Author: Steven Strauss
The Theatricality of Reality’s Surreality
In case yesterday’s esotericism didn’t make this clear, let me state simply for the record: Steven Soderbergh’s Unsane is my favorite movie of 2018 thus far.
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The Surreality of Reality
Steven Soderbergh’s Unsane is a Kafka-esque, capitalist nightmare for the iPhone age, injected with Brechtian aesthetics to convey the 21st century’s pervasive, conflicting distortions of reality sitting in our pockets every day.
This Week in Music
J. Cole’s KOD won’t be included in this roundup because I’ve got more to say about it than would be appropriate for these brief snippets.
Pros, Cons, and the Art of the Show
It’s considered a faux pas in critical circles to suggest how a show could improve.
RAMPAGE (Brad Peyton)
Rampage commits the same critical mistake as so many of these sorts of movies: too much of the humans, not enough of the big bad monsters.
“Original” Scores
For a movie or show to be nominated for Best Score at the Oscars or Tony (or any other offshoot) Awards, the music written for it must be predominantly original.
2018’s SHOOT IT STRAIGHT INTO MY FUCKING VEINS List — March-April
I’ve been feeling some withdrawals of late, so time to shoot some more of 2018’s catchiest songs into my (fucking) veins!
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Adam Rapp’s THE EDGE OF OUR BODIES (TUTA Theatre @ 59E59)
To adequately express the extremity of their ardent adoration for a particular performer, theatergoers often fall back on the following familiar formulation:
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