David Loebel, the second of four conductors vying for the post of music director, led the Atlantic Classical Orchestra in a familiar but adventurous program at the Eissey Theatre on Feb. 10. It was the first evening concert in the series and seats were filled. Was it because it was a light orchestral program of five music gems or that concertgoers prefer the nightlife that … [Read more...]
‘No Escape’: Not-so-innocents abroad in manipulative dreck
I’m disgusted to report this, because it tends to give the film some visceral credit, but there are scenes in No Escape that made me squirm like few other films in recent memory. Director John Erick Dowdle films his story of a family under siege in Southeast Asia with the kind of gut-wrenching, intestine-squeezing terror more often associated with underground horror flicks. It … [Read more...]