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Local Film Theaters — Recommended Coming Attractions

July 12, 2020
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LOCAL THEATERS While films are available on multiple platforms (see below) listed here are the latest offerings to purchase from local theaters, sales that will help support local struggling institutions. COOLIDGE CORNER THEATER Coolidge Corner, Brookline WE ARE LITTLE ZOMBIES One sunny day, four young strangers—Hikari, Ikuko, Ishi, and Takemura—meet by chance at a crematorium.…

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Film Review: 5 Women Filmmakers — A Sampling of the Superb

March 2, 2019
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This is a finely-selected sampling of what some accomplished women filmmakers offered in 2018.

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Coming Attractions in Rock: August 2012

July 29, 2012
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August ushers in some Lo-fi indie here in New England. Sebadoh and HR from Bad Brains are the well-knowns, but homegrown musicians Dan Blakeslee and School for Robots show us that minimalist artistic bones are growing healthy below the radar.

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Film Review: “Call Me Lucky” — An Extraordinary Portrait of Satirist Barry Crimmins

August 21, 2015
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A labor of love that’s more than merely that, Call Me Lucky is one of the few great movies to come out so far this year.

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Fuse News: The Nieman Foundation Celebrates the Centennial of the Pulitzer Prize – No Kudos for Critics

September 6, 2016
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The hope is that nobody will notice that arts criticism hasn’t been invited to the Pulitzer Prize’s centennial party.

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Film Festival Preview: GlobeDocs Film Festival 2025 — A Varied Mix of Documentaries

October 20, 2025
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Our critic watched a half-dozen films in this year’s GlobeDocs Film Festival and shares his thoughts.

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Poetry Review: John Koethe’s “Beyond Belief” – Disembodied Mind

August 22, 2022
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Poet John Koethe moralizes in an abstract “universal” space — some might call it versifying in a vacuum.

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Film Review: “Loving” — The Courage of Passion

November 10, 2016
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Loving celebrates the passion and courage of two people who, by doing what was right for them, established justice for generations to come.

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Theater Review: “Time Stands Still” — After Trauma

September 25, 2019
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In this seemingly modest, but beautifully constructed and deeply moving play, Donald Margulies has tackled some of the thorniest questions of our time.

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Music Review: NEC Jazz Orchestra, directed by Ken Schaphorst — Harlem Comes to Jordan

October 31, 2010
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Why should you have been in Jordan Hall on October 21? First, to hear Ken Schaphorst’s reconstruction of Duke Ellington’s “Harlem,” aka “A Tone Parallel to Harlem,” aka “The Harlem Suite,” a score on which Ken labored painstakingly and which the NEC Jazz Orchestra played thrillingly well. Music of Duke Ellington. Performed by New England…

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