Takers is a small but pleasant surprise, an efficient late-summer action-heist film with a tight script and solid performances from an amiable ensemble cast. If it invites but doesn’t quite earn comparisons to Michael Mann’s …
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In the television show Cosmos astronomer Carl Sagan once famously opined that “to truly make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.”
I suppose a Christian corollary would be that to truly …
In a delicate time, when the progressive Russian movement towards nationalism dangerously resembles that of the former Soviet Union, My Perestroika assesses the present and the future of the country by looking into the past …
On more than one occasion during Stonweall Uprising, the gripping and informative new documentary from Kate Davis and David Heilbroner, someone refers to the riots at the Greenwich Village bar as “the Rosa Parks moment” …
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In an age of information glut, the power of certain numbers lies not in their ability to shock us but in their ability to slide by, barely making an impression.
One in four women …
Boston Globe music journalist Geoff Edgers states in his brief and loveable documentary Do It Again, “Pieces of the Kinks are still floating around out there, but we need the real thing.”
It is always tempting in approaching any work of art to reduce things to categorical binaries. In looking at documentaries, especially ones like Google Baby, the temptation is to think of the directorial point of …
