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Arts & Culture Film
What makes a movie Irish?
May 15, 2025
Questions of Irish identity and “Irishness” are, and always have been, in a state of flux.
Arts & Culture Television
‘Bad Sisters’ perfectly captures sibling bonds and Irish gallows humor
January 10, 2025
Before it is a thriller, before it is a dark comedy, “Bad Sisters” is a love story.
Arts & Culture Film
Review: ‘Saturday Night’ presents a sweeter version of the SNL origin story
October 04, 2024
I approach Jason Reitman’s just released film, “Saturday Night,” with equal parts suspicion and an unwarranted sense of proprietorship.
Arts & Culture Ideas
Comedian Matt Rife’s crowd work depends on marginalized people in the audience in ‘Walking Red Flag’
August 23, 2024
Rife’s humor of the quick, off-the cuff variety is best suited to these more conversational modes of presentation. He is lucky that he has a gift for improvisation and interacting with crowds, because his straight up standup is pedestrian.
Arts & Culture Ideas
What Pope Francis and Stephen Colbert know: Comedy is essential to a life of faith
June 17, 2024
The easiest way through the recognition of our sinfulness is through humor.
Arts & Culture Ideas
‘Challengers’ has made tennis cool again. Can today’s players live up to the hype?
June 07, 2024
Professional tennis in the real world—as opposed to the reel world—is not quite as cool or sexy.
Arts & Culture Film
‘Immaculate’ is not your mother’s nun movie. It’s a feminist convent-horror film.
March 22, 2024
“Immaculate” is a cut above its cinematic cohorts, due in no small part to its decidedly feminist take.
Arts & Culture Ideas
Comedian Shane Gillis doesn’t make a good first impression. But it’s worth sticking around.
February 09, 2024
An audience may not realize that Gillis has something substantive to say about American society, because they are also squirming so much
Arts & Culture Television
Matthew Perry: a friend who gave even as he suffered
November 03, 2023
What do you do when literally the entire world loves you, but not you?
Arts & Culture Ideas
Fathers Colbert, Fallon, Kimmel and Oliver? The late-night hosts who wanted to be priests
October 06, 2023
In the new podcast, “Strike Force 5,” Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel and John Oliver all admitted to a desire for Holy Orders.
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