Leslie Bridgers is the features editor for the Portland Press Herald, overseeing coverage of arts, entertainment and culture. She spent 10 years as a reporter, half of that time for the Portland Press Herald, covering the western suburbs of Portland, writing feature stories and working on special projects. Originally from Connecticut, Leslie came to Maine by way of Bowdoin College and never left.
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PublishedMarch 7, 2021
‘Coming 2 America’s’ Jermaine Fowler became a comedian because of Eddie Murphy – now he wants to make a name for himself
Fifteen years have passed, but the blank page is still seared into Jermaine Fowler’s memory. As an adrift student at Northwestern High School in Hyattsville, Maryland, Fowler was reluctantly filling out college applications when he faced an essay prompt about outlining his ambitions. His brain froze, and his eyes welled up. “I realized,” he says, […]
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PublishedMarch 7, 2021
Keanu Reeves on the joy of writing his first comic book: ‘Why not? That sounds amazing!’
It was the fall of 2017, and Keanu Reeves had been carrying around a character in his head. The actor so associated with portraying a phalanx of dark-clad fighters kept envisioning a world-weary warrior whose birth predated even human language. Who knows, he thought, this character just might be a future film role. But that […]
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PublishedMarch 7, 2021
Two wives are drawn together by an erotic undertow in the ultimately frustrating ‘Affair’
An interesting but ultimately frustrating struggle between form and content animates “The Affair,” an attractive but inert drama set in Czechoslovakia amid the most pivotal events of the 20th century. Hanna Alstrom and Carice van Houten play Liesel and Hana, best friends whose relationship possesses an undeniably erotic undertow, even after they’re both married. In […]
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PublishedMarch 1, 2021
Indie Film: Cinemagic theaters may have lacked charm, but their closure is still a loss
The pandemic has exposed the vulnerability of movie theaters.
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PublishedMarch 1, 2021
Bar Guide: Pair your next book with a Maine author-inspired cocktail
These combos are perfect for your next Zoom book club meeting.
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PublishedFebruary 28, 2021
Andra Day astonishes as Billie Holiday in Lee Daniels’s maddeningly uneven biopic
Andra Day delivers an astonishing breakout performance as the complicated subject of “The United States vs. Billie Holiday,” in a movie that often feels like it’s unworthy of both the actress and the persona she adopts so seamlessly. From the first moments of this maddeningly uneven film, Day channels her complicated, contradictory protagonist with closely […]
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PublishedFebruary 28, 2021
Opioid-epidemic drama ‘Crisis’ misses the mark
“Crisis,” an attempted thriller about the opioid epidemic, unfortunately doesn’t bring the experience home. The movie is a multiple-narrative look at the misuse of the likes of fentanyl, oxycodone and heroin that, according to HHS, afflicted more than 1.6 million Americans in 2019. It’s a raging epidemic exacting a dreadful human toll, but “Crisis” doesn’t […]
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PublishedFebruary 28, 2021
Art review: Portland Museum of Art’s 2020 exhibit is probably as good as virtual gets
There are still some things missing from the experience, compared to in-person, but there are others gained from the online presentation of ‘Untitled, 2020.’
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PublishedFebruary 28, 2021
‘The Vigil’ a efficiently creepy horror film rooted in Jewish lore
Horror films often offer catharsis, but rarely are they also as deeply sorrowful as Keith Thomas’ “The Vigil,” a horror film based in Jewish faith and culture. Dave Davis stars as Yakov, a young man in Brooklyn struggling to establish a secular life, having left the Orthodox Jewish community after a traumatic experience. One night, […]
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PublishedFebruary 28, 2021
Possible result of an upended Oscar season? ‘It might be the purest … and strangest’
A vast sub-industry of activity to influence Academy voters and other award givers has gone as dark as movie theaters during the pandemic, adding even more mystery to which films emerge as contenders.
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