The Noble Hustle gives talented novelist Colson Whitehead an opportunity to spelunk in some of the gnarlier corners of the American dream, in this case the Tropicana in Atlantic City.
"Music is kind of like a religion in a way, and your heroes become your patron saints."
The late Otto Piene was a world-class artist. He created large scale and elegant environmental art pieces that seamlessly combined art, participation, and technology.
One good reason to see Matthew Sweet is that his songs are more immediate live than on CD.
At first, Love is Strange seems to be about the trials and tribulations of dealing with prejudice in today's world. But at closer inspection, it is really a moving depiction of the challeng…
Informative new books look at a pair of tumultuous periods in American history -- the Second World War and the Cold War -- when Hollywood rode a particularly rocky political roller coaster.
The Nora Theatre Company's production of Her Aching Heart has enough energy, wit, challenge, and"yes"heart to delight those who approach the rousing satire with the right spirit.
The mega-popular video game Angry Birds is nothing if not hypocritical. A story of political and moral resistance is packaged to fill corporate coffers.
The Summer of Flying Fish is visual to the max; Stranger Then Paradise remains one of the most important indie films of the last thirty years.
The under-appreciated singer-songwriter Tommy Keene is equal parts an aficionado and creator of pop music.
A Master Builder comes off as a Woody Allen wet dream, but Heavenly Angle is the love child of Alice's Restaurant and Waiting for Guffman.
Gary Shteyngart's memoir proffers the rhetorical zest and caustic wit of his novels, but it lacks their satiric edge.
The late Tommy Ramones' drumming was as key as any component in the band's makeup.
Darker Shades of Red focuses on the Soviet Union's creation of internal propaganda, its array of striking posters aimed at keeping those in the homeland and the occupied territories in line.
Since then, they have remained as indefatigable as ever in terms of writing, recording, and touring.
In Third Person , the characters are so intentionally mysterious that, oddly, the surfeit of enigma denies them any depth of personality.
Begin Again is a film with considerable flaws and strengths. The later include stellar performances by Mark Ruffalo, Catherine Keener, and Hailee Steinfeld.
If drummer Ginger Baker's staring into the abyss, he's doing it with defiance and a good beat.
Lift explores so many divergent issues that it would have been easy for the filmmakers to only give lip service to problems it raises. Thankfully, that is not the case.
Even given the over-the-top wish-fullfillment of the film's plot, Escapement's weak dialogue and lack of subtlety proves to be its ultimate undoing.
The beauty of this documentary is that even as it makes you laugh, the story's essential sadness remains. Though it is very fast-paced, the film makes you stop and think -- it's as unsettlin…
Echo's Bones is a fascinating immersion, somewhat inept in its means, but sincere and gravely serious, in a subject that Samuel Beckett made increasingly his own.
"It was an unusual time in music when the-powers-that-be were very hands-off. They left the art to the artists."
Classic rock (which is really a radio format, not a musical genre) is a strange animal, which has spawned an audience that apparently cares more about hit songs and memories than about who's…
May Odyssey Opera continue gracing Boston's opera scene for seasons to come with such delightful performances as this.