The second season of HBO’s loved and loathed Aaron Sorkin drama The Newsroom begins with a toned-down, piano-heavy version of last year’s rousing theme song. Instead of the reverent images of broadcast icons that accompanied last year’s intro, this year we have a slightly more abstract portrait of modern life in the trenches of Atlantis […]
Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston presents their Fiddler on the Roof, billing the production as “Scott Wahle in Fiddler on the Roof”. Wahle does an adequate job in the iconic role of Tevye, a Jewish milkman in the poor town of Anatevka. However, the real heart of the production comes in the surprises from […]
I complain a lot about women in film and tv. I complain a lot about the lack of varied interpretation and interesting characters – about the fact that “women’s shows” are often relegated to a “lady business” ghetto while “men’s shows” are seen as real art. But while I obviously still think this is going […]
I seem to have terrible luck with The Toronto Fringe Festival. Actually, let me amend that: some years I have terrible luck with The Toronto Fringe Festival. I seem to remember 2011 being just full of win. 2013? Not so much. I caught more bad breaks in my attempts to cover this year’s festival than […]
Glittered high-end designer goods, expensive rides, plush celebrity mansions, teenagers without control and…not much else. Accompanied by trash talk and a loud, vulgar rap soundtrack, Sofia Coppola’s new feature The Bling Ring provides an accurate visualization of Nancy Jo Sales’ Vanity Fair article “The Suspects Wore Louboutins” revealing the true story of “a gang of well-off […]
It seems like we have just finished a period of time in pop culture where 80’s nostalgia was in vogue. Wall Street got a sequel, Teen Wolf became a tv show, Red Dawn got an unnecessary remake, and Hot Tub Time Machine just went right back to the decade itself for the maximum amount of […]
Jack Your Body A dance performance that makes me want to go out and get my boogie on always boasts the audience leaving with smiles plastered on their faces. The Mix-Mix Dance Collective certainly brought in a mixed crowd but gave universal satisfaction. An elderly couple in front of me at the show commented “Well […]
With his directorial debut, Michael C. Hall stepped behind the camera to direct the second episode of the final season, titled “Every Silver Lining.” The episode opened with Dr. Vogel showing Dexter a video of Harry speaking with her in counseling sessions. The VHS quality tape showed the police officer Harry: a version viewers do […]