Film
A Hard Day’s Night stands as a landmark in rock history because it exemplifies the Beatles’s joyously innocent starting point — today it delivers an irresistible sonic joy that comes from listening to songs that still rock after fifty years.
Read MoreThis kind of faux-inspirational drivel has Hollywood privilege written all over it.
Read MoreTwo significant feature debuts at the MFA’s French Film Festival — Age of Panic goes where few movies have gone before, while Apaches trains a calm, dispassionate gaze on disaffected youth.
Read MoreSo what was so impressive about the lineup of films at the 17th Maine Fest? Catnip for me are 35mm films on the big screen..
Read MoreAt first, Love is Strange seems to be about the trials and tribulations of dealing with prejudice in today’s world. But at closer inspection, it is really a moving depiction of the challenges of growing old.
Read MoreInformative new books look at a pair of tumultuous periods in American history — the Second World War and the Cold War — when Hollywood rode a particularly rocky political roller coaster.
Read MoreA Master Builder comes off as a Woody Allen wet dream, but Heavenly Angle is the love child of Alice’s Restaurant and Waiting for Guffman.
Read MoreFilm critic Roger Ebert was a complicated man and this documentary does a superb job of exploring his different sides, detailing the evolution of his personality over the decades.
Read MoreA Coffee in Berlin is described accurately in its publicity as “a slacker comedy.”
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