It seems like director Deon Taylor might be the only filmmaker actively keeping the mid-budget adult thriller alive in this age of extinction. Plus, he’s prolific: His topical corrupt cop drama “Black and Blue” is his second 2019 film, arriving just a few months after his surprisingly entertaining and campy home invasion horror thriller “The […]
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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Review: ‘Harriet’ gives Cynthia Erivo the star turn she deserves in an overall acting triumph
Cynthia Erivo knows how to make an entrance. In “Harriet,” her first starring film role and one she signed for before she had any big screen experience at all, the British actress galvanizes the proceedings as Harriet Tubman, a figure of rescue and resistance so legendary she is scheduled to take her place on the […]
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Theater review: Good Theater’s ‘Boxes’ suspenseful, fun and thought-provoking
The show is likely to engender some interesting conversations on the trip home from the Munjoy Hill venue.
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‘Midway’ is a big, old-fashioned war movie, with one thing missing: human beings
Military authenticity isn’t a problem in this movie.
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Edward Norton loosely adapts part-time Mainer’s beloved novel ‘Motherless Brooklyn’
The movie is based on a book by Jonathan Lethem, who spends time in Maine.
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Scorsese’s ‘The Irishman’ dismantles the myths the filmmaker helped create in movies like ‘Goodfellas’
‘The Irishman,” Martin Scorsese’s long-gestating gangland epic, starts off with a bittersweet inside joke: A long tracking shot – one of the director’s bravura signatures – that threads the audience, not through the labyrinthine hallways and kitchens of the Copacabana, but an old folks’ home, where the film’s protagonist, Frank Sheeran, can be found ruminating […]
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Art review: DesignInquiry’s overwhelming show has a welcoming core
Think of ‘Futurespective’ as a library of ideas about design.
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Sense of empathy, kindness floats over ‘Sesame Street’ set
The show is celebrating its 50th anniversary.
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‘Goodness and humor’ celebrated as ‘Sesame Street’ turns 50
Fifty years ago marked the debut of a TV show that would make history, ‘Sesame Street.’
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Deep Water: ‘Woods Omen,’ by Richard Sewell
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.