Is this trip really necessary? The “Terminator” franchise is a great example of a sci-fi mythology, and mining its veins of self-reference and historical paradoxes has been a rewarding enterprise for most (though not all) of the movies, as well as the “Chronicles” TV series. But generally, you want to move the ball ahead a [...]
I spent most of my time over the break with LF out there in real life, and I offer a thousand apologies for not posting anything. Well, trying to get back on track, here are a few capsule reviews of some of the various entertainments we availed ourselves of.
3.5 stars for gratuitous but cathartic violence.
This deeply moving, deeply felt and beautifully rendered film is something everyone should see. If for no other reason, the climactic scene of a freezing and starving Polish pianist playing Chopin for his life.
Babette’s Feast and Julie and Julia.
Sam Butera, Louis Prima’s arranger and tenor sax man, dead at 81. Here’s a cut from the 1956 album “The Wildest,” Oh Marie. It’s a nice example of the goofball stage antics and raw energy of the Prima band in its prime. Oh Marie
Over the weekend LF and I caught up with two movies, “Valkyrie” and “Frost/Nixon,” two stories of politicians and what went wrong.
The LF and I went out to see the new Star Trek pic Saturday night. The local theater at Essex Green was showing it on its biggest screen, which was especially nice.
But does it live up to the hype?
It’s a winning kind of movie with a mousetrap plot and some clever twists and turns along the way, and a cast that that makes it look easy.
There may be better movies out there than this, but not very many and they’re not better by very much.
I just got my master CD of the last orchestra concert, and to celebrate I’m putting up an audio clip of some band music.
For a few minutes there, we were the best concert band in town. Er, wind ensemble.
In “The Reader,” Kate Winslet is a woman with a dark secret. Two of them, actually. Set in Germany in a period spanning the late ’50s to the early ’90s, the first 30-40 minutes involved a lot of the delectable Ms. Winslet getting naked with a much younger man. I was thinking that perhaps the [...]
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