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Book Review: “Savage Kiss” — Children’s Criminal Crusade

January 2, 2021
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Maybe the greatest value of Saviano’s narratives is that they rebuke the complicity of silence; they are acts of dissent that refuse to kowtow to the oppressive omertà.

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Theater Review: “This Is Who I Am” — Virtual Intimacy

January 1, 2021
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Amir Nizar Zuabi’s engaging drama is a hopeful testament to communication and forgiveness.

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Streaming Docs: The Best of 2020 in Review — Part 1, Past and Present

December 31, 2020
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2020 offered another rich year for the documentary form, well beyond the tabloid entertainment of the likes of Tiger King

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Jazz Album Reviews: Dave Brubeck x 2

December 31, 2020
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Two from Dave Brubeck: Time Outtakes, the alternate tracks for the Dave Brubeck Quartet’s classic 1959 album Time Out is very good to have; Lullabies is filled with the intimate sound of the pianist’s old age, tender affection, and distilled musical wisdom.

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Film Review: “News of the World” — An Intimate Two-Shot of a Western

December 31, 2020
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The filmmakers use their story to point towards a way to help us navigate through our own polarization; it has something to do with each of us widening our perspective to take in more than just our immediate experience.

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Film Review: “Let Them All Talk” — Angst of Many Flavors

December 30, 2020
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The film feels amateurish in the most complimentary Stendhalien sense: created in a spirit of play, rather than a sweaty effort to advance a studio agenda.

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Country Music CD Review: “We Shall All Be Reunited: The Bristol Sessions, 1927 & 1928” — Revising Musical History

December 30, 2020
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Producer Ted Olson is on a mission in We Shall Be Reunited to do justice to the past; he imagines a beautiful alternative to the current ballyhooed origin story of country music.

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Film Review: “Promising Young Woman” — Surprisingly Restrained

December 29, 2020
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In its efforts to subvert well-known tropes, and reclaim the subgenre’s feminist cultural potency, Promising Young Woman undercuts its own transgressive potential by doing away with what makes rape-revenge films compelling.

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Film/Music Review: The Best Music Documentaries of 2020 — With Some Disppointments

December 29, 2020
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Some of the best music documentaries of 2020 – and some disappointments

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Film Review: The Best Horror of 2020

December 28, 2020
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It was the most terrifying of times, it was the most horrifying of times.

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