“Trolls Band Together” is a glitter-encrusted variety pack of a movie. Packed with millennial boy-band humor, sibling love and snippets of pop songs, the third film in the Trolls franchise is an explosion of color tailored to a new generation of parents and their Gen Alpha kids. An advance screening was attended by what appeared […]
Review
Hunger Games prequel sings an edgier tune in ‘Songbirds & Snakes’
For all of their young-adult sheen and PG-13 restraint, the Hunger Games movie adaptations tend to triumph when they avoid sanding off the source material’s sharper edges. As envisioned by novelist Suzanne Collins, the dystopian realm of Panem – where combatants between the ages of 12 and 18 engage in an annual fight to the […]
Classical review: Portland orchestra evokes warmer times and climes with ‘Symphonic Seasons’
The performance Sunday was led by guest conductor Tito Muñoz.
A new book explains how to read the natural landscape
Step 1, biologist Noah Charney writes in ‘These Trees Tell a Story,’ is to slow down.
Teju Cole abandons plot and reaches new heights
‘Tremor’ poses existential questions while demonstrating just how different a modern novel can look.
Art review: Formation of art and memory on display at Portland gallery shows
Three artists show their approach to form at Greenhut Galleries, while 82Parris holds a group show called ‘Vestige.’
‘Priscilla’ a dreamy but stultifying portrait of an American princess
There’s a scene in the middle of “Priscilla,” Sofia Coppola’s biopic of Priscilla Presley, which contains a surreal detail that had to have been at least one of Coppola’s sparks of inspiration. Priscilla (Cailee Spaeny), heavily pregnant, has gone into labor. As her husband, the King of Rock and Roll, Elvis Presley (Jacob Elordi) rushes […]
Theater review: Mary Shelley’s struggle takes center stage in ‘Anonymous’
Local playwright Kevin O’Leary tells the story of the young author and mother.
A poet offers an intimate, meandering picture of rural life in Maine
Baron Wormser’s memoir, ‘The Road Washes Out in Spring,’ was reissued in March. Its sharply observed, compassionate vignettes of his own off-the-grid life and the lives of those around him endure.
A passionate argument for the necessity of functioning infrastructure
Deb Chachra’s ‘How Infrastructure Works’ is a perfectly timed entreaty to rethink the systems that make modern life possible.