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'The Five-Year Engagement': To Wed, Or Not To Wed?By Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
12:10PM / Thursday, May 03, 2012 | |
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by Michael S. Goldberger
Universal Pictures Jason Segel and Emily Blunt star in the rollercoaster romantic comedy, "The Five-Year Engagement."Filmmaker Nicholas Stoller's "The Five-Year Engagement" humorously and sweetly reminds that of all the folly we foment in this human existence, few pursuits are more profound with sheer, dizzying, bedeviling joy than love and marriage. 'Tis the masks of comedy and tragedy put into full play by no less a wily director than Mr. Cupid himself. Accepting that premise, the engagement period is essentially the dress rehearsal, a time to tweak your lines, adjust your characters, delve their 0 Comments
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Pittsfield Gears Up For Anime Invasion at BAMConBy Joe Durwin, Special to iBerkshires
09:00PM / Tuesday, May 01, 2012 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire County will host its first ever full-scale weekend anime convention at the Crowne Plaza hotel this Friday through Sunday, May 4-6, in what organizers hope will be a unique new annual happening.
The first annual Berkshire Anime & Manga Convention (BAMCon) is the product of the Berkshire Anime Club and sponsor MediaCrash, with support from sponsors both local and niche, from Bespoke Costuming, Brix and Hot Harry's to Genki Life magazine and How To Save The World comic.
Genre celebrities, screenings, a dance, costume contest, and a diverse range of panels and workshops are featured in the three-day lineup, along with a dealer's room for vendors, art 0 Comments
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'Salmon Fishing In The Yemon': A Fine CatchBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
11:12AM / Thursday, April 26, 2012 | |
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by Michael S. Goldberger
CBS FILMS Sheikh Muhammed needs Dr. Alfred Jones's help to import salmon to Yemen. Director Lasse Hallström's "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen" reminds me how much I enjoy the regaling of someone's passions. In this case it's a rich sheik's love for salmon fishing and the similarly enthused ruminations of the Scottish piscatorial expert who joins him in a venture that makes for one whale of a fish tale, if you'll pardon the reference.
My interest is a tad selfish, part vicarious, part vindicating. It matters little the passion. Sit me next to a numismatist on a bus, waxing ecstatic about the 1909 S VDB Lincoln 0 Comments
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Music Video About the '413' Goes ViralStaff Reports,
09:18AM / Tuesday, April 24, 2012 | |
 This caught our eye this morning on Masslive.com: A story about "Dr. Westchesterson's" hip hop paen to the awesomeness of Western Mass.
Since dropping on YouTube last Friday, the catchy "413" has gone viral with nearly 58,000 hits.
Dr. Westchesterson claims to have fled Portland, Ore., after dispensing medical marijuana and now spends his time with select patients and working on his music career. He also says he graduated from Agawam High School ("Shake yourself from the senior prom, 'cause I come straight out of Agawam."), which he features in his video along with chillin' at Yankee Candle and shooting hoops at the Basketball Hall of Fame. Also getting 5 Comments
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MCLA Exhibit Features Emerging Artists| 01:56PM / Thursday, April 19, 2012 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts' Gallery 51 will present "Coming up Next! MCLA's Emerging Artists," a group exhibition of the largest class of graduating art majors since the program's inception. The exhibition will open on April 26 and run through May 27.
An opening reception will be held on Thursday, April 26, from 5-7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
"Coming up Next" is the thesis project of nine graduating MCLA art majors. The work runs a spectrum of mediums from photography, collage, drawings and paintings, to fiber arts, scenic art, book arts and sculpture. The artists express a multitude of subject matter, from the 0 Comments
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'The Three Stooges': An Acquired DistasteBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
10:00AM / Thursday, April 19, 2012 | |
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by Michael S. Goldberger
Twentieth Century Fox
Curly, Moe and Larry attempt to save their orphanage in ridiculous fashion.Dr. Halberstoddter, my favorite professor and mentor back at Olde Ivy Film Criticism College, would roll over in his grave if he read my review of the Brothers Farrellys' "The Three Stooges." I liked it. Not in the Facebook sense, but in the way we really liked Sally Field when she won the Oscar. Yep, he'd roll over in his grave... if he were dead. Make sense of that incongruous irreverence and you too might be on the way to enjoying the iconoclastic, so-called lowbrow absurdity that is "The Three Stooges." And 0 Comments
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'American Reunion': No Pie For This MovieBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
10:30AM / Thursday, April 12, 2012 | |
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by Michael S. Goldberger
Universal
Over a decade later the entire gang returns for 'American Reunion.'
"American Reunion," another paltry attempt to cash in on the raunch/nostalgia quotient set in motion by Jim Levenstein (Jason Biggs) and pals in "American Pie" (1999), is a typical example of the one hit wonder that spawns a successful franchise despite itself. It is solely for diehards and others who just can’t seem to get enough grade B soft smut. Save for a few funny scenes wherein veteran Eugene Levy does his shtick as Jim's innocently candid dad, the only thing to recommend this mishmash of retreaded dirty jokes is the 1 Comment
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Wilco Offering 1,000 Tickets to Mass MoCA BenefitStaff Reports,
09:23AM / Tuesday, April 10, 2012 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Those having a Wilco withdrawal because of the absence of Solid Sound Festival this year have a chance to catch them in a benefit performance on Tuesday, July 31.
The band returns to the Hunter Center at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art with 100 percent of the proceeds going to the nonprofit museum. Tickets will be sold by a "name your price" auction and a lottery.
Capacity is capped at 1,000, with general admission and a standing-room only configuration. The benefit is courtesy of Wilco, with additional support from Higher Ground Presents.
"On a different and more intimate scale than Wilco's other New England appearances, this will be a 12 Comments
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'Mirror Mirror': It's All About ImageBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
10:50AM / Thursday, April 05, 2012 | |
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by Michael S. Goldberger
Relativity Media
Colorful characters are integrated into a moral-rich script in the latest rendition of Snow White.
A witty update of the Brothers Grimm rendition of Snow White, what director Tarsem Singh's satiric paean lacks in pacing it nearly ameliorates via elegant design and top-notch production values. And even if Disney's Sneezy and Co. have been replaced by a new gang, Julia Roberts's watershed portrayal of the evil queen is still nothing to sneeze at. In short - no inference to the new dwarves, or dwarfs, depending on personal preference - rest assured your own little ones won't be shortchanged by this latest version of 0 Comments
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Kidspace Embraces Increased Programming| 10:33AM / Tuesday, April 03, 2012 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Kidspace, the contemporary art gallery and art education program, will embrace a new model of operation beginning in June 2012.
The program, run collaboratively by Mass MoCA, the Clark and the Williams College Museum of Art, will feature increased programming at all three museums, a professional development institute for teachers, and a new website designed to share resources. The new Kidspace is designed to meet the increasing demand for arts programs for students in preschool through eighth grade, and to broaden the reach of professional development resources for teachers.
For more information and a detailed schedule, 0 Comments
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