Bob Chipman and Steve Head go over the Boston-area repertory screening scene for July, once again recorded on-location at The Video Underground in Jamaica Plain. LISTEN DOWNLOAD BOFCA REPERTORY PODCAST SEPTEMBER 2016 Posted onAugust 30, 2016bybofca ...
1. Because house music and disco are conceived primarily for the dance floor, does this make them harder to write about than more “contemplative” or “conceptual” forms of pop? MICHAEL FREEDBERG Why should music for the dance floor be “harder” to write about than music “contemplative”...
presumably because they’re not pop enough no matter how many hits they’ve had. But what exactly pop is remains elusive. As a fan of the term, I sympathize — it’s hard to pin down even allowing for sui generis exceptions. So I give Stanley credit for making a pass at it in a ...
Premiering in 2009, Mental was a medical-mystery-drama that managed to cling on for a full season before rapidly hemorrhaging ratings got the better of it. The show’s protagonist, Dr. Jack Gallagher, was like a less appealing version of everyone’s favorite TV doctor:...
KNOCK DOWN THE HOUSE “Compelling as the other stories may be, you kinda can’t help but spend them waiting for [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] to come back onscreen.”–Sean Burns, The ARTery UGLYDOLLS “The characters are nice enough and the songs catchy enough, but the lackluster animation,...
There is plenty of precedent for performers to still earn Oscar nominations after snubs by the Critics Choice Awards, Golden Globes and SAG Awards. Last year, Andrea Riseborough became the latest Oscar contender to come out of nowhere when she reaped a Best Actress bid for “To Leslie.” She...
Dario Argento’s garishly overripe bat-house thriller is an occult head trip whose pleasures are all on the surface. It’s schlock — the giallo film gone grade-Z psychedelic. The story is so threadbare it would have been sent back for a rewrite by Roger Corman, yet that’s part of ...
“Beyond the Valley of the Dolls” and “Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens” made by sexploitation maker Russ Meyer, but never reviewed a Meyer film once they were associated. He also wrote an unproduced screenplay for director Sidney Furie, but said that he did not review any of ...
Let’s get down to business to defeat any notion that this isn’t one of the greatest Disney songs of all time. Yes, there are many racial and gender issues at play — Osmond is providing the singing voice for a Chinese character, and the lyrics deal in a vast array of male and fem...
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