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Diaghilev at the National Gallery 9 Jun 2013 | 08:09 am
The National Gallery’s new show: “Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes: When Art Danced with Music,” implies that the Russian impresario started something new. To be sure, this highly enjoyable show of co...
Blu-ray Roundup: May in the Park with Criterion 2 Jun 2013 | 12:43 pm
Haskell Wexler’s astounding Medium Cool is a vivid lesson in the importance of style over story. On the page, the film’s narrative is nothing special: a news cameraman (the great Robert Forster) em...
Nightlands Releases “To The Moon” 1 Jun 2013 | 01:44 am
Nightlands, the solo project of Dave Hartley (The War on Drugs) just released a very celestial song yesterday called “To The Moon”. Like many of the songs on his latest album, Oak Island, this so...
CultureMob Giveaway: Win CLEOPATRA on Blu-ray 30 May 2013 | 06:39 pm
Courtesy of the good folks at Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, CultureMob is offering a special giveaway for Cleopatra: 50th Anniversary Edition on Blu-ray. Rather than summarize the plot ...
Theater Review: Fela ! – educating American about Afrobeat and Nigerian politics 30 May 2013 | 10:55 am
A kick-ass on stage band and amazing dancers highlight this overly-earnest attempt to encapsulate the larger-than-life Fela Kuti, a Nigerian musician who became world-famous, both for his creation of ...
Movie Review: HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS Is Enjoyable, If Uneven 23 May 2013 | 09:54 pm
The issue that crippled Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (besides, of course, a January 25th release date that reeked of dumping-ground swill. The movie is much better than “swill,” mind you, but t...
Blu-ray Roundup: Looking at MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO and HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE 17 May 2013 | 08:41 pm
The reason that Hayao Miyazaki is the most beloved animator of the past thirty years is a deceptively simple one: in a genre defined by bombast and pomp (children’s animation), Miyazaki foregrounds ...
‘Through the Looking Glass: The Burlesque Alice in Wonderland’ Titillates the Crowd at The Triple Door 17 May 2013 | 11:38 am
Through the Looking Glass: The Burlesque Alice in Wonderland, now playing at The Triple Door, depicts the classic children’s tale in a way you have never seen it before. It features a cast of some of ...
Movie Review: Brainy and Sexy SIDE EFFECTS Showcases Steven Soderbergh at His Most Playful 14 May 2013 | 07:27 pm
It’s very hard to write about Steven Soderbergh’s deceptive, teasing Side Effects without spoiling what makes the film so much fun; while Soderbergh and his Contagion screenwriter Scott Z. Burns cer...
Stylish ‘Gatsby’ Oversells the Drama 13 May 2013 | 08:12 am
While people continue to lob the “style over substance” critique at Baz Luhrmann, it should be said that the director’s typically flamboyant presentation is not what is wrong with his adaptation of “T...
