It’s hard to believe LudoNarraCon was already a week ago. Yet, here we are, having come away from the celebration with a lot more than we started out with. As […]

Not every heartbreak comedy has to be wacky and over the top. Sometimes, it’s okay to play it low key and focus on character. Taking on a rare lead role, […]

In William Brent Bell’s Separation, there’s a Brooklyn couple who fights constantly in front of their 8-year-old daughter Jenny (Violet McGraw). One day, when Jenny is hurt playing in the attic while […]

In Limbo, Omar (Amir El-Masry) is an oud player (it’s a stringed instrument; look it up) born in Syria and currently living on a remote Scottish island where he waits […]

This is an odd, although not entirely unpleasant, one. Anson Mount plays a professional assassin known only as The Virtuoso (in the credits, at least; I don’t think he’s ever […]

There could easily be a sub-genre in the field of the dramatic arts devoted exclusively to stories about drug addiction. In recent years, especially in the era of an opioid […]

Because my maternal grandfather was in the Navy during World War II, he was naturally drawn to the early novels of the late Tom Clancy, whose spy thrillers are often […]

Things Heard and Seen, based on the novel by Elizabeth Brundage, All Things Cease to Appear, is the latest work from the writing/directing team of Shari Springer Berman and Robert […]

More venues are opening up now with limited capacity, shows scheduled for the near future, and a new normal may be happening soon. But as we said in the one-year […]

I think the first time I took the mantle of dark lord to stop adventurers and would-be plunderers was way back in 1997 with Dungeon Keeper. Since then, I’ve taken […]

There was a time in my life where I got sick of platformers. But as I’ve gotten older, I’ve learned to appreciate a good, challenging platform experience. Games like Super […]

It could be a sign of aging on my part, but I seem to have lost my patience for films about young people running around causing general mayhem and screwing […]