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Items by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
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Movie Review | 'Good': Aligning With the Nazis, Blindfold Tightly in Place
Posted: December 31st, 2008, 6:05am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
“Good” is an anemic screen adaptation of C. P. Taylor’s play about a respectable “good German” who passively acquiesces to Hitler’s agenda.
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Movie Review | 'Moscow, Belgium': The Pursuit of Happiness Is a Complicated Affair
Posted: December 19th, 2008, 5:12am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
The steady attention to detail in “Moscow, Belgium” lends it a texture rarely found in films about domestic life.
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Movie Review | 'Scott Walker: 30 Century Man': A Pop Star in Pursuit of the Primal
Posted: December 17th, 2008, 4:35am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
“Scott Walker: 30 Century Man,” is the story of and oracular singer, experimental composer, British-based American expatriate and reclusive cult figure.
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Music Review | Michael Bublé: Bublé Swings, Stomps and Croons (Call Him Responsible, Too)
Posted: December 8th, 2008, 8:04am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Michael Bublé‘splayfully ironic deconstruction of pop-music machismo seemed unnecessary, amusing as it was.
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Movie Review | 'Lake City': Suds, Southern Scenery and Fistfuls of Weaponry
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 4:52am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
When Sissy Spacek speaks her clichéd lines in the mediocre screenplay of “Lake City,” her delivery lends them a resonance that is not in the written words.
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Movie Review | 'Were the World Mine': Puck’s Love Potion, Splashed Across Town
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 4:50am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
“Were the World Mine,” an indie alternative to Disney’s “High School Musical” franchise, is a small, endearing film.
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Music Review | Boz Scaggs: A Voice With Timbre and Topography
Posted: November 12th, 2008, 5:37am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
A tablespoon of blues and two teaspoons each of soft-rock, jazz and traditional pop: that recipe only begins to describe the stylistic ingredients in the music of Boz Scaggs, who opened at the Blue Note on Monday.
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Music Review | Steve Tyrell: Presiding Spirit at Party: Geniality
Posted: November 10th, 2008, 6:43am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Steve Tyrell, a good ole boy from Houston with an aw-shucks charm and an easygoing machismo, began his fourth season at the Café Carlyle last week.
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Movie Review | 'Dear Zachary': A Provocative Story of Loss
Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:45am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
It is impossible not to be fired up by Kurt Kuenne’s incendiary cri de coeur, “Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father.”
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Movie Review | 'My Name Is Bruce': The Evil Dumb
Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:42am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
In “My Name Is Bruce,” a silly horror comedy that only a cultist could love, Bruce Campbell, the star of countless B-movie thrillers, mercilessly spoofs himself.
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Music Review | Lynda Carter: Former Ambassador of the Amazons, Singing the Tunes of Her Muses
Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:36am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Onstage, Lynda Carter, who opened a one-week engagement at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency on Tuesday, blends the confidence of a beauty queen with the attitude of a blues singer.
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Movie Review | 'Passengers': Lost Luggage Is the Least of Their Worries
Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:34am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
“Passengers” is a supernatural thriller so mechanically inept and lacking in suspense that it doesn’t even pass muster as lowbrow Halloween-ready entertainment.
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Movie Review | 'High School Musical 3: Senior Year': Omigosh, Real Guys Love Sports and Musical Theater
Posted: October 24th, 2008, 4:24am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
How lovely the American high school experience might be if it offered even a smidgen of the euphoria in “High School Musical 3: Senior Year.”
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Music Review | Klea Blackhurst and Billy Stritch: A Party Couple Take the Stage to Sing Their Sassy Songs
Posted: October 17th, 2008, 4:48am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Klea Blackhurst and Billy Stritch egged each other on to new heights of exuberance at the Metropolitan Room on Wednesday evening.
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Movie Review | 'Mary': There’s Something About Mary Magdalene
Posted: October 17th, 2008, 4:48am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
“Mary” is a convoluted, hysterical mess of a movie with grandiose spiritual airs and not a drop of humor.
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Movie Review | 'Frontrunners': Running for Office, With Class
Posted: October 15th, 2008, 6:20am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Without forcing comparisons, “Frontrunners” finds parallels between the election at Stuyvesant High and the current national election.
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Film: Final Festival Reels: New Takes on Old Themes
Posted: October 8th, 2008, 4:48am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
What does it say about our culture that “The Wrestler” and “Changeling,” the most prominent American films in the New York Film Festival, are shameless Oscar bait?
