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Kathleen Spaltro’s biography of Ethel Barrymore briskly traces her mythic career but brings to life neither the woman nor her theatre.
With its briskly intoxicating style, narrative aplomb, and masterful performances, this film transforms pulpy material into a gripping entertainment with a satisfying, social justice subtext.
In this episode, Elizabeth Howard speaks with Bsrat Mezghebe about her debut novel, “I Hope You Find What You’re Looking For.”
This week’s poem: Sarah Riggs’s “Song to Nefertiti from Brooklyn”
Puscifer is alarmed that so many values, including bedrock rights, are under attack, with real people getting hurt (in some cases killed) in the process.
You can almost hear the volume whispering in your ear, “Be like lichen.” Traumatic grief, political tyranny, and environmental catastrophe are not irreversible.
Directors Sims-Fewer and Mancinelli indulge in a few too many changes of tone, but their film offers a pleasantly oddball romance.
A consistently engaging and engaged, insightful, humorous, scarily moving, polished contemporary drama with a premise to die for.
A trio of illuminating documentaries, their topics ranging from the struggles of a local newspaper to the days of public access cable television in New York City.
The point of a novel like this: Life is messy, but glorious. Kind of like “The Hadacol Boogie”.
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