entertainment
‘Reckoning’ fails to exact a toll
“The Social Reckoning” ⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 2.5 out of 4. When Aaron Sorkin wrote the screenplay to “The Social Network” in 2010, the idea of a glossy biopic about a time-wasting website felt somewhat ridiculous. Nearly two decades into our social media-dominated hellscape, no one is laughing. Read more Digital billboard trucks with October 7 reminders […]
‘Verity’is lifeless on page and on screen
“Verity” ⭐⭐ Rating: 1.5 out of 4. The movie version of “Verity,” Colleen Hoover’s hackneyed page lift of Daphne du Maurier’s great 1938 Gothic psycho thriller “Rebecca,” has an all-star cast that may not be enough to give the romance novelist a fourth box office success. Read more Community, developers have mixed response to new […]
Events this week in Cambridge and Somerville: HonkFest, Arabic heritage celebration and “Practical Magic”‘s Alice Hoffman
For a searchable calendar of events with your choice of list or map view, or to submit an event of your own, go to the main calendar. Read more Young adults in Mass. most likely to enter treatment for alcohol addiction Friday, Oct. 2 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.Various locations at MIT MIT Future Fest$149 for […]
A survival thriller and a crime drama
“Heart of the Beast” ⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 2.5 out of 4. The vast wilds of Alaska are where James Belmont (Brad Pitt) goes to tamp down the PTSD he suffered as a former special ops sergeant, as well as heal the war scars of his loyal German Shepherd Odin, who served with Belmont during multiple Middle […]
Catching predators in the name of fame
“Primetime” ⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3 out of 4. Documentarian Lance Oppenheim (“Ren Faire,” “Spermworld”) steps into the narrative feature-scape with this lurid submersion into the early years of online predation, where chatrooms were used as Venus flytraps to snare underage targets and goad them into real-life meetups. The scummy underbelly, as Oppenheim depicts it in “Primetime,” […]
Events this week in Cambridge and Somerville: Classical music poetry, Meowfest and Lift Every Voice Play Festival
For a searchable calendar of events with your choice of list or map view, or to submit an event of your own, go to the main calendar. Read more North Division sweeps city baseball All-Star tournament Thursday, Sept. 24 6 to 8 p.m.Cambridge Main Library, Rossi Room, 449 Broadway, Mid-Cambridge. Overdose Prevention Kit Assembly eventFree. In honor […]
9/25 is now Dolly Parton Day, featuring her greatest film
Last month the world said goodbye to Dolly Parton, a woman with as valid a claim as any to the title of Most Beloved Public Figure on Earth (she blew away the competition in a survey in March). In addition to her seven-decade recording career, her expansive humanitarian work, and her renowned decency as a […]
Intensity in survival and horror
“The Weight” ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3.5 out of 4. In The Weight,” a muscular, Depression-era survival drama, Ethan Hawke again looms large in small, gritty fare. Hawke brings a lean, tightly wound intensity to a man carrying more than his body— or perhaps his soul — can bear. It’s another powerful performance, after a deserved Oscar […]
Cemetery screenings that don’t scare
On Tuesday and Wednesday, the programmers of the Coolidge Corner Theatre cross the river for the latest installment of Cemetery Cinema, an annual series of double features projected on the beautiful grounds of Mt. Auburn Cemetery. While graveyard screenings are often associated with horror movies, the folks at the Coolidge take a more thoughtful approach, […]
Central Square’s ‘Eleanor’ a Plum production
Central Square Theater’s absorbing and enlightening production of Mark St. Germain’s “Eleanor” opens on a set of benches, panels of greenery, and a projection of a statue called “Grief.” The acclaimed Paula Plum, wearing a dignified dress from an earlier era, steps onto the stage, and we are face-to-face with the embodiment of one of […]