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Television Review: “Witches: Truth Behind the Trials” — Just the Facts

October 13, 2024
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There are valuable lessons here, but I are afraid that this docuseries will be overlooked among all the more enticing, and sensationalized, witchy watchings. 

Coming Attractions: October 13 through 28 — What Will Light Your Fire

October 13, 2024
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

Opera Album Reviews: A Major Classical Label Arises — Four More Fine Baroque Operas

October 12, 2024
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Each of these four works has its own flavor, and lovers of Baroque and Classic-era music will happily scoop up one or more of the recordings.

Theater Review: “Nassim” — Word Play

October 11, 2024
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The script is an experiment, a (sometimes) witty lecture on language. But it doesn’t work dramatically.

Film Review: “The Apprentice” — Marinating in Malignance

October 11, 2024
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It’s Jeremy Strong’s portrayal of Roy Cohn that hangs in this not-very-good movie like a Rembrandt on the cracked plaster of a La Quinta suite by the airport.

Book Review: “The Second Shot” — An Incomplete Story

October 10, 2024
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This memoir is, in part, Gene Yu’s effort to give credit where credit is due for his rescue of a woman kidnapped by the Jihadist terrorist group Abu Sayyaf.

Book Review: “Not Even Nominated” — They Shoulda Been Oscar Contenders

October 10, 2024
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Critic John DiLeo argues that even the Academy Awards can make mistakes. And, in the process, he constructs an alternate history of who should or should not have been Oscar nominees.

Musician Interview: At the Orpheum — Singer/Songwriter Warren Haynes Previews His Upcoming Album

October 9, 2024
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Legendary guitarist Warren Haynes talks about how his upcoming album, Million Voices Whisper, was put together and what it is like to perform in front of Boston crowds.

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

October 9, 2024
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The week’s poem: Ben Berners-Lee’s “Early Harvest”

Television Review: “The Platform 2” — Junk Food

October 8, 2024
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Was another helping of “The Platform” necessary? Maybe. But only if it was done right — and this is half-baked sci-fi horror.

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