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    Glitter Tribe

    Burlesque Theater has been around in some form or enough for centuries. It peaked in England during the Victorian period and were often pastiches and parodies of popular songs and opera arias. By the time a Brit troupe visited NY at the end of the 19th Century New York, burlesque shows soon incorporated elements of … Continue reading

    The Handmaiden

      The celebrated South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook manages to pack a lot of detail into the entire 2 1/2 hours of the erotic and exotic drama of his latest stunning epic The Handmaiden. Park has adapted Sarah Walter’s historical crime novel Fingersmith which was set in Victorian Britain, and transposed to Japanese occupied Korea … Continue reading

    The House I Live In

    The overriding feeling one gets after viewing Eugene Jarecki’s powerfully disturbing prize-winning documentary about the ‘War on Drugs’ is a such a huge sense of denial.  We may not have been aware of every fine line of detail that Jarecki includes in his far-reaching research but we are all aware of the problem to some … Continue reading

    The Last Resort

      Miami  Beach is one of those cities that undergoes enormous transitions every single decade at a pace that is hard to keep up. In the early 50’s this sleepy seaside resort became a popular vacation destination for blue collar Jews who wanted a break from their tough lives in New York.  It later morphed … Continue reading

    The Martian

    Filmmaker Ridley Scott seems to send people into Space more often than even NASA. In this his latest, and most thrilling blockbuster, he has a manned space shuttle land on Mars for a couple of weeks of research but then when the crew have to suddenly evacuate in a hurry, they manage to leave one … Continue reading

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