reviews
‘Dark Waters’: DuPont chemical’s toxic profits
December 4, 2019All one needs to know about American corporate capitalism is brilliantly laid out in Mark Ruffalo’s new movie Dark Waters. Big company, in this case DuPont, manufactures toxic nightmare. Results fatal. Cover-up just as scary. Story...
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August Wilson’s ‘Jitney’ set in Pittsburgh’s ‘urban removal’ era
December 3, 2019Ruben Santiago-Hudson and his entire cast merit a well-deserved Bravo for a joyous and revelatory couple of hours of fine-tuned stage work. A more authentic production cannot be imagined.
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‘Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator’: Oh! Kolkata, yogi bare and boo-boos
December 3, 2019As Eva Orner’s chilling Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator contends, Bikram Choudhury—who is now a fugitive from the U.S. but still teaching and cashing in elsewhere—is one of the latest in a long line of figures from...
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Borderline ‘Ivana the Terrible’: A chip off of Dusan Makavejev’s cinematic block
December 2, 2019Shot tongue in cheek, Terrible is 89 minutes of mostly good fun.
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‘Clemency’: Dead woman walking, a capital film on capital punishment
November 27, 2019Alfre Woodard, one of our elder stateswomen of the acting profession, delivers a powerhouse of a performance as the prison warden, Bernardine Williams, Clemency’s main character.
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