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Selma: Human Intuition, Positioning, Timing – Now Just as Then

Selma is a movie not a documentary. It is a finely crafted film about human conflict and racial tension. For the most part Selma does not fall victim to presenting its main participants in grossly exaggerated characterized form; instead it reveals them as human beings (with understandable faults and weaknesses) trying to navigate life based […]

Unbroken – Competent, Measured, Distant and Uninspiring

Unbroken the movie – the story of Louie Zamperini based on the book by Laura Hildebrand (Seabiscut) – has all the right ingredients.  However, despite all of the resources available Angelina Jolie’s 2nd directorial effort while competent and hitting all its production marks – feels too measured, distant and ultimately uninspiring. It should be […]

The Pitch and Octave Are Spot On – Lend Me a Tenor

The NexStage (Ketchum, Idaho) production of a farcical comedy that is all about everything falling apart pulls all aspects together – the result being highly entertaining, funny and thoroughly enjoyable.

Lend Me A Tenor is all about the folly that can be life when expectations and desires are misaligned, misunderstood and misrepresented.  Set in […]