Betsy Sherman

Film Review: “Demon” — A Beautifully Creepy Dybbuk Yarn

September 15, 2016
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Demon is a powerful movie that, once seen, can’t be easily shaken off.

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Arts Commentary: Lenny Bruce — On the 50th Anniversary of his Death

August 3, 2016
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What made the authorities especially eager to tape Lenny Bruce’s mouth shut was his vigorous social and religious satire.

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Book Review: “Digging Up Mother” — Bizarro Family Values

June 15, 2016
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Digging Up Mother: A Love Story is Doug Stanhope’s disarmingly funny, unexpectedly sweet memoir.

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Film Review: “Popstar” — A Chart-busting Comedy

June 4, 2016
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Popstar’s silliness is monumental, and wonderful.

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Film Review: “A Bigger Splash” — Romance, Darkly Comic

May 15, 2016
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A Bigger Splash has a pleasing richness wherein the sensual elements bind the individual characters to each other, and to nature.

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Film Preview: Silent Film Comedian Raymond Griffith — Sophisticated Slapstick

May 12, 2016
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A rare opportunity to see — on the big screen — a film starring Boston-born silent comedian Raymond Griffith, a master of the debonair pratfall.

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Film Review: At the IFFBoston — “Boone”

April 30, 2016
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One of the most gorgeous films in recent memory, Boone is sure to give you an appreciation of the enormous work done on Boone Farm.

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Film Review: “Kate Plays Christine”

April 29, 2016
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Actress Kate Lyn Sheil travels to Sarasota to star in a biopic where she will be filmed re-enacting TV broadcaster Christine Chubbuck’s suicide.

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Film Review: At the IFFBoston — “Best and Most Beautiful Things”

April 29, 2016
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Garrett Zevgetis’s multi-dimensional documentary about the struggles of Michelle Smith, legally blind and diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome, is hardly predictable.

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Film Preview: Death and Desire at the Circus — “Varieté” at the Coolidge Corner Theatre

April 26, 2016
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Varieté will be the tenth score composed by a Sheldon Mirowitz class and played by the Berklee Silent Film Orchestra.

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