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Film Reviews: April’s Streaming Docs

April 5, 2024
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By Neil Giordano A selection of notable documentaries currently in the digital universe: Christian missionaries, high school athletics, and a trio of filmmakers who mess with Texas. A familiar story — a young man on a quixotic quest that ends in tragedy — takes a new turn in National Geographic’s The Mission (Hulu, Disney+), a…

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Visual Arts Review: The Photographs of Deana Lawson — Portals to Possibilities

November 15, 2021
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Viewers are invited to make what they will of the show’s images — to let their imaginations come up with their own expansive and beautiful stories.

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Film Review: “Wojnarowicz: F**K YOU F*GGOT F**KER” — Homage to a Perpetual Rebel

November 12, 2020
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The documentary covers a lot of dark and tragic territory, but it remains entertaining throughout, no doubt more than anything else from its skill in capturing the fierce, tender, acidic, brilliant, and ultimately inextinguishable energy of its subject, artist David Wojnarowicz.

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Book Review: “The Earth Dies Streaming” — Insistent Originality

July 4, 2019
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I happily read The Earth Dies Streaming through, all 433 pages of acute, often brilliant writing. And also often funny as hell.

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Theater Review: “The Wolves” — A Woman’s World

January 18, 2019
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Director A. Nora Long’s decision to collaborate with an all female-identifying design team and crew underscores her commitment to a feminist vision.

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Music Interview: Carl Palmer — Percussionist Extraordinaire

June 3, 2016
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Carl Palmer’s ELP Legacy will perform its “Remembering Keith and the Music of Emerson, Lake & Palmer” show next week in Arlington.

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Book Review: “Wail” — A Great Biography of Jazz Legend Bud Powell

November 13, 2013
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Peter Pullman deplores (without bathos) the wreckage of Bud Powell’s life and mourns (without tears) the consequent loss of so much masterful music. And his story of Powell’s life is even grimmer than the one we have previously been told.

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Theater Review: Shakespeare’s “Game of Thrones” — Staged With Gusto

May 28, 2015
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Rarely are Boston’s stages graced with a Shakespeare production that reaches this high a level of accomplishment.

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Film Review: A Dispatch from the 23rd Annual Boston Underground Film Festival (Part 2 of 2)

April 10, 2023
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Local film festivals like BUFF are keeping what’s left of the American film industry from turning into a massive IP holder churning out algorithmically generated slop for the masses.

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Book Review: “The Ghost at the Feast” — Three Cheers for American Interventionism

April 3, 2023
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The problem with The Ghost at the Feast is that the story it tells undermines its final argument. If America blundered by staying at home during the interwar period, it is blundering even more now by going relentlessly abroad.

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