SUBMITTED BY DAVID CANFIELD “Brooklyn” is a masterful exercise in restraint, spare and funny and without a false note to ring. It builds, it reaches and it moves, flowing with a disarming balance of indie spunk and dramatic sweep. Powered by writer Nick Hornby’s…
SUBMITTED BY SARA MINEO Dust swirled around the two crowned men standing in the center of the battlefield, their swords raised. It is the year 1314, and the King of the Scots Robert the Bruce, has led his army in the first battle of Scottish…
SUBMITTED BY DAVID CANFIELD A journalistic slow-burn in the vein of “All the President’s Men,” “Spotlight” sacrifices sweep for realism, and glorification for nuance. In tackling the Boston Globe’s revelatory reporting on the Catholic priest child molestation scandal, director Tom McCarthy provides an investigation of…
SUBMITTED BY DAVID CANFIELD On the surface, Sean Baker’s electric new movie “Tangerine” should predominantly appeal to the niche-preferring moviegoer. The film centers on a pair of transgender* prostitutes, but favors a profanity-laced realism over something more erotic or suspenseful. It's talky and contemplative and…
SUBMITTED BY DAVID CANFIELD By and large, today’s best television comedies slash through jokes, deftly balancing humor with thoughtful drama. There’s a melancholy undercurrent to the blistering satire of Netflix’s animated “BoJack Horseman,” while “Transparent,” Amazon’s family comedy of manners, finds texture through its…
SUBMITTED BY MILES ITON AND GIULIA HEYWARD When Stephen Hawking told the world that philosophy was dead five years ago, there was an outcry. Hundreds of thousands of people came out in defense of a body of work that questions phenomena in a way…
SUBMITTED BY DAVID CANFIELD Andy Daly’s ruthless critical satire “Review” is the latest to join Comedy Central’s niche half-hour lineup. In its two years on-air, the series has delivered inconsequential ratings and an enthusiastic cult following, and might be less mainstream than anything we've seen…
SUBMITTED BY David Canfield “I’m more drawn to our dead than I am to our living.” Start to finish, the dramatically precise “Phoenix” takes its every cue from this encompassing, chillingly recited line of dialogue. Director Christian Petzold fuses Hitchcockian tension with classical noir for…
SUBMITTED BY Monica Cross New College of Florida’s Windmill Theatre Company presents nightnight at 8 p.m. September 24th and 25th, at 8:30 p.m. Saturday the 26th, and at 2 p.m. on Sunday the 27th at the New College Black Box Theater, on campus. This piece…
SUBMITTED BY DAVID CANFIELD In his new HBO miniseries “Show Me a Hero,” David Simon (“The Wire”) turns academic debates over subsidized housing into six gripping hours of historical fiction. Adapted from Lisa Belkin’s eponymous nonfiction book, “Hero” takes the action back to the late…
