It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues
If you have the patience to endure its hit-and-miss first act, the Rep’s sure-to-be-popular season-closer It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues (which has already been…
Intermission
"Clean up that sick before someone slips on it." A simple description of the wonderfully entertaining new Irish film Intermission may seem familiar: it’s a…
The O’Conner Girls
”It’s a beautiful set,” Invisible Telle was saying about the comfy (fake) living room packed onto the intimate stage before us. ”Write that down. And…
Eternal Sunshine on the Spotless Mind
I am not a fan of most Jim Carrey movies. The Truman Show and Man on the Moon were good. But The Mask? A task.…
The Passion of the Christ
The Passion of the Christ is the most boring movie I have ever seen. The only reason I didn't walk out is that the film…
Osama
"People always believe their own eyes." Osama is a film intensely aware, at times perhaps too aware, of its place in history. The first film produced…
The Dreamers
"I was one of the 'insatiables'. The ones you find sitting closest to the screen." The medium is the message is the medium is the…
Japanese Story
I love me some Toni Collette. Remember how she sparkled and glimmered in Muriel's Wedding? Or how she stole scene after scene from the bigger…
The Butterfly Effect
You want to see this film like you wanted to hear The Darkness last fall. It's a guilty pleasure, and you indulge and realize it's…
Touching the Void
"If you don't make decisions, you're stuffed." OK, mountain climbing is not for me. There is no damn way I'm gonna use ice-axes and weird…