Like many people, I’m only now returning to in-person shows after 18 months finding other means of distraction. In a typical example, I went down…
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Category: Reviews
Annette (dir. Leos Carax): Film review
The most exciting thing about ANNETTE is the way it breaks the formal rules of a musical, most notably in how it begins and ends its songs.
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The Tomorrow War (dir. Chris McKay): Film review
When the film embraces its B-movie vibes, it rocks extremely hard. It’s when it takes itself too seriously that it ends up coming across as silly.
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My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To (dir. Jonathan Cuartas): Film review
A film which will stick with you long after it ends.
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THE SPARKS BROTHERS (dir. Edgar Wright): Film review
Perhaps the most wonderful thing about the film is how welcoming it is to new fans.
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EVENTIDE (3AM Theatre): An impressive showcase
A visually impressive showcase of professional circus talent held together by a thin plot of romance, heartbreak, and redemption
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HELIOPAUSE (Circadium School of Contemporary Circus): Where I end and you begin
If this is the future of American circus, we have a lot to look forward to.
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The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (dir. Michael Chaves): Film review
A disappointing entry in the Conjuring canon
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In the Heights (dir. Jon M. Chu): Film review
The musical which first put Lin-Manuel Miranda on the map gets a cinematic treatment
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Army of the Dead (dir. Zack Snyder): Film review
More so than anything else, ARMY OF THE DEAD is a great piece of entertainment
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Adverse (dir. Brian Metcalf): Film review
It’s not the plot that resonates once the credits roll — it’s the characters.
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Oxygen (dir. Alexandre Aja): Film review
This solid thriller had reviewer Dan Scully clenching his clenchables much harder than he expected
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The Mauritanian (dir. Kevin Macdonald): Film review
The Mauritanian is very worth watching, but it feels like it exists just a few years too late.
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RESILIENCE (Pennsylvania Ballet): A moment to breathe
More than one year has passed since the first lockdown was declared in Philadelphia due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It has affected everyone’s life in…
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Wrath of Man (dir. Guy Ritchie): Film review
WRATH OF MAN, the British gangster-heist-revenge film from Guy Ritchie, is a legitimately great movie
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Mortal Kombat (dir. Simon McQuoid): Film review
It’s never easy to adapt a video game to film, mostly because the fun of a game is typically not the plot, so much as…
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ZOO MOTEL (Theatre Exile): Checking in to the Zoom room
Catches perfectly the quarantine vibe of feeling isolated, alone, and somehow simultaneously overexposed
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Godzilla vs. Kong (dir. Adam Wingard): Film review
This clash of the titans is absolutely wonderful to behold
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NOBODY (dir. Ilya Naishuller): Film review
If someone told me that the cinematic trend kicked off by Liam Neeson in which a middle-aged gentleman with a certain set of skills has…
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CRISIS (dir. Nicholas Jarecki): Film review
Crisis does for the opioid crisis what Crash attempted to do for race relations in America.
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