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Short Fuse Book Review: “Zealot” — Jesus as Jewish Peasant and Revolutionary

I am a secular Jew who can’t but welcome Zealot‘s conclusion that Christianity pulled a role reversal on Jesus, and made this failed revolutionary Jew into someone who eschewed his people and its traditions in favor of Roman power.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Christianity, Jesus, Reza Aslan, Short Fuse, Zealot

Theater Review: “Valentine Trilogy” Has a Lot of Passion but Could Use More Smarts

So what’s a hero to do but throw punches and kicks in the name of love and forgiveness?

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Ian Thal, Nathan Allen, Skylar Fox, The Circuit Theatre Company, The Valentine Trilogy

CD Review: Julia Holter’s “Loud City Song” — Stark Urban Beauty

The third and latest LP from indie singer-songwriter and composer Julia Holter proffers a vision of urban ecstasy.

By: Austin W. Filed Under: Featured, Music, Popular Music, Review, Rock Tagged: Julia Holter, Loud City Song

Fuse Theater Review: Barrington Stage Company Serves up a Lavish “Much Ado”

From the first clearly projected lines to the last, it’s obvious that director Julianne Boyd set out to direct a production of Much Ado where language rules supreme.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Barrington Stage Company, Berkshires, Julianne Boyd, Much Ado About Nothing, William-Shakespeare

Jazz CD Reviews: John Scofield’s “Überjam Deux” and Dave Holland’s “Prism”

Dave Holland’s Prism tells stories, several of which are very effective. Scofield’s, like his earlier Überjam releases, extends the jam-band esthetic into jazz without completely giving in to it. And neither of them would be as they are without the great looming shadow of Miles Davis.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Adam Deitch, Andy Hess, Avi Bortnick, Craig Taborn, Dave Holland, Eric Harland, John Medeski, John Scofield, Kevin Eubanks, Louis Cato, Prism, Überjam Deux

Film Review: “Blue Jasmine” — Woody Allen’s Evocative Triumph

What carries Blue Jasmine over the moon is the breathtaking, Oscar-worthy performance of Cate Blanchett, whose tortured Park Avenue socialite on the skids is among the most stunning performances by an actress in years.

By: Glenn Rifkin Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Blue Jasmine, Cate Blanchett, woody-Allen

Film Review: “Lovelace” — A Provocatively Written, Well-Acted Biopic

Amanda Seyfried gives a sensitive performance as Linda Lovelace; Peter Sarsgaard is chilling as Chuck Traynor, the abusive husband who saw her as sex-object and potential money-making machine.

By: Betsy Sherman Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Amanda Seyfried, Inside Deep Throat, Lovelace

Film Review: “Elysium” — The Sound and Fury of CGI Signifying … Not Much

Overall, Elysium is an entertaining distraction posing as a meaningful global allegory.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Elysium, Matt Damon, Neill Blomkamp

Film Review: “Le Pont du Nord” — An Entertaining Exercise in Playful Dis-Ease

This entertaining and provocative work, made in 1981 by the now 85-year-old director, fits into his oeuvre as a complement to his best known movie among American art-film fans, 1974’s Céline and Julie Go Boating.

By: Betsy Sherman Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Bulle Ogier, Harvard Film Archive, Jacques Rivette, Le Pont du Nord

Theater Review: “Laughing Stock” Redux

The current revival of Laughing Stock, directed again by the playwright, has softer edges than I remember in the earlier one, played with fluidity rather than crackle.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: backstage comedy, Jim Kates, Laughing Stock, Peterborough Players

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