Reviews

I sat on the very edge of my seat. Hands clenched on my knees, feet placed as firmly as I could get them on the floor. I could see the gleam of something unhinged in Sir Ian McKellen’s eye, a light sheen...

“Venom” (dir. Ruben Fleischer) stars Tom Hardy, Riz Ahmed and Michelle Williams, and follows journalist Eddie Brock (Hardy), who becomes the host for a sinister alien life form called Venom (voiced by...

If you were to click the first option on the GPS, Fairfield University is roughly 3 hours from my front doorstep. There’s just one problem with that first route — I detest highways. This isn’t any bother...

Icicles reign supreme in the snow and frost of “Frozen” the musical, but so too does the warmth and the humanity of its characters. The most central image of “Frozen” the movie is the icy blue figure...

“White Boy Rick” (dir. Yann Demange) tells the true story of “White Boy” Rick Wershe Jr. (Richie Merritt) and his rise to the top as a hustler, drug dealer and FBI informant, all before the age of 17...

Touching down in Ireland on the morning of September 5 after a red-eye flight, I was greeted by a view of a countryside that resembled a green patchwork quilt. The weather reminds me of a rainy, April day and...

The first time I heard that the hit 2004 movie “Mean Girls” would be turned into a musical, part of me thought it was going to be a flop. However, another part of me, specifically the 16-year-old me that...

When we think of the 1980s, images of Madonna, huge curly hair, leg warmers and movies like “Back to the Future” are what we normally conjure up. However, in the midst of synth pop hits and happy-go-lucky...

Folk, blues and classic. These are three words I’d use to describe American singer and songwriter Chris Smither. Those three words also describe the exact kind of vibe one will be getting from Smither’s...

“That summer I hunted the serial killer at night from my daughter’s playroom,” writes author Michelle McNamara in her first sentence of her true crime novel. Before she starts, McNamara’s work is...