Florence Foster Jenkins – The Ed Wood Of Singers
People may say I couldn’t sing, but no one can ever say I didn’t sing. Florence Foster Jenkins (Meryl Streep in a performance that [...]
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The Beauty Queen of Leenane – In the Eye of the Beholder
One does not go see a Martin McDonagh play expecting cheer. His oeuvre is dramatic- bleak, and violent, often wrapped in seriously black [...]
Street Seens: Oxymoronically Yours
Who was it that said, “a verbal agreement isn’t worth the paper it’s written on?” I think it might have been attributed to Samuel [...]
Five Flicks With Talking Dogs
We always wish we could speak with our pets directly and because of that fantasy, talking dogs are constantly showing up on the Silver [...]
Patriots Day – Profiles in Courage
What should have been a day of celebration turned into a day of tragedy when two brothers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, planted bombs [...]
20th Century Woman – Helicopter Parenting 70s Style
The Victorian house featured prominently in Mike Mills’ new film, 20th Century Women, might serve as a metaphor for its inhabitants, a [...]
The Present – Combustible Relationships
Anton Chekhov’s The Present, written when he was 18, didn’t see the light until twenty years after his death. Uncut, this first [...]
Jacqueline B. Arnold Talks About An Evening with Phyllis Hyman
Old friend It’s so nice to feel you hold me again No, it doesn’t matter where you have been My heart welcomes you back home [...]
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