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Review: 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire'
By George Elkind Freely embracing the erotic core of figurative art, Céline Sciamma's "Portrait of a Lady on Fire" finds Marianne (Noémie Merlant), a working painter, visiting an island estate off the French coast where Hélo√Øse (Ad√®le Haenel) and [...]
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By Romeo San Vicente 'The Book of Ruth' re-opens the book on AIDS Now that the 1980s are officially vintage and the subject of period films, a mini wave of projects about the first decade of AIDS has taken hold: Yen Tan's indie drama "1985," the [...]
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By Romeo San Vicente Beanie Feldstein and other 'Humans' Beanie Feldstein, star of "Booksmart" and the super ambitious 20-year-long Richard Linklater-meets-Stephen Sondheim project "Merrily We Roll Along," and who is also recently [...]
Theatre Nova's 'Apple Season' is a Bountiful Harvest of Emotions
By Kym Reinstadler ANN ARBOR – There's child abuse at the core of Oregon playwright E.M. Lewis's "Apple Season" that's buried so deep it's never spoken. It's through the intimately drawn character portraits of a brother and sister returning for the [...]
Positive Thoughts: I'm a Beautiful Black Queen Living With HIV, Not Stigma
By Porchia Dees I am a Beautiful Black Queen Living with HIV. It has taken a long time for me to come to terms with that statement, because the concepts of beauty and HIV don't usually go together. Growing up poz and trying to cope with the stigma [...]
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By Romeo San Vicente Josie Totah joins 'Saved By The Bell' reboot Now this is news we like: Josie Totah, who gets our vote for funniest, most effervescent young actor, transgender or otherwise (though she is trans), and whom we've admired [...]
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By Romeo San Vicente It's time for more 'Shrill'! First you need Hulu. Then you need to catch up on "Shrill," the wonderfully hilarious sitcom based on essayist Lindy West's book of the same name. The first season is six addictive episodes [...]
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Alan Ball. Photo: KathClick By Romeo San Vicente The Go-Go's documentary of your dreams is here The Go-Go's were among the first punk rockers in Los Angeles, but when the time came to choose Black Flag-style hardcore (they used to play shows with [...]
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By Romeo San Vicente Colin Farrell travels 'The North Water' Andrew Haigh ("Weekend," "45 Years") is busy working on a new limited series, "The North Water." Haigh adapted the novel by Ian McGuire and is directing the BBC four-parter due in [...]
Positive Thoughts: Trans Power
By Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr. Marissa Miller was the lead organizer of the first National Trans Visibility March on Washington, D.C., which took place Saturday, Sept. 28, in the nation's capital. Thousands attended the march down Pennsylvania Avenue, [...]
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By Romeo San Vicente Jodie Foster fights for 'Prisoner 760' Jodie's back, fighting for justice. She's part of the cast of "Prisoner 760," playing a lawyer defending a man who was detained at Guantanamo Bay detention facility without charges for over [...]
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By Romeo San Vicente 'Mrs. Doubtfire' comes to Broadway in 2020 Someone, somewhere, is keeping count of all the movies turned into Broadway musicals. We aren't, obviously, though we {ITAL see} what's going on, and therefore we will call 2020's "Mrs. [...]