Film explores emotion across spectrum


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It’s difficult to say whether grief or love is the greatest emotion one can experience. Both are overwhelming, full-body sensations that tend to linger long after the damage is done. So it’s no surprise, then, how one can replace the other over time. In The Greatest, a character-driven family drama that premiered at the 2009 […]

It’s just science


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Following FBI scientists as they investigate strange occurances, Fringe premieres season three and fills some gaps between unanswered questions from last season.

Weekend Picks


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thursday, april 1 Soweto Gospel Choir 8 p.m. > Carpenter Performing Arts Center > $40 The double Grammy-winning ensemble harmonizes its native South African languages between the members’ 26 voices. The group will be performing songs from its new CD, Grace, and have been known to perform hits from The Lion King. “Comedy Is Dead” […]

First foray into filmmaking needs work


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Don McKay is writer/director Jake Goldberger’s feature film debut. The independent film premiered almost a year ago at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival and is finally getting a wider release in Los Angeles, New York and Boston this week. Starring Thomas Haden Church (Sideways), Elizabeth Shue (Leaving Lost Vegas) and Melissa Leo (Frozen Rivers), the […]

Online postings can botch potential jobs


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Everyone has heard the warning: Don’t put images or statements online that you wouldn’t want potential employers to see. Now more than ever, companies are checking the public online profiles of prospective new hires. So if you upload that incriminating photo from your friend’s 21st birthday party or Tweet a nasty comment about a former […]

Science behind organic is underripe


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You’ve probably seen them at Ralphs: those cool cats who slink up to the register and don’t bat an eye when their bill costs three times as much as it should. And when they slide past, they give you a superior smirk — you and your bag of conventional oranges. Like Scottish accents, everything’s sexier […]

New Nicholas Sparks adaptation is almost touching


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Nicholas Sparks’ novels are formulaic, simple and cheesy, but girls love them. Adaptations of Sparks’ novels have the potential to be transformed for the screen into an epic love story, like The Notebook, but they can just as easily fizzle out into Razzy-worthy trainwrecks. The movie version of The Last Song was a giant “almost” […]