arts and culture
‘Alien: Romulus’ review: Horror and anti-corporate message stay strong in latest franchise addition
August 15, 2024It may be the seventh film of the Alien franchise, but this critic would argue it’s easily the third-best of the entire series.
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‘Sing Sing’ sings out for justice, clemency, rehabilitation, humanity
August 14, 2024The new 105-minute film Sing Sing is about life inside Sing Sing Correctional Facility, perhaps the most infamous maximum security prison in America, perhaps the world.
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Bridging the great cultural chasm: A fractured comic fairy tale of ‘Human Error’
August 13, 2024Beyond our dogmas and ideological differences, we’re only human, and to err is human, while to laugh is divine.
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‘Tartuffe: Born Again’: Molière shows crooks and fraudsters will always be with us
August 12, 2024Can we even imagine a world without crooks, fraudsters, hucksters, impostors, scam artists, snake oil purveyors, narcissists, cheats, grifters and hypocrites? Probably not.
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‘Keely and Du’ takes on Christian nationalism, reproductive rights and kidnapping
August 8, 2024Jane Martin’s 1993 play Keely and Du was a finalist for the 1994 Pulitzer Prize, and years later, in 2018, was turned into a feature film.
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