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Theater Review: “Cuisine & Confessions” — A Delicious Spectacle

July 17, 2016
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The 7 Fingers can be depended on to fill everyone’s belly with spectacle.

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Arts Feature: Best Movies (With Some Disappointments) of 2021

December 23, 2021
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Our demanding critics choose the best films (along with some disappointments) of the year.

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Book Review: To End All Wars

July 8, 2011
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“To End All Wars” embodies its themes –- the decline of the aristocracy, the rise of propaganda, the transformation of war-making, the heroism of resistance –- so skillfully in a dozen or so major characters and another dozen minor ones that this history of the First World War reads like a lively group biography.

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TV Review: HBO’s “Silicon Valley” — The Comic Adventures of Nerd Musketeers

April 14, 2014
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“Silicon Valley” is sharp fun for both the computer lingo-savvy and for the non-Tweet, non-Facebook crowd such as out-of-it me.

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TV Review: “Gentefied” — Cultural Decimation, Courtesy of Real Estate

March 5, 2020
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Netflix’s newest comedy is a hilarious — though pointed –look at one of America’s biggest problems.

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Stage Commentary: Critical Limitations — And Theatrical Neglect

September 7, 2017
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Boston theater critics value stage venues that are “convenient” and “familiar.”

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Festival Review: Newport Folk 2025 — Signs of Fresh Hope

July 30, 2025
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Newport Folk Festival will likely never deliver cameos as ground shaking as those in 2022, when stars aligned for Joni Mitchell and Paul Simon to grace separate tributes. But it doesn’t have to, given that there’s so much talent already on site.

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Video Game Commentary: “Life Is Strange 2” — Indie Game Culture Goes Political

October 19, 2018
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Life Is Strange 2 makes no secret about its sympathy for Mexican-Americans in the era of Trump.

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Music Feature: Two Musicians on Dealing with the Pandemic –Jennifer Slowik and Yahuba Torres

February 14, 2021
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“Individual stories are the single most important component of any collective, and your story matters more than you can know.”

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Notes from (Boston) Underground Part I: BUFF’s “The Dunwich Horrors” Local Shorts Program

March 27, 2023
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In order to appreciate this smorgasbord of schlock by independent filmmakers from around New England, it’s best to understand the program in context

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