Review
Local film festivals like the 23rd annual Boston Underground Film Festival feel like such a balm for the tide of poisonous mediocrity that’s now the standard in our current movie landscape.
The theme may be Black love, but the dramatist is too smart not to invite all of us to consider (or perhaps even reconsider) our personal definitions of what love means and how that changes the ways we relate to each other.
The film’s depictions of race-based massacres are sure to make Germans uncomfortable — as preludes to the Shoah.
All in all, an ear-opening introduction to an important opera composer — and to the little-known tradition of German-language (with Italian touches) Baroque opera.
The album seems to me to be about spotlighting the ensemble’s sound rather than the virtuoso displays of its leader.
In order to appreciate this smorgasbord of schlock by independent filmmakers from around New England, it’s best to understand the program in context
Goose has seen its stock in the jam-band world soar at a pace unseen since… well, Phish.
Meyerbeer’s Robert le diable paved the way for major works by Meyerbeer himself, Halévy, Verdi, Wagner (in German), Saint-Saëns, Massenet, and others — and this splendid performance shows why.
Book Review: Writer Thomas Mann — Still August After All These Years?
How does Thomas Mann’s grandiosity hold up today? A new selection of his short stories, freshly translated by veteran translator and fiction writer Damion Searls suggests an answer, though only partially.
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