At the beginning of director George Miller’s bitter, thrilling film “Furiosa,” the latest installment of his decades-long “Mad Max Saga,” a couple girls are picking peaches in a lush green…Continue Reading →
“Billy Ruane walked into the room and he said, ‘I need an extra room for my birthday party. I think I overbooked it,’” Joseph Satar, co-owner of Cambridge’s Middle East…Continue Reading →
“The Last Repair Shop” is an astonishing, tender, heartbreaking, inspiring look behind the scenes at the expertise and love that the craftspeople of the instrument repair shop for the Los…Continue Reading →
A blaze at the hospital where his mother works awakens a young boy. The boy, Mahito Maki, runs through the streets to the fire, but his mother perishes in the flames.…Continue Reading →
In the new documentary, “Fiddler’s Journey to the Big Screen,” Norman Jewison recalls how he was offered the chance to lead the film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical “Fiddler…Continue Reading →
What will be the legacy of our dependence on plastics made from oil, natural gas or coal? That question is at the heart of Robin Frohardt’s puppet film “Plastic Bag…Continue Reading →
Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar’s gorgeous, haunted and excellent film “Parallel Mothers” begins as Janis (Penelope Cruz) has affair with a married forensic anthropologist, which lands her in the hospital maternity…Continue Reading →
Wes Anderson’s latest film, “The French Dispatch”—finally arriving in theaters after a year and a half covid delay—is a wistful comedy nostalgic for the end of an era—well, two eras—the…Continue Reading →
From my article in Dig Boston: “I’s sick O Massa hans all ova me.” So begins Ifé Franklin’s 2018 book “The Slave Narrative of Willie Mae” (Wildheart Press). “This book…Continue Reading →
In the upcoming Netflix movie “Fatherhood,” Kevin Hart plays a widowed father in Boston coping “with doubts, fears, heartache and dirty diapers as he sets out to raise his daughter…Continue Reading →