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Much Ado About Nothing is certainly the most amiably nihilistic play ever written and is most appositely titled....With every exchange b...

Old Hats is a delightful vaudeville from master clowns Bill Irwin and David Shiner with music by Nellie McKay (dir. Tina Landau).  It...

Out of the Past (1947, dir Jacques Tourneur).  A man (Robert Mitchum) tries to escape his past (Kirk Douglas) but a femme fatale (Jane Gr...

A Hello Kitty lunchbox, a ziplock bag containing what first appears to be a volume of In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, some lette...

Noel Coward, Alec Guinness, and Burl Ives in Graham Greene's Our Man in Havana .  Political satire on Cold War spying, it was released...

A guy places an ad because he wants a companion for time travel.  A magazine picks up on it and sends a team to write a story on him.  Saf...

Neva , by Chilean writer and director Guillermo Calderon, is about making drama in the context of revolution.  It is set in 1905, when the...

Simon Curtis's My Week With Marilyn (2011) starring Michelle Williams and Kenneth Branagh is a failed exercise based on the memoir of...

Tennesse Williams 1955 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof still plays as strong and relevant in the current Broadway revival with Scarlett Johansson, ...

I have actually finished three books in the last two weeks, started two more (the new Oliver Sacks - Hallucinations - and a review copy of ...

Mary Queen of Scots (1971) suffers from a turgid, 1970s script, some wooden acting from Patrick McGoohan and Daniel Massey, however the ...

Dr. Patricia Fara , historian of science at Cambridge, bemoans in Nature today the role biographers have played in reinforcing stereotyp...

There is a good critique on how the popular press hypes social science research in The American Scholar : The Allure of the Counterintuitiv...

The Met's new Parsifal directed by Francois Girard, with beautiful sustained singing, precise rich playing from the orchestra, and...

Having just read Robert Massie's vivid biography Catherine the Great , we got Josef von Sternberg's very loose film adaptation of...

 Philippe Jaroussky singing Ohime, ch'io cado by Claudio Monteverdi  Hat tip: The Ragazzo

Amber Dermont's much-talked-about novel The Starboard Sea (St. Martin's Griffin, 2012) begins when a wealthy, intelligent teenage...

A university-educated musicologist (the passionate Janet McTeer) goes 'up the mountain' to collect the authentic folk music of...

Meryl Streep and Jim Broadbent are wasted on The Iron Lady (2011) dir. Phyllida Lloyd. The film tries desperately, if not to portray Mar...

I fell over a review of Ali Smith's Artful (The Penguin Press, 2012) by happenstance this past week, thought it sounded interesting, ...