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An unreliable narrator is a tough row to hoe for a fiction writer, but a narrator who doesn’t quite know what to think — that’s even harder ground to plow.
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Local film festivals like the 23rd annual Boston Underground Film Festival feel like such a balm for the tide of poisonous mediocrity that’s now the standard in our current movie landscape.
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I am honestly puzzled by the casualness or, at times, ferocity with which some people nowadays reject classical music as inherently narrow or elitist.
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“I’m hoping people will revisit Otto Preminger’s movies because he made some of the best films ever made in America.”
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I’m Thinking of Ending Things is a bit of a wonder, a careful nightmare that demands rapt attention even if repeated viewings do little to assuage its eeriness.
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Disco is back in town! DJ Joey Carvello returns to Boston and the compilation Boston Goes Disco! is released.
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Read MoreAlive Inside, the winner for Best Documentary at the Festival, had the audience gasping and in tears.
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Jazz Commentary: Billy Cobham, Then and Now — An Awesome Jazz Drummer
Billy Cobham plays right on top of the beat, and his grooves are impeccable. Maybe he’s not the first drummer you’d call for a loose New Orleans shuffle, but if you could hire the Terminator to be your percussionist, Cobham is your man.
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