Guest Review: This Is A Sublime Masterpiece
DYLAN’S GOSPEL. The Brothers and Sisters. Produced by Lou Adler. Light In The Attic Records. I was in Toronto for the weekend, rummaging through record shops as I tend to … Continue reading
The Journey So Far
THE JOURNEY SO FAR: The Best of Loreena McKennitt. Loreena McKennitt. Quinlan Road Records. That Canada’s vaunted Loreena McKennitt has finally done a “Best of” album is no surprise. Certainly, her library … Continue reading
Fargo
FARGO. Starring Martin Freeman, Billy Bob Thornton, and Allison Tolman. Produced by Joel and Ethan Coen. FX & Netflix. The crossover between big screen and little screen is pretty much … Continue reading
Years of Living Dangerously
YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY. Showtime. It was, for me, an extraordinary night of television. First, there was the fifth episode of deGrasse-Tyson’s “Cosmos” in which he discussed the nature of light, … Continue reading
Cosmos
COSMOS. Fox and National Geographic channels. Neil deGrasse Tyson, Seth MacFarlane, and Ann Druyan. Over 30 million American adults don’t know the Earth goes about the sun. So a reprise of … Continue reading
Mozart In the Jungle
MOZART IN THE JUNGLE. Amazon TV. Directed by Paul Weitz. Starring Lola Kirk, Saffron Burrows, Peter Vack, Gael García Bernal, Bernadette Peters and Malcolm McDowell. Co-starring Constantine Maroulis, Joshua Bell, Bob Dishy … Continue reading
PBS’ Sherlock Is Worth A Long Look
SHERLOCK. A BBC Original Series. Airing on PBS. First, a major spoiler: Sherlock Holmes survived the Reichenbach Fall. The first episode of Season Three of BBC1’s “Sherlock” discusses how he … Continue reading
How To Think Like Sherlock Holmes
MASTERMIND: HOW TO THINK LIKE SHERLOCK HOLMES. Maria Konnikova. Penguin. Really, the question isn’t whether you should think like Sherlock Holmes, but if you would want to. In his acclaimed … Continue reading
Alpha House
ALPHA HOUSE. Created and Written by Garry Trudeau. Directed by Adam Bernstein. Amazon Studios. Supposedly, back in the late 1970s, a woman gained a certain anonymous fame by asking, “How can … Continue reading