I had a disappointing movie weekend. On the surface, Big Hero 6 is the perfect movie for me. It’s a cartoon! It’s action packed! It features adorable, beautiful animation! And it’s genial enough. Funny enough. Engrossing enough. But at the end I was left with the distinct impression that I’d just sat through a decent […]
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Australian acrobatic company Circa has livened CanStage with a refreshingly new and desperately needed contemporary circus show. Opus is 75 non-stop minutes of circus feats, but also shows the audience a new side of modern circus. It was a difficult transition, it seemed, for many patrons to adjust their pre-show anticipation into respectful awe and […]
That strange, spooky family familiar to most of us comes to Stoneham, Massachusetts, with their own style of family values. Stoneham Theatre’s The Addams Family, A New Musical brings a wonderful and energetic concoction of silly and memorable characters with family morals that just might not be so creepy after all. The Addams Family franchise […]
There are moments of Interstellar that are outstanding. It is visually stunning. It has a breathtaking vision of space, grounded by actual astrophysics (theoretically, sort of), which gets writ large across a gritty film landscape that manages to evoke classic science fiction movies while also featuring stunning graphics. And the simplified plot – man goes […]
The Season 8 finale of Doctor Who brought together many of the plot threads it strung throughout the season. It addressed a lot of questions the season posed, but did little to make anyone care about the answers. (Spoilers ahead). The previous episode ‘Dark Water’ revealed that the Nethersphere teased throughout the season was actually […]
Mere months have passed in ACN’s world since we left The Newsroom. That was election night, November 6th 2012 (September 2013 for us). Will and Mac were engaged, Sloan and Don were tentatively together, Jim made it home from the campaign trail with an awesome new Streep-y girlfriend, Maggie’s mental state was finally beginning to […]
JC Chandor may be a new name to a lot of people, but he is single handedly pushing and re-inventing acting led dramatic films. Within the last three years Chandor has explored the recent financial crash, one man’s struggle with the tempestuous sea and himself, and the heating oil business of 1981, one of the […]
On this edition of “Talking to Fox” I got to chat with Yeardley Smith the voice of Lisa Simpson, and John Dimaggio the voice of Bender from Futurama. Tomorrow (Sunday Nov 9th) is the long awaited “Simpsorama” – the Futurama/The Simpsons crossover episode. While I have been a huge fan of both shows for years, […]