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Book Review: “Hollywood’s Imperial Wars” — Darkness Visible

April 16, 2024
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“Hollywood’s Imperial Wars” is at its best as a bold and informative survey of the movies that the studios felt it was “credibly possible” for them to make after Vietnam.

Latin Jazz Album Review: The Blustery, Bellowing, and Bluesy Sound of Dave Schumacher and Cubeye

April 16, 2024
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This is my kind of music, a tight latin jazz outfit that embraces great horn charts and explosive percussion.

Theatre Preview: A Chat with Basil Twist — Poetry Wins in “Book of Mountains and Seas”

April 16, 2024
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You either go full Hollywood CGI, or you pare it down to the poetry of it.

Film Review: “The People’s Joker” — Intellectual Clown Property

April 15, 2024
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Whatever else 2024 has in store for queer filmmakers and audiences, there’s likely to be nothing else that’ll put a smile on your face quite like “The People’s Joker.”

Theater Interview/Preview: Dan O’Brien — The Playwright as Documentarian

April 14, 2024
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It’s not hyperbole to suggest that Dan O’Brien’s “True Story: A Trilogy” represents a distinctive achievement in theater history.

Film Review: “Amar Singh Chamkila” — A Spirited Showbiz Biography

April 14, 2024
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“Amar Singh Chamkila” doesn’t hit the compelling heights of “Highway” and “Tanasha,” but the director Imtiaz Ali successfully infuses — within the limits of the musical biopic — a buoyant, rebellious spirit.

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.

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.

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.

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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