Ninian Doff's feature debut is an amusing spin on 'The Most Dangerous Game,' bolstered with rowdy comedy, rap music and drugs.
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Theater Review (NYC): ’55 Shades of Gay: Balkan Spring of Sexual Revolution’ – a Kosovo Burlesque
Harking back to the 20th-century theatrical avant-garde, the LGBTI-themed political burlesque '55 Shades of Gay' from Kosovo reminds us of the endurance of homophobia.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka’ by Tori Sampson
Exploring what it means to be beautiful, this vivid show inspired by a West African fable lenses familiar passions and traumas into high relief.
Read More »SXSW Music Festival 2019: Preview (March 11–17, Austin, Texas)
Broken Social Scene and Japanese Breakfast are among the thousands of performers scheduled for South by Southwest Music Festival 2019 in Austin, Texas on March 11-17.
Read More »‘Blogcritics’ – An Appreciation
Thinking about my many years here at 'Blogcritics.'
Read More »SXSW 2019 Preview: Film, Music, Culture and Faster, Maybe
As SXSW enters its 33rd year, the event promises to be bigger, more exciting, and include changes to the mechanics to make it easier and faster to get to the events you want to see. SXSW began as a music festival, added film, then just kept growing. If it’s inspiring, …
Read More »Music Review: Our Native Daughters – ‘Songs of Our Native Daughters’
'Songs of Our Native Daughters' from Our Native Daughters is as rich and textured, and fraught with violence and emotional turmoil, as the history of Africans in the West.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Random Acts’ Written and Performed by Renata Hinrichs
Atticus Finch is on Broadway, but 'Random Acts,' Renata Hinrichs' penetrating and much more intimate evocation of our racist history, is just six blocks downtown.
Read More »Software Review: Cinema 4D R20 Studio from MAXON
Cinema 4D R20 from MAXON is one of the most impressive motion graphics software releases in recent years.
Read More »Supreme Court Eases Armed Career Criminal Act Test for ‘Violent Felony’
The high court ruled that a state-law robbery counts towards triggering the mandatory 15-year sentence enhancement under the “three strikes” provision in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA).
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