Everything is Nothing, Nothing is Everything

On January 15, 2024January 15, 2024 By Steven StraussIn 570 Channels (And Everythin's On)Leave a comment

The Curse achieves what I like to call Infinite Interpretability.

Cursive

On January 12, 2024January 15, 2024 By Steven StraussIn 570 Channels (And Everythin's On), Remember All the Movies, Terry, We'd Go SeeLeave a comment

Remember the slew of new documentaries — and May December — that explore what happens to someone’s personal life when artists come to town to adapt their existence into art?

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The Music of Making Music

On January 10, 2024January 7, 2024 By Steven StraussIn 570 Channels (And Everythin's On), Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY Lights, Remember All the Movies, Terry, We'd Go SeeLeave a comment

There’s an art to making music.

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The Iron Curse

On December 20, 2023December 22, 2023 By Steven StraussIn 570 Channels (And Everythin's On), Remember All the Movies, Terry, We'd Go See1 Comment

Both the new movie The Iron Claw and the new TV series The Curse share a distinct cinematographic trait:

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On the Direct-to-Netflix Highway(men)

On April 1, 2019May 7, 2019 By Steven StraussIn 570 Channels (And Everythin's On), Remember All the Movies, Terry, We'd Go SeeLeave a comment

With The Highwaymen, Netflix returns to its FPFP roots: Faux-Prestige FacePlants.

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FUTV

On August 28, 2018September 5, 2018 By Steven StraussIn 570 Channels (And Everythin's On), Remember All the Movies, Terry, We'd Go SeeLeave a comment

Conformist cultural commentators on the interwebs like to boast about how TV’s toppled film in recent years.

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Parsing the Career of Jim Parsons (Briefly)

On June 22, 2018June 25, 2018 By Steven StraussIn 570 Channels (And Everythin's On), Boogaloo Down BROADWAY, Remember All the Movies, Terry, We'd Go SeeLeave a comment

Jim Parsons is finally turning into a good actor!

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New Group in the Square

On March 23, 2018March 30, 2018 By Steven StraussIn 570 Channels (And Everythin's On), Boogaloo Down BROADWAY, London Calling, Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY LightsLeave a comment

In an age dominated by nonprofit theatre companies taking over Broadway houses —from Roundabout’s conquest of the Sondheim to Second Stage’s brand-spanking-new ownership of the Helen Hayes — the New Group should move into the Circle in the Square (once its current tenant, Once on this Island, closes).

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