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Film Review: “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” – A Full-Throated Banshee’s Cry

May 24, 2024
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The “Mad Max” series is one of the few franchises in history that’s only gotten better with age, likely because George Miller’s refined and tinkered with his distinctive vision via each new development in filmmaking technology.

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Book Review: “What Strange Paradise” — Unforgettable

October 23, 2021
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Run, do not walk, to pick up your copy of this novel about little person caught up in a very big world.

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Film Review: “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent” – (Nicolas Cage Bares All, But Keeps Most of His Clothes On)

April 22, 2022
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Oddball and entertaining comedy-drama-thriller is a Nic Cage fanboy’s dream

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Film Review: “Summer 1993” — Stolen Childhood

June 17, 2018
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Summer 1993 is provocative, both for the raw depth of the emotions it evokes and the directness of its storytelling.

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Film Review: “France” — A Comic Drama about the Shallowness of Contemporary Journalism

December 13, 2021
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Léa Seydoux claims the spotlight as the title character in Bruno Dumont’s pithy and entertaining France, giving a performance that’s cunningly calibrated to mesmerize.

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Theater Review: “The Revolutionists” — Comedy During the Reign of Terror

November 12, 2017
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Director Courtney O’Connor, the Nora Theatre, and its skilled cast do right by this hilarious historical comedy.

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Music Interview: The Sweet Remains — Performing Only When the Stars Align

February 13, 2018
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This is a folk/rock trio whose sound and haunting harmonies harken back to Crosby, Stills & Nash, the Eagles and Simon & Garfunkel.

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Listening During Covid, Part 11: Making Classical Music New in All Kinds of Ways

May 26, 2022
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Two exquisite sopranos bring us refreshing songs, arias, and cantatas; and a noted Broadway composer and a remarkable Black librettist offer a searing opera about police brutality.

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Film Review: “Tár” — Music Is Her Master

October 7, 2022
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Tar is about a major artist with an outsize ego who ignores at her peril the seismic shifts in the culture.

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Arts Commentary: The Brave New World of Videogame Art

April 10, 2011
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So let’s steady that swaying hive, put down the poking stick, and take a deep breath. Games continue to evolve in creative, unexpected ways, and the mechanics of gameplay can form the basis of intriguing and thought-provoking works of art.

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