Color and Pomposity
“Waiting for Godot” (directed by Anthony Page), Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece of existential angst, opened at Studio 54 on Broadway this spring with a sparkling cast …
“Waiting for Godot” (directed by Anthony Page), Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece of existential angst, opened at Studio 54 on Broadway this spring with a sparkling cast …
Sometime in the 5th century a farmer sees that he has a problem. He needs to grow enough on a meager plot of tillable land …
Our economic disaster: last summer I was reading about it in Paul MuoIo and Matthew Padilla’s “Chain of Blame.” This year, my nose has been …
A few years ago, Durham’s official greeter put some novelty items on sale – coffee cups, T-shirts, baseball caps, etc. – each bearing the slogan …
Sometimes it takes an outsider to fix what’s wrong, or perhaps to remember what was so right. In 1966, “Star Trek,” the television series, made …
Brutal, intense, and irreverent, the original “Terminator” (1984) was anything but a Sunday School story. And yet, it was one of the best messianic allegories …
“The Soloist” begins in the way that “State of Play” ends: opening credits roll as newspapers are printed, bundled, and delivered. The papers are a …
Like newspaper columnists, film documentarians are always on the look- out for a great story. The difference is, they have to begin filming the story …
“Boorish, bigoted, and borderline pornographic.” “‘Tasteless, trashy, and over the top.” “Big, loud, and brain- . less.” These are the words reviewers are using to …
“State of Play” is a good old- fashioned newspaper thriller in which the curmudgeonly journalist solves the case using wits, not guns. The film is …