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Bill & Ted Face the Music, The New Mutants, David Copperfield, Fatima, Class Action Park and more
Editor's Note: Epidemiologists have stated that patronizing indoor movie theaters should be considered a high-risk activity at this time. Bill & Ted Face the Music **1/2
Nearly 30 years after their last cinematic adventure, Bill S. Preston Esq.
Desert Noises Release Everything AlwaysIt’s rare for a band to take a six year gap between albums, let alone a young and ambitious one filled with promise like Desert Noises was when they released their 2014 debut 27 Ways.
Couch Concert for Kids, Women of Rock 'n' Roll and Shit Jewelry Houseless Outreach
Mundi Project Brings Another Concerts on the Couch
The Mundi Project has been keeping plenty busy this summer as they work to keep young music-learners busy and enthused by music.
The One and Only Ivan, Tesla, Unhinged, Train to Busan Presents Peninsula and more
Editor's Note: Epidemiologists have stated that patronizing indoor movie theaters should be considered a high-risk activity at this time. The August Virgin ***1/2
A narrative about a “third-life crisis” could easily come off as self-indulgent, but Jonás Trueba’s sparkling Spanish drama finds deep humanity in a contemplative pace and a wonderful central performance by Itsaso Arana (who co-wrote the screenplay with Trueba).
Fans of the Great American Songbook will find rewarding entertainment in this upcoming treat from the Clara Campbell Quintet, a night of jazz assisted by many of her musical family members—counting three other Campbells, to be exact.
Project Power, Sputnik, Boys State, Happy Happy Joy Joy and more
Boys State ***1/2
If you’re looking to the future in hope that we can emerge from politics that are exclusively about preserving power into a focus on real issues, directors Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss have some hard truths to serve up to you. They spend a week at the 2018 Boys State in Texas, an annual gathering of high-school seniors with the ostensible goal of teaching them about governance, party politics and “civil discourse,” on the way to electing some of them to office.
An American Pickle, The Burnt Orange Heresy, Howard, She Dies Tomorrow and more
An American Pickle ***
The absurdist premise in Simon Rich’s script—a Jewish immigrant in 1919 New York, Herschel Greenbaum (Seth Rogen), is accidentally preserved in a pickle vat before being revived a century later in modern Brooklyn—is dispensed with early on in a hilarious scene where journalists ask “What’s the science behind it?” and Herschel assures us that the explanation we never hear “satisfied everyone.” The film that follows becomes sort of a satirical mash-up of Austin Powers and Being There, as Herschel and his great-grandson Ben (also played by Rogen) become first friends, then rivals. The Eastern Europe-set prologue offers so many solid laughs that it’s almost disappointing when the contemporary plot kicks in, and leans into a few obvious culture-shock gags.
