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Tim Jackson

Film Review: “The Counselor” — Filled with Dark and Troubling Poetry

Cormac McCarthy’s rambling but brilliant screenplay is given vigorous direction by Ridley Scott, whose elegant visual style captures the tense downward spiral of the film’s doomed characters.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Cormac McCarthy, Ridley Scott, The Counselor

Movie Review: “12 Years a Slave” — The First Masterpiece of the New Black Cinema?

With 12 YEARS A SLAVE, Steve McQueen, the brilliant British director of HUNGER and SHAME, has probably created the first masterpiece of the new black cinema.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: 12 Years a Slave, Chiwetel Ejiofor, new black cinema, Steve McQueen

Theater Interview: A Conversation with Artistic Directors Olivia D’Ambrosio and Joseph Rodriguez

Teaming up allows Bridge Rep, as a new company, to do a much, much bigger show than we might ordinarily be able to do: we can offer our audiences a large ensemble piece like The Libertine, which would be beyond our reach otherwise.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Theater Tagged: Bridge Repertory Theater, Joseph Rodriguez, Olivia D' Ambrosio, Playhouse Creatures Theatre Company, Stephen Jeffreys, The Libertine

Theater Interview: New Rep’s “Elephant Man” — A Meditation on Frailty, Celebrity, and Healthcare

Why does John Merrick get a room in the London Hospital for the rest of his life? Because he’s charming and he’s witty, while the pinheads next door to him didn’t fare that well.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Interview Tagged: Jim Petosa, The Elephant Man, The New Repertory Theatre, Tim Spears

Film Review: Levon Helm — An Appreciation of The Man from Turkey Scratch

Musician Levon Helm’s folksy ideas about life, the anecdotes he shares, his reverence for American music and for the friends and comrades who gather around him, are inspirational.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film Tagged: Ain't in it for My Health, documentary, Levon Helm, The Band, Tim Jackson

Film Review: “The Canyons” — Yucky But Likeable

Lindsay Lohan is prostituting herself to a dreary vision of a Tinseltown shorn of even flickers of glory. And I like that.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Film, Fuse News, Review Tagged: Lindsay Lohan, Paul Schrader, The Canyons

Film Review: “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints” — Superbly Simple Noir

The understated soundtrack by Texas musician Daniel Hart and the ominous cinematography of Bradford Young complement director David Lowrey’s keen sense of pacing.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film Tagged: Ain't Them Bodies Saints, Casey Affleck, David Lowry, Rooney Mara

Theater Review: A Superb Staging of “This Is Our Youth” — A Perceptive Vision of American Muddle

In this brilliantly written play, Kenneth Lonergan finds both the humor and angst in the moral muddle generated by the Reagan Revolution.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Gloucester Stage Company, Kenneth Lonergan, This is Our Youth

Film Review: “Jobs” — A Diverting But Superficial Look At the Life and Career of Steve Jobs

Jobs is not an awful movie so much as an awkward one — it falls short of its intent, which I assume is to dramatize the tenacity of genius.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Film, Fuse News, Review Tagged: Ashton Kutcher, Jobs

Film Review: “Elysium” — The Sound and Fury of CGI Signifying … Not Much

Overall, Elysium is an entertaining distraction posing as a meaningful global allegory.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Elysium, Matt Damon, Neill Blomkamp

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