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Theater Review: “Casey at the Bat: An All-American Panto!” — A Winning Nine Innings

October 23, 2024
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The goal of a panto is to provide amusement, and this one does, its creative performance team scoring with the help of a generous serving of faux-Americana. 

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Film Review: “Anora” — A Rollicking Fractured Fairy Tale

October 23, 2024
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In “Anora,” director Sean Baker brilliantly sustains a hybrid tone, weaving together LOL comedy, sadness, and rage.

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Film Review: “Conclave” — Autumn of the Patriarchy

October 23, 2024
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Calling out papal bull in the twisty, provocative, and subversive “Conclave”.

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Theater Review: “Pru Payne” — Critical Condition

October 22, 2024
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This is a well-honed, mostly successful script about the difficulties of making human connections — a drama about seizing the day.

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Television Review: From South Korea with Love, “A Virtuous Business” — Sex Toys “R” Us

October 21, 2024
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The enormously entertaining “A Virtuous Business” also offers a lesson in nerve and resilience that women everywhere should learn from.

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Book Review: Tamas Dobozy’s “Stasio” — Noir Fiction That is Haunted and Haunting

October 21, 2024
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“Stasio” is an exercise in noir fiction with the intellectual depth we expect from our best writers, compounded by the lyricism of Tamas Dobozy’s style, crisp dialogue, wit and humor, and well-drawn characters.

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Film Review: “Rumours” — It All Ends with a Whimper

October 21, 2024
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Few other films this year will match the absurd satiric heights of director Guy Maddin’s “Rumours”.

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Jazz Album Review: Terry Gibbs’ Slam-Bang Big Band, Vol. 7

October 20, 2024
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This 65-year-old recording features some of the best players in L.A. and it is bright, sharp, and revealing. There’s plenty to marvel at here even if I would have wished for more ballads and fewer Stan Kenton-like brass fanfares. 

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Doc Talk: The Boston Palestine Film Festival — Visions of Loss and Recovery

October 18, 2024
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At The Boston Palestine Film Festival: a recognition of what remains and a restoration of what is lost.

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At the New York Film Festival – Journalists Flee Russia, a Would-Be Assassin Talks, and New York Circa 1965, Aglow in Beatlemania

October 18, 2024
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Three fine documentaries at the NYFF: two delved into political matters, the third looked around New York City in 1965.

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