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Music Review | Betty Buckley: Hold Those Show Tunes, but Don’t Skimp on Drama
Posted: September 25th, 2008, 4:21am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Betty Buckley has two voices, one quiet and trembling with sensitivity, the other a stadium-size laser beam.
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Music Review | Barbara Carroll: Teamwork With a Fluency in Many Musical Languages
Posted: September 17th, 2008, 4:49am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Barbara Carroll brought poise, elegance, a classical sense of structure and a swinging vigor to her performance at the Oak Room on Sunday.
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Music Review | John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey: A Witty Musical Marriage Riding a Wave of Springy Pop-Jazz
Posted: September 11th, 2008, 6:33am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey, the wittiest, most musically savvy husband-and-wife team in pop-jazz, transformed Café Carlyle into a silk-covered magic carpet that floated up and away to screwball heaven.
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Movie Review | 'I Served the King of England': Hot Dogs to Haute Cuisine, Then Back Down Again
Posted: August 29th, 2008, 5:22pm GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
There is hardly a moment in this film in which you are not aware that its absurdist view of the human condition was shaped by traumatic 20th-century events.
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Music Review | Andrea McArdle: Bet Your Bottom Dollar, She Survived ‘Tomorrow’
Posted: August 18th, 2008, 3:20am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Andrea McArdle, the star of the original “Annie,” comes across as a brassy, garrulous trouper marinated in her new show at the Metropolitan Room.
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Movie Review: A Simple Country Soul Pushed Past His Limits
Posted: August 8th, 2008, 2:18am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
“Red” imagines a world in which good and evil are clear-cut, and absolute justice is worth pursuing despite heavy collateral damage.
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Music Review: Teardrops on Her Pillow? Not for This Torch Singer
Posted: July 28th, 2008, 4:49am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
The singer Lina Koutrakos deconstructs the oldest cabaret cliché in the book in “Torch,” her sagacious new show at the Metropolitan Room.
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Movie Review | 'Baghead': Gabbing, Flirting, Drinking, Missing
Posted: July 25th, 2008, 3:55am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
With “Baghead,” the Duplass brothers have sophisticated radar trained on the undercurrents of contemporary relationships.
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Wistful Singer, Jo Stafford, Is Dead at 90
Posted: July 19th, 2008, 4:19am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Jo Stafford was the wistful singing voice of the American home front during World War II and the Korean War.
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Movie Review | 'Tell No One': Snared in a Dark Labyrinth When His Wife Disappears
Posted: July 2nd, 2008, 2:08pm GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Guillaume Canet’s delicious contemporary thriller “Tell No One” is “Vertigo” meets “The Fugitive” by way of “The Big Sleep.” That is meant as high praise.
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Music Review: Basking in a World Where Anything Goes
Posted: May 31st, 2008, 5:36am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Jeff Harnar completes a four-night tribute to Cole Porter at the Metropolitan Room on Saturday.
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Movie Review | 'Made of Honor': My Best Friend’s Big Fat (Shouldn’t Happen) Scottish Wedding
Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 3:29am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
The romantic comedy “Made of Honor” adds tart satirical flavors to a cotton-candy formula without sabotaging the sugar rush. -
Movie Review | 'XXY': Confronting the Perils of Puberty Squared
Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 3:28am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
The moody, surreal “XXY” explores the world of Alex, an intersex teenager navigating the treacherous emotional and hormonal rapids of uncertain gender. -
Music Review: The Awards Were Long Ago, but the Catchy Tunes Go On
Posted: April 17th, 2008, 2:57am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
At the Cafe Carlyle on Tuesday, it was almost possible to imagine that time had stood still since Christopher Cross's fleeting golden moment 28 years ago. -
Movie Review | 'Young@Heart': Retired, Yes, but Never Too Old to Rock
Posted: April 9th, 2008, 5:32am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
To observe a fluctuating group of about two dozen singers whose average age is 80 perform in the documentary “Young@Heart” is to be uplifted, if slightly unsettled. -
Music Review | Karrin Allyson: Love Songs Without Sighs
Posted: April 5th, 2008, 3:32am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Ms. Allyson and a quartet featuring Steve Nelson on vibes and Rod Fleeman on guitar performed several songs in brisk, moderately percussive settings.