Content warning: This article discusses addiction.Addiction is the ultimate disruptor, ruining not only the lives of those who immediately suffer from it but everyone who encounters it, forever snarling life’s supposedly linear path. In “Beautiful Boy,” father David Sheff (Steve Carell) is left ...
It’s seven on a Saturday, and after two or three hours of trying, I’ve finally managed to get a good mope going. There’s no experience so aesthetically palpable as a real good mope -- lying back on the velvet fainting couch you lifted off the sidewalk, hand across your forehead, hastily cobbled-together ...
"It’s a 20-year-old album, what the f***? On one hand, it’s cool that it’s held up,” lead singer and guitarist of the Goo Goo Dolls Johnny Rzeznik said to a packed audience at the House of Blues on Wednesday night.“On the other hand, it’s like, ‘You’re old Johnny, what the f***?’ ...
The weekend of Oct. 5 was no ordinary weekend for Somerville. Over the course of three days, activists and musicians from around the world descended on Davis Square for the yearly HONK! festival, a lively combination of music and activism.Since HONK!’s inception 12 years ago, the event has provided ...
Content warning: This article discusses violence.The most underrated quote from NBC's "The Office" (2005–13) comes from Robert California, as he muses on Halloween: "Fear plays an interesting role in our lives. How dare we let it motivate us? How dare we let it into our decision-making, ...
British director Paul Greengrass first gained mainstream recognition in 2004 with “The Bourne Supremacy.” The frenetic, rapid-cutting, unsteady camerawork of the Bourne series — somewhatderided by some critics as “shaky-cam” filmmaking — came to define action movies for the remainder of ...
Growing up black in Dublin, Ireland, Rejjie Snow (whose real name is Alexander Anyaegbunam) has always occupied an unusual vantage point. His musical style is no different. It is hard to categorize Snow's music: an eclectic mix of hip-hop and jazzy rhythms bedazzled by fragments of his own life. ...
On a recent trip with my film class to the Somerville Theatre, one of my classmates noted that we hadn't been asked for our IDs, something that she said normally happens to her, upon purchasing tickets for the R-rated movie we were planning to see. And in a cliché turn of events, the absence of ...
And as "Last Seen" continues its own investigation, it becomes clear that the FBI's findings may not quite add up: Bobby Gentile, the man who the FBI thought of as "their guy," is surely a person of interest, but there's no clear evidence that he had anything to do with the heist itself. He has accepted two jail sentences for separate crimes, and neither time did he answer questions about the Gardner heist in order to receive a reduced sentence.
The October box office has a history of under-performing releases, often mired by overdone horror movies in honor of Halloween. Prior to this year’s record-breaking“Venom” release, “Gravity” (2013) held October’s highest opening weekend, followed by a line of horror films, including most ...
Zachary Hertz (ZH): For our JumboCash-only readers, we’re reviewing oven-reheated mozzarella sticks from Tufts’ own Commons Marketplace. The album title could also describe the people in this room — Good Charlotte’s “The Young and the Hopeless” (2002). And our young and hopeless guest, Petrina ...
Hollywood has produced many ambitious movies about the perils of space travel over the past five years, including “Gravity” (2013), “Interstellar” (2014) and “The Martian” (2015). How, then, can a movie about Neil Armstrong ever hope to stand out at a filmic moment already so fixated on ...
From his early childhood, Ryan Gosling has been destined for the big screen. Gosling rose to prominence after his time on the Disney Channel’s star-producing show, “The All-New Mickey Mouse Club” (1989–94), and arguably has never left the spotlight since then. With his role as Neil Armstrong ...
Recently, I’ve been experimenting with background movies. The idea is fairly self-explanatory — a movie played in the background of a party, social gathering or just when sitting around alone, crying. The movie isn’t intended to be watched; in fact, the point is to not watch it. Of course, the ...
“F*** it up, Boston!” The crowd erupted into a cheering and screaming frenzy surrounded by the chaotic blasting of white lasers as 23-year-old Australian pop star Troye Sivan leaped across the stage in preparation for his next song. Sure enough, Boston lived up to Sivan's expectations in the ...
Boston has a large contingent of Italian immigrants dating back to the late 1800s, and the cultural footprint of Italians in Boston is still quite strong. In the North End, Italian restaurants line the narrow streets, with city-dwellers and tourists alike looking for their favorite eats. It is only ...
Harvard University's Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts is currently showing "Time is Now: Photography and Social Change in James Baldwin's America," a multi-artist photography exhibit running through Dec. 30. The exhibition highlights facets of African-American life in the north ...
Only four episodes into its third season, "The Good Place" (2016–) already feels back in form. Despite the setting change to Earth, the gang of Chidi, Eleanor, Jason and Tahani all seem to be their normal, albeit idiosyncratic, selves. Our protagonists have a number of short-term and long-term ...
After a successful first edition last October, the Boston Art Book Fair (BABF) is back in full force, with numerous events spanning the course of this weekend. The BABF promises to attract visitors of all ages and artistic backgrounds with fine art, radical design, independent artists and galleries, ...
Contemporary artists know no boundaries among mediums. In their hands, paintings become sculptures, and ordinary objects become art. Indeed, not even the more artisan-oriented medium of textile has escaped being stretched beyond its conventional materials. The current tapestry exhibition at the Isabella ...
