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  • Recommended Film: NELLY & NADINE (directed by Magnus Gertten)

    Poster of 'Nelly & Nadine' documentary featuring two women with butterflies.
    By Dale Reynolds | June 11, 2023
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    Nelly & Nadine  is the unlikely love story between two women falling in love on Christmas Eve, 1944, in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Despite being separated in the last months of the war, Nelly and Nadine manage to later reunite and spend the rest of their life together. For many years their love story was kept…

  • Extras | Film: CAN YOU WATCH A 3D MOVIE WITHOUT GLASSES?

    By Dale Reynolds | June 1, 2023
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    With the release earlier this year of  Avatar: The Way of Water, 3D movie viewing has become a major talking point again. While audiences tend to love 3D films, they’re generally not quite as enamored with the glasses that are required to get the effect. This has led many people to question whether it’s possible to…

  • Theater Review: 1776 (National Tour)

    Logo for the musical '1776' featuring bold red numbers and a colonial emblem.
    By Dale Reynolds | April 16, 2023
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    2023 COMES TO 1776 The founding of the United States of America has always been largely misunderstood, even by its own citizens. Fifty landowners got together in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and debated for two years on the efficacy of declaring a rationale for Independence; they needed sensible reasons for breaking away from the mother country, Great…

  • Theater Review: TAMING THE LION (Theatre 40 in L.A.)

    By Dale Reynolds | July 18, 2021
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    I’M JUST A DANDY LION Homophobia may still be somewhat of a problem in today’s entertainment arenas, but it isn’t nearly as chaotic for queer artists who, nine decades ago, had to go undercover (so to speak) in order to continue with any kind of meaningful livelihood and/or physical safety. And that affected actors the…

  • Theater Review: UNRAVELLED (Global Brain Health Institute / UC San Francisco / Trinity College Dublin)

    By Dale Reynolds | March 11, 2021
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    BOLÉRO: BEAUTIFUL SYMPTOM OF A TERRIBLE DISEASE FOR BOTH PAINTER AND COMPOSER Based on true events and incorporating research and interviews conducted by playwright Jake Broder as a Hellman Visiting Artist at UC San Francisco’s Memory and Aging Center, UnRavelled explores the fascinating connection between the work of Canadian painter Anne Adams (1940–2007) and French…

  • DVD Review: MISS FRIMAN’S WAR | FRÖKEN FRIMANS KRIG (MHz Series, 2013-2017, on DVD and Streaming)

    By Dale Reynolds | August 30, 2020
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    MISS FRIMAN’S FRAUGHT FREEDOMS ARE FINE AND FANCIFUL Set in the first decade of the 20th century, this enjoyable and amusing Swedish drama concerns the challenges facing stalwart women’s rights activists in the capital, Stockholm. Although this well-written and beautifully series (twelve episodes in four seasons, all in one collection) is about Swedish women and…

  • DVD/TV Review: CAPTAIN MARLEAU (MHz Choice)

    By Dale Reynolds | August 22, 2020
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    BENEATH HER GOOFY GUISE, MARLEAU IS UNMATCHED There are a slew of quality police series, especially coming from Europe. But rare is the show with a goofy lead character, and this fine series has the kookiest lead you’ve ever come across. Capitan Marleau (Corinne Masiero), somewhere in her advancing middle-age, solves crimes in her own…

  • DVD Review: COUNTRY MUSIC (Ken Burns, PBS)

    By Dale Reynolds | July 28, 2020
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    GOOD FOR THE COUNTRY Documentarian Ken Burns is one of the giants in his field. His many subjects (Jazz, Baseball, The Civil War, The Vietnam War) mark his maturity as an artist. His latest foray, Country Music, is planted right up there among his best work. At sixteen hours (on eight discs), this exhaustive wrap-around…

  • Film Review: 15 YEARS (directed by Yuval Hadadi)

    By Dale Reynolds | April 24, 2020
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    A CRISIS OF NORMALCY Israel, in spite of its ultra-orthodox religious influences, is a fine country for LGBTQ rights. And its film industry has certainly proven it with some outstanding pro-gay films: (Yossi &  Jagger [2002], Walk on Water [2004], The Bubble [2006]). Now it has another winner in a thoughtful and entertaining examination of a…

  • Theater Review: JULIUS CAESAR (Warriors for Peace at the Hudson Theatre in Hollywood)

    By Dale Reynolds | December 18, 2019
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    HAIL, CAESAR! Shakespeare’s 1599 history play has, of course, had many lives – conservative as well as wildly interpretive – which has kept the slain Dictator of Rome in the forefront of our histories. Some directors have kept to the known facts as imagined by the Bard, and some have modernized it for contemporary comment….

