Review
Journalist Ian Nathan presents Peter Jackson’s trials in bringing Tolkien’s books to film as if he was writing a spy thriller.
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Aside from his seemingly effortless technique, Roustem Saïtkoulov struck me as a poet of the piano. Music seems to be his first language.
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In Washington Black novelist Esi Edugyan has defied the cliché of the escaped slave discovering freedom.
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The film captures everything I love about Queen — the outrageousness, the audacity, the bigness of it all.
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This is a sublime little film — an elegantly cross-stitched portrait of an all-American family fracturing under the weight of broken dreams and false promises.
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Hub Theatre Company’s production bursts with energy, staged with a clear-minded sense of movement and a hand-made quality that generates ample charm and whimsy.
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Mother Butterfly’s script shows genuine promise, but the Storm Warnings Repertory Theatre’s premiere production falls short.
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Maniac is mind-bending entertainment that’s also an invitation to muse on infinite possibilities.
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Daniel Carter’s disc revolves, splendidly, around a process of self-discovery.
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Brian Phillips uses the essay form to map the limits of America’s cultural-historical imagination, from our highest achievements to our kitschiest expressions of who we think we are, and who we think everyone else is.
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