January 7, 2019
I saw fewer films of higher quality in 2018, a pretty good year for diversity and imagination at the multiplex despite the repetitive CGI blur of far too many box office hits.
Wild Cards (potentially list-worthy 2018 movies as yet unseen by moi): First Reformed, H...
January 2, 2019
1. BETTER CALL SAUL (AMC)
On one level, there's not really a good reason for this odd duck to exist at all, since it's a Breaking Bad prequel about characters whose fates we (mostly) already know and thus would seem to be the definition of unnecessary. Sure, Bob Odenki...
December 29, 2018
When it comes to live performance, my 2018 was consumed with the creation and promotion of SPECIAL at Theatre of NOTE (a backstage comedy about the the notorious Star Wars Holiday Special on the 40th anniversary of its one and only disastrous broadcast airing) -- a pla...
December 26, 2018
Of the books I read in 2019, three of the best were actually written by people I know, including Strange Frequencies, Peter Bebergal's intriguing exploration of the intersection between technology and the supernatural (from spirit photography and automatons to the lege...
January 7, 2018
Honestly, nothing I saw at the movies this year came close to any two episodes of Twin Peaks: The Return (or even just Episode Eight all by itself) and I won’t have a chance to see The Post (which, unless I’m shockingly disappointed, seems like a Best Of lock) unt...
December 28, 2016
Once again this year, most of the best writing, directing, and acting was on the small screen, as exemplified by my picks for 2016’s must-see TV...
September 25, 2015
So, back in the day, my dad taught some of the children of both Whitey Bulger’s associates and their victims. I also live close to Whitey’s old Winter Hill stomping grounds, and I’m a homer for Boston crime movies in general.
June 18, 2015
On May 19, 2015, The Boston Globe reported that the Cambridge, MA dive bar T.T. the Bear’s Place would be closing its doors for good on July 25th of the same year thanks to a steep rent hike coupled with the fact that the club’s 73-year-old owner Bonney Bouley had alre...
May 14, 2015
The following statement may not stand up to National Institute of Science standards of peer review, but I’m fairly certain it’s 100% accurate: all ladies love Hamm.
March 24, 2015
According to Boston Magazine, the term FoMO (“Fear of Missing Out”) was coined by a marketing strategist back in 2000, but the basic concept has been perfected by the annual South by Southwest festival in Austin, TX. Boasting 145 feature films over the course of ten da...
