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Film Review: “The Wobblies” — A Moving Story of a Largely Forgotten American Class Conflict

April 28, 2022
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After premiering at the New York Film Festival in 1979, this powerful documentary about one of the most dramatic periods in American labor history has been newly restored.

Classical Album Review: “When There Are No Words…” — Do Music and Politics Mix?

April 28, 2022
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When There Are No Words presents six pieces written between 1936 and 1980 by composers responding (at least seemingly) to contemporaneous political events and situations.

Film Review: “Resurrection” at the Independent Film Festival Boston

April 27, 2022
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What lifts Resurrection above the standard victim-becomes-avenger routine is a preposterous — in a wonderfully sick way — claim that gives the movie a welcome touch of giallo unpredictability.

Poetry Review: “Continuous Creation” — A Farewell from a Grand Old Man of Australian Verse

April 27, 2022
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Continuous Creation is a deceptively slight book from an incontrovertibly substantial poet.

Classical Album Review: “Opalescent” from the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

April 27, 2022
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Opalescent’s overriding aspect is celebratory – but from a variety of angles.

Children’s Book Reviews: A Trio of Stories That Explore the Meaning of Love

April 27, 2022
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Three looks at love that may help generate some interesting conversations about what love means in the lives of children.

Theater Review: “Our Daughters, Like Pillars” — Bearing the Weight

April 26, 2022
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Kirsten Greenidge’s epic comic drama is a spot-on examination of the challenges changing times pose to evolving families.

Television Review: “The Survivor” — What Price Survival?

April 26, 2022
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The Survivor examines what happens to someone who made the decision to survive in Auschwitz — no matter how.

Film Review: “The Northman” — You-Are-There with the Viking Beserkers, Nuttiness and Magic Galore

April 25, 2022
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The Northman is grounded in a manically precise capture of the Nordic world of the 9th century AD, but refracted through the lens of a whacked-out visionary in a spew of eye-popping images.

Television Review: “Gentleman Jack” — Even More Spellbinding in Season Two

April 25, 2022
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The emphasis isn’t on gratuitous sensuality: Gentleman Jack’s throes of passion are designed to reveal more about the psychological makeup of its characters.

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