: “Ripley” — A Man in Shadows and Light

April 12, 2024
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“Ripley” is one of the most entertaining and finely-wrought thriller series to come from Netflix in years.

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Book Review: “Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs”

April 12, 2024
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This book is a fiery manifesto that charges that copyright law today is an outrageously unjust scheme that does nothing for 99 percent of authors, other creative people, and their fans, while it locks up a commodity that fills the coffers of large corporations.

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Jazz Album Review: Noah Haidu’s “Standards II” — A Trio of Masters

April 12, 2024
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Pianist Noah Haidu’s impeccably performed and recorded “Standards II” is a winner.

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Television Review: “Heartbreak High,” Season Two — A Distinct Letdown

April 12, 2024
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The Aussie teen soap falls victim to the dreaded sophomore slump.

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Film Review: “The Beast” Is a Bungle

April 11, 2024
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Who would predict that this perfectly calibrated tale would be yanked out of its early 20th century setting and become dystopian science-fiction?

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Film Review: “Civil War” Crimes — A Boutique Catastrophe

April 10, 2024
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In this dreamworld, the politics don’t matter. It’s the artfully gruesome spectacle that counts — that and the hackneyed Hollywood storyline about the hardened veteran mentoring the neophyte through an initiation into the harsh realities of the profession.

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Theater Review: “The Drowsy Chaperone” — A Refreshing Musical Tonic

April 10, 2024
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The Lyric Stage Company production almost meets the challenges posed by this delightfully inane musical farce.

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Author Interview: Richard L. Hasen on “The Real Right to Vote”

April 10, 2024
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“We have much less protection over our right to vote than most people think.”

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Book Review: “Motherlove” — The Desperations of Incarceration

April 9, 2024
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Jean Trounstine’s experience enables her to present convincingly the desperate circumstances of people whose family members have been arrested and incarcerated, sometimes legitimately, often not.

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