July

assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedImage100100-bourne520x300.jpg

“Jason Bourne” film: Don’t trust the CIA

What's arguably most interesting about Jason Bourne is its up-to-the-minute topicality, ripping those proverbial headlines right off the front pages.

assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedImage100100-CafeSociety.jpg

Blinded by the bright lights of Hollywood and “Café Society”

How Woody Allen keeps 'em coming on such a high level of interest is a phenomenon of continued creative juices still flowing in the senior decades. 

assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedImage100100-agods540x300.jpg

American Gods: Cast, producers talk whitewashing, Mike Pence, new trailer

Imagine a world where supernatural personifications of the internet, capitalism, and media are newly formed gods hell-bent on taking power.

assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedImage100100-operareview520.jpg

Human trafficking and sex slavery: The opera

Set amidst a maelstrom of deception, secrecy and violence, Anya17 emphasizes young girls' aspirations for comfort and freedom in "the West."

assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedImage100100-gbusters530.jpg

“Ghostbusters”: 30 years later, can this sequel stand on its own?

It's not easy making a sequel. Should you stick to the original formula?

assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedImage100100-rteeth500.jpg

Holychild’s summer jam EP: A Brat Pop critique of capitalism

A new critique of pop culture, mass consumption and its objectification of the female body.

assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedImage100100-RecordedinHollywood520x300.jpg

“Recorded in Hollywood”: Black musical pioneer John Dolphin’s story on stage

We simply cannot accept that Recorded in Hollywood might close and never be heard from again. It has Broadway lights twinkling all over it. 

assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedImage100100-Imaginary-Invalid9NC-300x246.jpg

Molière’s madcap merriment amuses

"The Imaginary Invalid" pokes fun at doctors and the class system with ribald humor.

assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedImage100100-mgaye520.jpg

In “The Marvin Gaye Story,” sexual healing is the political

The music gives us this clarity about who we are, how we can be, the world we can achieve. 

assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedImage100100-cmieville.jpg

China Miéville’s postmodern fantasies in “Three Moments of an Explosion”

The contemporary British fantasist China Miéville's collection of short stories  is a diverse mix of styles.