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Book Review: “Colossus” — Swimming With the Snakes

April 27, 2026
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Ross Barkan is a good enough of a writer to have avoided the trap of making this novel just an anti-Trump protest.

Fest Review: IFFBoston Shorts — Part Four

April 26, 2026
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Part four of a run-down of live-action narrative shorts. As usual for the IFFBoston, the quality is high, with intriguing subject matter and technical polish.

Film Festival Reviews: Berlin — A Vampire Returns and a Fascist Invasion Revisited

April 26, 2026
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The Berlin International Film Festival had two major premieres this year — a vampire parade and a war saga in Ethiopia.

Fest Review: IFFBoston Shorts — Part Three

April 25, 2026
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Part three of a run-down of live-action narrative shorts. As usual for the IFFBoston, the quality is high, with intriguing subject matter and technical polish.

Fest Review: IFFBoston Shorts — Part Two

April 24, 2026
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Part two of a run-down of live-action narrative shorts. As usual for the IFFBoston, the quality is high, with intriguing subject matter and technical polish.

Fest Review: IFFBoston Shorts — Part One

April 23, 2026
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Part one of a run-down of live-action narrative shorts. As usual for the IFFBoston, the quality is high, with intriguing subject matter and technical polish.

Theater Review: “Cats: The Jellicle Ball” and “Masquerade” – What a Bold Concept Can and Can’t Do for Andrew Lloyd Webber

April 23, 2026
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Two productions set out to reinvent Andrew Lloyd Webber’s back catalog. Only one of them succeeds.

Film Commentary: “Castration Movie Chapter iii. Junior Ghosts,” “The Serpent’s Skin,” and the New Trans Cinema Moment

April 23, 2026
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If a truly trans cinema canon is to exist, then it must reclaim authorship over how trans people and narratives are represented on screen by giving trans artists the means and opportunity to create a cinema of their own.

Doc Talk: Local Heroes and Big Questions at Independent Film Festival Boston

April 22, 2026
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The spirit of Frederick Wiseman lives on at the IFFBoston.

Dance Review: Dancing Between Traditions — Vimoksha’s Lush and Luminous Fusion

April 21, 2026
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A Boston-based ensemble blends Indian classical forms with contemporary dance to probe birth, patriarchy, and migration.

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