Tapas at the revived Grafton Street Pub
The old Grafton was a high-ceilinged, open space with large-screen TVs over the bar; the new one has a cozy, library-like ambiance that says scotch, cigars and informed academic discourse – vintage Harvard, if you will – but a solid menu with small plates that will delight, especially when it comes to shellfish.
‘Jurassic World Dominion’: Ending on overdrive for a series makers could have just left in ‘Park’
The latest dino theme park installment tries to do too much with too little. It’s not so much that it’s too long – okay, at two and a half hours, it is – but that it tries to weave two franchises into an unnecessarily complex plot that has world-hopping aspirations as well as deep-creviced conspiracies. We get cool new CGI dinos to gawk at, but little else.
Umami Bowls with roasted chicken at Shy Bird
The main item Shy Bird offers is half and whole roasted birds (you see them slow roasting as you get your waitlist number at the host stand) as well as a ranch-fried chicken sandwich that looks juicy and sinful. In its Umami Bowl, fried or roasted chicken is listed as an extra … but you should consider it mandatory.
Watch some AANHPI Heritage Month selections, rewatch ‘Wild Bunch’ in 70 mm and ‘Emergency’
These looks at what’s on screens in the coming week include selections for Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Heritage Month and The Brattle’s “Reunion Week” as well as the Somerville Theater returning Sam Peckinpah’s “The Wild Bunch” to its full size, more “Hard Boiled Double Feature” and the dark new Amazon romp “Emergency.”
‘Men’: Escaping trauma and engendering horror
“Men” is an all-consuming cinematic experience at the intersection of paganism and Christianity, religious sexual repression and gender oppression. If his film doesn’t say much that’s new about men and women, director Alex Garland still pushes the boundaries in finding ways to say it.