Like many other programmers last year, Out On Film executive director Jim Farmer had to make a sharp, Covid-compelled pivot, turning the annual, 11-day LGBTQ fe...
THEATER
Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, premiering Thursday at Synchronicity Theatre, tells the story of an 11-year-old Black girl in small-town Ohio in 1940 ...
NETFLIX | The Chair
At the end of the enjoyable/infuriating first episode of The Chair, I let out a little gasp when I saw the closing credit: directed by Dan...
When The Atlanta Opera bravely nudged into the thick of Covid to resume, safely, live performances, the double bill they chose last spring -- The Threepenny Car...
The opening moments of SWEET TOOTH (Netflix, eight episodes) may make you think, “Too soon?” As they follow their everyday routines, people of the world start s...
Atlanta-based filmmaker Amber McGinnis directed an indie dramedy that pinged underneath most people’s radar two years ago. But I thought International Falls, wh...
In the Heights, the loud, sweaty, exuberant street party we’ve been waiting 18 months to enjoy, hits like, yes, the refreshing blast of an open hydrant on a hot...
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD (Amazon, 10 episodes) is like a symphony. Even the greatest symphonies can have thrilling passages that blaze their way into our memori...
The influences on Amazon Prime’s THEM (10 episodes) are obvious. Take a smattering of the horrors of Lovecraft Country, the national racist history at the core ...
In his later years, Arthur Conan Doyle became a spiritualist and séance devotee, but the author’s most famous creation, the hyper-rational Sherlock Holmes, didn...
