‘Army of the Dead’: We’re off to a Las Vegas heist, but technically it’s impossible to make a killing
In “Army of the Dead,” Zach Snyder delves back into his bag of zombie tricks, and in the process turns the Vegas strip into a hive of hidden horrors counting down to a mushroom cloud.
Comparing cultures in her doc ‘Weed & Wine,’ Cambridgeport’s Cohen found the relationship
Cambridgeport’s Rebecca Richman Cohen presents her country- and culture-spanning documentary “Weed & Wine” on Saturday at the Independent Film Festival Boston. After five years in the making, “in the end, it was about family,” the filmmaker finds.
Visit Central Square Theater virtually Thursday with Marathon’s free, 10-minute ‘Good Mother’
The Boston Theater Marathon XXIII: Special Zoom Edition – free, 10-minute plays by New England playwrights and theaters – brings The Underground Railway at Central Square Theater’s contribution Thursday.
Amazing tequeños at Orinoco Kitchen
What exactly are tequeños? If you embrace the warm, filling comfort of mozzarella sticks with a chunky marinara sauce for dipping, you’re halfway there. But Orinoco’s cheese is a soft, salty, white cow’s milk product from the Guayana region of Venezuela, and it is fried almost tempura light.
Coronavirus edition 62: Musically inclined IFFB, political ‘Human Factor’ and ‘Stowaway’ in space
This coronavirus edition of movies to shelter with includes Week 2 of the Independent Film Festival Boston, full of lively musical documentaries and bleakly absorbing procedurals, as well as DocYard features and new films, from the political “Human Factor” to an unwanted “Stowaway.”
Amanda Gorman-inspired ‘Future Leaders Read’ invites young poets to Starlight stage on Saturday
An Amanda Gorman-inspired “Future Leaders Read: A Teen & Youth Poetry Reading” is planned for Saturday at Starlight Square, with headliner Lizzle4 and plenty of open mic time for youth who want to share.
‘Gunda’: Intimate portrait of a pig on a farm, lingering images you’ll never want to leave
“Gunda” follows the seasonal cycle of a sow on a farm, a “Charlotte’s Web” or “Babe” sans the anthropomorphic cuteness that turns the mundane into a riveting, can’t-turn-away event.
‘Wrath of Man’: Ritchie and Statham reunited, heist with their own petard and angry about it
The main reason to see “Wrath of Man” is to see Jason Statham’s enigmatic antihero with a hidden agenda do what he does best, and that’s pick apart those evading justice with cold, calculating efficiency.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. rejected us in 1890 – but we’re cool with it. See library archives May 13
There are letters from George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Paul Revere and Margaret Fuller in the archives of the Cambridge Public Library, and now one from 1890 by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. – and library staff is delighted, even if the letter itself is a bit of a dis.
The infallible veggie burger at Miracle of Science
I’m ecstatic about getting back to my Miracle of Science veggie burger and a place that’s been home to so many great conversations, meetups and post-game beers, with a vibe that’s endeared and persevered over decades of radical change.
