reviews
Overview of tenth anniversary DOC NYC Film Festival
November 7, 2019The DOC NYC Film Festival has now become the largest documentary film festival in the U.S. It screens over 300 films, including many U.S. and world premieres, and runs for 10 days, Nov. 6-15.
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‘The 7 Stages of Grieving’: An original Aboriginal Australian one-woman show
November 7, 2019As soon as the curtain lifts at the Skylight Theatre, "The 7 Stages of Grieving" kicks off with something most American audiences are likely to have never seen before in all of their theatergoing.
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‘Neil Simon’s Musical Fools’: Everybody plays one sometime, right?
October 16, 2019It is so boisterously silly and good-hearted, and suitable for all audiences, that it is truly worth seeing in times that need a little comic relief.
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HBO’s ‘Chernobyl’: Writer Craig Mazin’s imploding ideological superstructure
July 31, 2019Mazin chose to flog the dead horse of Cold War anti-Sovietism in order to make a statement about global climate change, but “truth” suffers in the process.
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‘The Twilight Zone’: ‘The Blue Scorpion’ touches on gun control and obsession
May 30, 2019Magical Cuban gun puts the spotlight on America's gun obsession - and regulation - in the latest episode.
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