MUSIC REVIEW: Madonna – ‘Rebel Heart’ (★★★½)
Madonna’s had a tough couple of months. Just before Christmas last year a handful of demos from her new album were leaked to the public... Read More
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Retrospective: Worst Picture/Best Picture Series – Ghosts Can’t Do It, Dances With Wolves and The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990)
“A Ghost, an Officer, and a Gentleman” In 1990 there was an enduring film about a couple who loved each other so much that even... Read More
REVIEW: ‘The Comeback’ Season 2 Finale
If you didn’t keep up with The Comeback’s unlikely second season, you missed some of the most compelling television of the year. If The Comeback... Read More
REVIEW: ‘Into the Woods’
Stephen Sondheim’s musical treatment of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales has been all but canonized by lovers of “highbrow” musical theatre. As such, the selection... Read More
REVIEW: ‘Annie’ (2014)
It’s been three decades since the last time we saw Annie on the big screen and with a winking poke at the traditionally (white) red-headed... Read More
REVIEW: ‘Still Alice’ (★★★½)
There is a scene early on in Still Alice where Julianne Moore’s Columbia University professor Dr. Alice Howland is giving a speech on linguistics to... Read More
Music Review: Perfume Genius – Too Bright
A term I have never particularly cared for when it comes to discussing music is the term “grower”. Ideally, this term should be applied... Read More
37th Mill Valley Film Festival Capsule Reviews: The Imitation Game, Whiplash, Force Majeure, Foxcatcher
The Imitation Game (Morten Tyldum) Alan Turing won World War II. The creator of the decoder of Germany’s legendary Enigma machine, Turing’s genius and persistence... Read More
37th Mill Valley Film Festival Capsule Reviews: The Homesman and Two Days, One Night
The Homesman (Tommy Lee Jones) In Tommy Lee Jones’s second directorial effort he gives us the story of a pioneer woman (Hilary Swank) who is... Read More
Telluride Reviews: Oscar Hopefuls ‘The Imitation Game,’ ‘Rosewater,’ ‘Wild’
The 41st Telluride Film Festival is underway and classically it’s one of the shortest high profile film festivals around. With just five days to pack... Read More
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