Review

Book Review: Lucinda Franks’s Memoir – A Deeply Romantic Story of a May-December NYC Power Couple

September 1, 2014
Posted in , ,

Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Lucinda Franks’s writing can be brilliant, deeply honest, and startling; other times superficial, sentimental, New Agey, or simply not credible.

Fuse Book Review: “The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in Ten Songs” — Chronicling the Thrill of Invention

August 29, 2014
Posted in , ,

On more than one occasion in The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in Ten Songs Greil Marcus argues that the original recordings of some of his picks don’t hold a candle to their cover versions.

New York Theater Review Notes: Tennessee Williams and Hotsy Totsy Burlesque

August 28, 2014
Posted in , ,

A charming, thoughtful one-man homage to writer Tennessee Williams and a hilarious burlesque spoof of TV’s Mad Men.

Book Review: “Love Made Visible” — A Poignant Memoir About Life With a Boston “Renaissance Man”

August 27, 2014
Posted in , ,

We become participants in a chapter of American art history that raises important questions about what fame means, how much a part luck plays, and how we treat our artists. .

Television Review: “Orange is the New Black” — The Future of High Quality TV Drama?

August 27, 2014
Posted in , ,

The men are portrayed as comically irrelevant — and this is refreshing given the phallocentric alpha-male angst that has been TV fodder so often before.

Movie Review: Joanna Hogg’s “Exhibition” — Voyeurism Revisited

August 27, 2014
Posted in , ,

Seeing Exhibition is like spying through a window on our most glamorous neighbors moving about their flat: it’s kind of kinky, kind of fun.

Book Review: “Our Lady of the Nile” — Prefiguring Rwandan Genocide

August 26, 2014
Posted in , , ,

Because of the national tension between the Tutsis and the Hutus, and its effects on everyday routines in the school, this novel cannot long remain a bemusing tale of adolescent life.

Album Review: B L A C K I E — Conflating the Barbaric and the Beautiful

August 26, 2014
Posted in , ,

Imagine Yourself in a Free and Natural World finds B L A C K I E reaching an ambitious artistic high, delivering potent pieces of jazzy discord that impressively conflate the barbaric and the beautiful.

Theater Review: A Superbly Gritty Staging of August Wilson’s “Fences”

August 26, 2014
Posted in , ,

Director Eric C. Engel and the Gloucester Stage Company cast gives Fences an insightful and nuanced production.

Film Review: A Touching “Land Ho!” — We’re Not Dead Yet

August 25, 2014
Posted in , ,

Despite a few clichéd moments, Land Ho! is the satisfying product of the natural grace that Aaron Katz and Martha Stephens have developed as filmmakers.

Recent Posts

Popular Posts

Categories

Archives