Tweedy delivers acoustic re-imagining of Wilco songs
Thursday, 13 July 2017, 16:15
Last update: about 10 years ago
With its paradoxical title, "Together at Last" features Wilco songwriter and lead singer Jeff Tweedy all alone with just his acoustic guitar and occasionally a harmonica. Read one way, the title...
Review: 'A Ghost Story' casts a bizarre spell
Thursday, 13 July 2017, 15:28
Last update: about 10 years ago
A fatal, off-screen car crash interrupts the picturesque, suburban lives of a young married couple in David Lowery's "A Ghost Story," marooning the deceased husband musician (Casey Affleck) in a kind...
Maum suggests we put down our digital screens in 'Touch'
Thursday, 13 July 2017, 15:04
Last update: about 10 years ago
We live in a generation where we view the world through a screen. Most of our professional and social lives are dominated by a laptop, smartphone, digital tablet, or high-definition television. In her...
Willie Nile's 'Positively Bob' is rollicking Dylan
Wednesday, 12 July 2017, 16:15
Last update: about 10 years ago
There are some analogies between Willie Nile and Bob Dylan, like their early career moves to Greenwich Village, extended layoffs (Dylan's motorcycle accident, Nile's record company torments) and...
In 'The Last Knight,' round 5 for the Transformers
Wednesday, 12 July 2017, 15:27
Last update: about 10 years ago
A concussed serenity sets in somewhere in the middle of the ceaseless ballet of metal and machismo in Michael Bay's "Transformers: The Last Knight." Freed of concerns like plausibility or story, you...
Don Winslow's 'The Force' takes graphic look at NYPD
Wednesday, 12 July 2017, 15:04
Last update: about 10 years ago
Don Winslow takes a graphic and gritty look inside the world of the NYPD in "The Force." The complexity of the narrative starts right away, when the reader meets Denny Malone, a NYPD detective...
MADC to Stage Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew
Wednesday, 12 July 2017, 12:09
Last update: about 10 years ago
As all the world's a stage, so San Anton Gardens will once again be transformed into a theatre for the Malta Amateur Dramatics Club's annual Shakespeare performance. In fact, rehearsals are...
ZZ Ward shows her gale-force talents on 'The Storm'
Tuesday, 11 July 2017, 16:14
Last update: about 10 years ago
You'll hardly find ZZ Ward described the same way twice. Bluesy, pop-inflected, drawing from the deep well of R&B, indebted to hip-hop, folky, alternative indie and rocker - take your pick and...
Giant pig movie 'Okja' gives us a lot to chew over
Tuesday, 11 July 2017, 15:26
Last update: about 10 years ago
Just in time for summer comes a film that seriously threatens the core component of barbeques, baseball games and block parties. To be blunt, "Okja" may force you to put down that hot...
Didion revisits the past to illuminate the present
Tuesday, 11 July 2017, 15:02
Last update: about 10 years ago
What is it they say about famous writers? They could publish their grocery list and it would be a best seller? "South and West" is not a grocery list, but a slim book consisting of excerpts...