Del Toro as Pinocchio Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio ★★★ (out of 4 stars) Father-son dilemmas, individualism, Fascism, meditations on death…
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The War to End All Wars All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues) ★★★1/2 (out of 4 stars)…
Let’s take these one at a time. Since WICKET closes after this weekend we’ll start with that. THE BASICS: WICKET…
The Quiet Movie The Quiet Girl ★★★1/2 (out of four stars) In the decade since the publication of Susan Cain’s “Quiet,”…
THE BASICS: THE MAI, a play by Marina Carr, directed by Josephine Hogan, presented by the Irish Classical Theatre Company,…
The nominations for Oscars from The Academy of Motion Pictures were released Tuesday, January 24. Buffalo Rising’s Five Cent Cine…
Ten Angry Women It shouldn’t work. Ten women spending the day debating their fate in a barn. “This is boring,”…
THE BASICS: LADY DAY AT EMERSON’S BAR AND GRILL, a musical by Lanie Robertson, directed by Thembi Duncan, with music…
What if death were noise? Bored or stressed. That’s one way to understand the dichotomy at the core of Oscar-nominated…
I remember, therefore I am Jake and Kyra, an inter-racial couple, and their adopted Chinese daughter, Mika, inhabit a modest,…