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Film Review: Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” — Forty Years in the Making … And it Shows

September 25, 2024
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In “Megalopolis,” we have Francis Ford Coppola, Titan of Cinema, unleashing his undiluted meditation on Roman History, US History, Political Rivalry and Cooperation, Urban Planning, Technology, Love, Marriage, etc.

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Film Review: “Asteroid City” — Reality Is Beside the Point

June 19, 2023
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Asteroid City is hard to pin down, largely because it holds its ideas about nostalgia and grief at arm’s length.

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Classical CD Reviews: Ernst von Dohnányi Orchestral Works, Handel & Haydn Society plays Haydn, and Eric Coates Orchestral Works

November 17, 2019
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A noteworthy recording of Ernst von Dohnányi’s Symphony no. 1; as usual, Harry Christophers and the Handel & Haydn Society play Haydn with their customary elegance and character; a celebration of British composer Eric Coates – his music’s impossibly fresh tunefulness, striking progressions, and vividly idiomatic orchestrations.

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Concert Review: Tenacious D Returns

November 23, 2018
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Jack Black and Kyle Gass were happily living out their nerdy, rockstar dreams — and their fans were loving it.

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Visual Arts Review: “Landmarks” at Williams College Museum of Art — Losing Your Way

March 1, 2020
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The Ruskinian mantra of “truth to nature” was eventually upended by the development of digital imagery and the agile manipulations of Photoshop.

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Opera Review: BEMF Hangs Out with the Sun King

November 30, 2016
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The stellar BEMF team whips up a holiday confection that’s worth catching year after year.

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Book Review: “Days of Rage” — Counterculture Craziness

May 13, 2015
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How can you act sanely when your country is brazenly committing genocide? Many of us didn’t.

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Film Review: “Foxcatcher” — Sports and the Pathology of the 1%

January 15, 2015
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Of all the cinematic indictments of the 1% that have flooded the multiplex in the wake of the financial crisis, Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher stands as one of the most understated.

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Film Review: Louis C.K.’s “Tomorrow Night” – Ernie Kovacs meets early John Waters

February 22, 2014
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“Tomorrow Night” is firmly in the makes-you-cringe vein of comedy of which “Louie” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm” would become exemplars.

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Book Review: Martin Cruz Smith’s “Tatiana” — More than a Thriller?

December 19, 2013
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After 2010’s too spare “Three Stations,” fans old and new will find Martin Cruz Smith back in full form with “Tatiana,” creating a taut, subtle, often darkly funny and even moving tale.

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