Allen Baldwin believes the 2015 film’s time is yet to come.
Leslie Bridgers
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Leslie Bridgers is a columnist for the Portland Press Herald, writing about Maine culture, customs and the things we notice and wonder about in our everyday lives. Originally from Connecticut, Leslie came to Maine by way of Bowdoin College and never left. She joined the Portland Press Herald in 2011 as a reporter and spent seven years as the paper’s features editor, overseeing coverage of arts, entertainment and food.
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Society Notebook: Saco fitness center hosts cornhole for a cause
The tournament at Evolution Athletix raised money for the Animal Refuge League, which had to cancel its two biggest fundraisers this year.
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Deep Water: ‘Spinnakers,’ by Marcia F. Brown
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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How ‘Love in the Time of Corona’ was filmed amid widespread production suspensions
Early in this strange new reality, back when an end date still seemed to be in sight, many of us reached the same realization: Oh, there’s going to be art about this moment. Poems, paintings, music, literature and, once people figured out how to work safely with others, a deluge of films and television series. […]
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Movie review: A dickens of a ‘David Copperfield,’ with Dev Patel heading up a great ensemble cast
If ever a match were made in cine-literary heaven it would be Charles Dickens and Armando Iannucci, each a master of probing social criticism, slashing wit and floridly besotted love of language. So the fact that Iannucci’s “The Personal History of David Copperfield” is a surpassingly lively and acutely observant flight of fancy doesn’t come […]
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Indie Film: Documentary shows the essential role of ‘Soul!’
PMA Films streams ‘Mr. Soul!,’ about the host of the ’60s Black variety show, starting Friday.
Posted inDo This, Food
Bar Guide: Rock these cocktails with your lobster roll
Seafood restaurants recommend what to drink with the sandwich of summer in Maine.
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Literary fantasy unevenly blends with civil rights era in ‘Lovecraft Country’
The HBO show is visually striking and inventively imagined, even when it gets corny.
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Jonathan Majors is your new American hero
His role in ‘Lovecraft Country’ is ‘presented to the world with dignity and honor and sincerity, (and) will alter the hero’s narrative in general,’ he says.
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Movie review: ‘Words on Bathroom Walls’ is a delicate balancing act
It can be funny and light, but doesn’t seem to treat mental illness with appropriate gravitas.