  • DVD Review: AGATHA CHRISTIE’S CRIMINAL GAMES [LES PETITS MEURTRES d’AGATHA CHRISTIE] Season One (MHz Releasing)

    By Dale Reynolds | December 11, 2019
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    NIFTY CHRISTIE MYSTERIES As clever as Agatha Christie (1890-1976) was in her now old-fashioned writing (no vulgar words or on-page violent deaths), contemporary film makers have a difficulty in making her plots relevant to our more brutal and vicious times So, in the French tradition of Maigret, six of Christie’s novels have been adapted to…

  • Theater Review: JITNEY (Mark Taper Forum)

    By Dale Reynolds | November 30, 2019
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    A JOYOUS JITNEY The late August Wilson (1945-2005) was a truly great American playwright, the most prolifically produced African-American playwright of all time. Jitney, now at the Mark Taper Forum until December 29, was his last play of his “Century Plays” to be produced on Broadway (winner of the 2017 Best Revival) but was the…

  • DVD Review: DETECTIVE MONTALBANO (IL COMMISSARIO MONTALBANO), Episodes 33 & 34 (MHz Releasing)

    By Dale Reynolds | November 21, 2019
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    JUST WHEN YOU GO TO LEAVE, THEY KEEP PULLING YOU BACK IN Dang! but this show has legs. Set in a gorgeous seaside town in Sicily, this quality cop-show, featuring the ever-young Detective Salvo Montalbano (now in his 50s) who fights murder in his section of the country with an individualistic crack team. These two…

  • DVD Review: THE BASTARDS OF PIZZOFALCONE (Season One, MHz Releasing)

    By Dale Reynolds | November 21, 2019
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    CITTí€ BY THE BAY Set in the hilly part of the bayside city of Naples, Italy, Pizzofalcone was once a flourishing center of power and money, but is now a rundown, dangerous sector of the third largest city in Italy, after Rome and Milan. So, when police detective Inspector Giuseppe Lojacono (an arresting [!] Allesandro…

  • DVD Review: THE TEAM (Season One, MHz Releasing)

    By Dale Reynolds | September 17, 2019
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    ON THE SAME TEAM When countries cooperate in art, it can make a huge difference in the joint quality of the work.   Such is the strength behind a superior television series, The Team, a soft title for such a hard-driven police-procedure eight-episode package. Tightly written (mainly by Mai Brostrøm and Peter Thorsboe) and impeccably directed…

  • DVD Review: GRANTCHESTER, Season 4 (PBS)

    By Dale Reynolds | September 15, 2019
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    A CHANGE OF FAITH Well, apparently there will be a Season 5 of Grantchester, a safe but superbly made series about a local parish priest in the fictionalized version of a real rural community in the southeast of England, just south of Cambridge. This season, number 4, is set in 1956, continuing its gentle ride…

  • Los Angeles Theater Review: FRANKENSTEIN (A Noise Within in Pasadena)

    By Dale Reynolds | August 22, 2019
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    ENDURING THE MONSTER Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) wrote her famous “ghost story,” Frankenstein, in 1818, while on a vacation on Lake Geneva with her husband, the poet Percy Shelley, the explorer Lord Byron, and Dr. John Polidon. It was a gloomy summer and these Romantic poets each wrote a Gothic story of some kind to…

  • Theater Review: EARLY BIRDS (Moving Arts)

    By Dale Reynolds | August 21, 2019
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    EARLY BIRDS GETS THE BIRD The phrase “early bird” generally denotes someone who is an early-morning riser or who shows up anywhere early, words usually attributed to the elderly. In Dana Schwartz’s light comedy, two senior women — one rich, one middle-class poor — find themselves on the first day of an ocean voyage beating…

  • DVD Review: LES MISÉRABLES (PBS, 2018)

    By Dale Reynolds | August 3, 2019
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    C’EST MAGNIFIQUE Boy-o-Boy!!! When Art is flung in your face, you best wear it rather than wash it off for, if nothing else, your long-range emotional sake. This latest iteration of Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel about the struggles of the1830s archconservative French government’s effect on the disenfranchised sections of the country, especially concerning the life…

  • DVD Review: THOSE WHO KILL [DEN SOM DRí†BER] (MHz Releasing)

    By Dale Reynolds | August 2, 2019
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    DARKNESS IN THE LIGHT Here comes the Danish version of the newly named “Scandi Noir” or “Nordic Noir,” a genre of crime fiction set in the Scandinavia countries of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Greenland (although the last one is run by the Kingdom of Denmark); this genre would seem to reflect the nature…

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