In 1967, Twentieth Century Fox undertook an expensive and complicated production of “Doctor Dolittle,” based on a series of children’s books by Hugh Lofting, about a doctor in Victorian England who talks to animals. Starring Rex Harrison, “Doctor Dolittle” was a notoriously doomed production, troubled by quarantined animals, Harrison’s behavior and a budget that ballooned […]
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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Movie review: ‘Bad Boys for Life’ refreshing tribute to ’90s action cinema
After turning in the first two greatly beloved, operatically souped-up action opuses in the “Bad Boys” franchise, everyone’s favorite gearhead maximalist auteur Michael Bay is no longer behind the camera for the third, “Bad Boys for Life” (though he is in front of it, briefly). Not to worry though, as Belgian filmmaking duo Adil El […]
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Posted inDo This, Food
Tap Lines: Blue Ox Malthouse making beer’s unsung hero
The company in Lisbon provides malted grains to breweries throughout Maine and beyond.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Do This
Indie Film: Dance documentary ‘Cunningham’ is invitingly uncomfortable
The movie screens at PMA Films, starting Friday.
Posted inReview
Theater review: Laura Linney stars in ‘Lucy Barton,’ but shines as her mother, on Broadway
The play adapted from Maine author Elizabeth Strout’s novel opened Wednesday in New York City.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Deep Water: ‘Sharpshooter,’ by Julie Poitras Santos
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
The plot to ‘1917’ is simple, but making it was not
Every piece of action and dialogue had to be choreographed down to the second to give the film its real-time sensibility.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Local & State
Society Notebook: History buffs ring in 2020 at Victoria Mansion
The Gaslight League held the New Year’s Eve dance party and fundraiser.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
‘Joker,’ explained: How the movie went from divisive debut to Oscars darling
Critics split over the controversial comic book film, but it cleaned up, both with award nominations and at the box office.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Uncategorized
‘The Irishman’ tells us who killed Jimmy Hoffa
But a lawyer with a secret trove of documents says the movie got it wrong.