Review
June Moon is a piece of satirical fluff with 27 characters, lots of piano playing, and a half-dozen memorable lines.
Begin Again is a film with considerable flaws and strengths. The later include stellar performances by Mark Ruffalo, Catherine Keener, and Hailee Steinfeld.
Here are a handful of underground/alternative music releases worth your consideration.
If you can’t make the Montreal International Jazz Festival this time, put it on your bucket list.
His art’s sunny, unhurried elegance, so at odds with its message, suggests that Finlay is taking a Swiftian rhetorical stance.
If drummer Ginger Baker’s staring into the abyss, he’s doing it with defiance and a good beat.
What I’ll remember most is how the BCE’s various choral pieces seemed custom-made for the Hayden Planetarium’s celestial projections, and how, for an hour, the so-called real world faded away.
The haughty, witty Gore Vidal, my role model, was never happier than when going against the madding American populace.
Lift explores so many divergent issues that it would have been easy for the filmmakers to only give lip service to problems it raises. Thankfully, that is not the case.
Had Bay Area Figuration taken its place in the canon, we might not find ourselves in the tiresome situation we’re in at the moment.
Arts Commentary: The Orchestra Gap — Europe vs. the US