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Film Review: LOONEY TUNES: THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP (Directed by Peter Browngardt)
DUCK, COVER, AND TRY NOT TO THINK TOO HARD A loving homage to Bob Clampett that never quite matches the originals When I first heard about Looney Tunes: The Day the Earth Blew Up, my immediate reaction was, “Oh no, why would they make a Porky and Daffy feature for today’s audiences? There is no…
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Film Review: SNOW BEAR (Aaron Blaise, Director)
A HAND-DRAWN MIRACLE IN ELEVEN MINUTES Aaron Blaise’s polar bear short is funny, heartbreaking, and impossibly beautiful I have a gift for you today: an animated short called Snow Bear. And I have to tell you, this is something pretty special. I’d call it… WOW!!! You will laugh. I did. You will cry. I did…
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Film Review: THIS ORDINARY THING (Directed by Nick Davis)
LIGHT IN A WORLD GONE DARK This Ordinary Thing — a documentary that doesn’t feel like one ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ “Whoever saves one life, saves the entire world.” This quote from the Talmud — the book of Jewish wisdom — underpins This Ordinary Thing. Going in, I knew…
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Film Review: BAU: ARTIST AT WAR (Directed by Sean McNamara)
Amidst the terror of the Holocaust, could Bau: Artist at War actually be the feel-good movie of the year? I attended the world-premiere screening of Bau: Artist at War on Sunday—and I feel compelled to share it with you. Directed by Sean McNamara and written by Deborah Smerecnik, Ron Bass, and Sonia Kifferstein (with Joseph…
Film & Album Preview: SARA BAREILLES: GOOD GRIEF (Documentary directed by Josh Alexander)
by Connor McCormick | August 18, 2026
in Albums, Film, ToursOff-Broadway Review: CAT COHEN: BROAD STROKES (Lucille Lortel Theatre)
by Paola Bellu | August 18, 2026
in New York, TheaterOpera Preview: A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT (Opera Montana in Bozeman and Missoula)
by Gregory Bernard | August 18, 2026
in Regional, TheaterTheater Review: ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (Coronado Playhouse / Coronado / San Diego)
by Milo Shapiro | August 18, 2026
in San Diego, TheaterTheater Review: DALLOWAY: FIRST LOVE (Gloucester Stage Company)
by Lynne Weiss | August 17, 2026
in Boston, Theater



