Arts & Entertainment Reviews

Rocky Balboa is back except now he’s a bit older, a bit slower and taking more of a back seat in Creed.

Glamorous Damage is one giant intergalactic trip where synthesizers are fused together with laser beams and 80’s glam rock - over the top theatrics wrapped in glitter and sequins.

As the show progresses, surfaces get stripped away and daubed with swirls of lipstick and blood.

The Subjects, which has been billed as an "anti-superhero" film, is a smart and original deconstruction of the tropes of superheroes and superpowers.

Pop music is the new rebellion. Shiny synths and danceable rhythms are the new electric guitar, sending uptight squares running in terror.

The characters wheedle and stutter and spit out their lines, adopting the postures and gestures of their emotions and relationships. They often speak their lines to one another while facing the audience, as if we are the mirror in which they can see one another.

If one were to stow one’s cynicism in a safe place for the duration of the film’s relatively brief runtime, Freeheld does reveal some warm and emotionally gripping performances and a genuinely touching narrative.

Divers, the latest work from the Californian harpist and singer seems like the first time we are truly seeing who Joanna Newsom is.

“RENT at Hayes Theatre Co feels like an inevitability,” says producer Toby Francis.

Many of the songs on VEGA INTL. Night School would sound equally appropriate on a crowded dance floor or soundtracking a wistful Sofia Coppola movie.