The Works of James Agee, Vol 5 Complete Film Criticism: Reviews, Essays, and Manuscripts edited by Charles Maland Last summer, a few weeks before the Mercury closed as a weekly …
Q&A: Whistle-blower and Tarbell founder Wendell Potter
Wendell Potter’s name has a sharp resonance in Washington. For more than 20 years he was an executive in public relations for Humana and CIGNA, until he went public, first …
Andy Serkis delivers an Oscar-worthy motion-capture performance in the dazzling ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’
I’ll confess up front that, before director Rupert Wyatt’s 2011 reboot, I was never a Planet of the Apes fan. I’m not a detractor of the original cycle of films …
Edgar Wright combines car chases and a pitch-perfect soundtrack in ‘Baby Driver’
In a way, it feels strange to applaud an Edgar Wright film for its originality. The director of Shaun of the Dead and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World has endeared …
New singles from Senryu and Siphon preview upcoming albums
The local indie/art-pop band Senryu has been relatively quiet the last few years, as its frantic workaholic frontman and songwriter, Wil Wright, has pursued other projects, principally the wizard-rap …