Author: Jay Gabler
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Audiobook Review: Kevin Goetz Shares the Secrets of “Audience-ology”
In “Audience-ology,” Kevin Goetz shares insights from his extensive experience digging into audience opinions about movies.
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Book Review: Ed Ruscha, Nels Cline, and David Breskin make a “Dirty Baby” together
“Dirty Baby” is “muttish and raunchy,” but its dirtiness feels constrained and bitter rather than liberating or glorious.
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Movie Review: “House of Gucci” Is Gloriously Gaudy
Although “House of Gucci” is fun, don’t expect froth. It’s a “Godfather”-scale family saga worthy of its Reagan-era setting.
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Movie Review: Documentary “Julia” Cheers for Child
This is definitely Julia Child 101, but it’s an accessible introduction to the life and work of a culinary pioneer.
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Theater Review: Reimagined “Oklahoma!” Hints America Is Not O.K.
Director Daniel Fish’s radical reinvention of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical shines in a production now touring nationally.
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Theater Review: Theatre Pro Rata Brings Shoulderpads-Era Caryl Churchill to the Crane Theater With “Top Girls”
This accessible, absorbing production is ample reason to pause the endless content stream and check in again with live theater.
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The Real Secret of Madeline Island
Madeline Island is like a leather-bound blank book. It’s a beautiful setting, but the island’s real value lies in the stories you write here.
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Movie Review: “The French Dispatch” Is Sumptuous Storytelling
if you’re walking into a Wes Anderson movie, you should know what you’re getting just as surely as someone cracking The New Yorker.
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Movie Review: “Dune” is a Page-Turner of a Movie
Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” is an engrossing epic, truly a must-see theatrical experience. It’s everything you hope and more.
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Movie Review: “The Last Duel” Heaves with the Weight of Its Purpose
“The Last Duel” has a Me Too point to make, but it knows the points of its battling beefcakes’ literal lances are what it’s really selling.
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“Foundation” S1E4: Into the Mystic
David S. Goyer’s series continues to often feel as if it’s lifted the words but not the music of Asimov’s classic stories.
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“Foundation” Episode Three: Asimov’s Heart, If Not His Plot
The Foundation is entering a series of existential crises, without instruction but with the assurance that somehow things will all work out.