19 stories by "Steve Murray"
The annual film festival returns with 11 days of screenings, presentations, filmmaker Q&As and special appearances. :: "I'm Still Here," the anthem from Stephen Sondheim's musical Follie…
Tyler Perry is back in the gray wig and long housedresses for Madea's Destination Wedding. :: Steve Murray's monthly musings on TV in Atlanta and beyond. Starring Atlanta's Danielle Deadwyle…
Echo Valley doesn't earn its talented acting ensemble; Mountainhead overestimates our tolerance for fabulously wealthy tech bros. :: Steve Murray's monthly musings on TV in Atlanta and beyon…
Shekar puts a spotlight on tough choices where you can feel the pain & struggle in Miriam A. Laube's beautifully directed ensemble here set in Nina Ball's exquisite honeycombed set.
Armbruster uses the mysterious 1926 11 day disappearance of Agatha Christie as her base plot, and smartly adds in a parallel time-shifting component which adds a double mystery. Director Gio…
Every fall I bug him about themes he sees emerging organically in...
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In the Heights, the loud, sweaty, exuberant street party we've been waiting...
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The influences on Amazon Prime's THEM (10 episodes) are obvious. Take a...
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A coin toss decided which of two Netflix limited series should top...
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Standing on the platform of a gray Tokyo train station, 40-something Setsuko (Shinobu Terajima), like many of the other commuters crowded around her, is wearing a sanitary paper mask over he…
The Square is named after the latest installation at a prominent Stockholm contemporary art museum: a square space mortared into the other stone bricks in the museum's forecourt. The plaque …
As the teenaged Cory (Jovan Adepo) tries to walk around his father on the porch steps, he says, "You're in my way -- I gotta get by." It's an on-the-nose description of generations of father…
When his actor father Brian (Greg Kinnear) takes a role in a small New York production of The Seagull, 13-year-old Jake (Theo Taplitz) notes that he's broken a vow to act only in Broadway sh…
As the first African-American woman named a principle dancer by American Ballet Theatre in its 75-year history, Misty Copeland has a story worth telling. Too
You might think it's hard to care too much about a couple of gorgeous, hard-bodied, workout-obsessed people like Trevor (Guy Pearce) and Kat (Cobie Smulders),
You have to give credit to writer-director-star Pif (aka Pierfrancesco Diliberto) for ambition, even if his blend of comedy, romance and true-life tragedy doesn't totally
Ballet 422 is the kind of arts documentary I like to sink into. It's a cinema verité immersion into the lonely yet collaborative process of
It's an ironic title, The Way He Looks. There's a couple of questions buried in it. That becomes clear, anyway, once you learn that the
If you're like me, you approach the topic of Israeli-Palestinian relations with the apprehension of someone actually, physically crossing a border into the shrapnel-pocked and
