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'Gangster Squad': An Offer You Can RefuseBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
11:22AM / Thursday, January 24, 2013 | |
 Popcorn Column
by Michael S. Goldberger
Warner Bros. Pictures A typical shoot em' up, director Ruben Fleischer's version of how a special police team was able to rid Los Angeles of gangster Mickey Cohen's megalomaniacal control can't help but dredge up current events. With each firefight and following every vile spate of gratuitous brutality, the American appetite for bloodshed is affirmed. It boggles the mind. So we ponder the same old argument, the bevy of rehashed rationalizations — Guns don't kill people; Hollywood, by its example, kills people. Or does it merely reflect and tacitly 0 Comments
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North Adams Happenings: Jan. 23-29| 09:47AM / Wednesday, January 23, 2013 | |
 North Adams Happenings
EVENT MCLA Presents! 8th Annual Blues and Funk Fest
February 1 & 2
MCLA Venable Gym
375 Church Street
(413)662-5204
7:30pm
$15 Festival Pass for both nights! General Admission $10, MCLA Alumni $8, MCLA faculty and staff and Non-MCLA students $5, MCLA students FREE Click here for the Facebook event. MCLA's Venable Gym gets funky with two nights of dancing, music, and fun! Hip-Hop & Soul legend Maya Azucena headlines night one with MCLA's very own step team, NEXXUS, opening. New Orleans funk sensation Khris
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'Zero Dark Thirty': Like ClockworkBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
09:42AM / Thursday, January 17, 2013 | |
 Popcorn Column
by Michael S. Goldberger
Jessica Chastain plays a CIA agent known as Maya in Kathryn Bigelow's film 'Zero Dark Thirty.' I figured it would be tense and exciting. I knew Mark Boal's gripping screenplay, based on actual, firsthand accounts, would be informative. But what I didn't count on was how eerily haunting director Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty," about the hunt for and eventual assassination of al-Qaida terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, would be. Focusing on the heretofore unsung heroine of the true saga, a female CIA agent known to us only as Maya, the time 0 Comments
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North Adams Happenings: Jan. 16-22| 09:20AM / Wednesday, January 16, 2013 | |
 North Adams Happenings
EVENT 100 Hours in the Woodshed IV- Meet the Artists
January 24, Jan 29 Opening Reception
MCLA Gallery 51
51 Main Street
(413)664-8718
5-7pm
FREE Click here for more information. "100 hours in the Woodshed" returns to MCLA Gallery 51! Masterminded by collage artist Daniel O'Connor, the fourth edition of this unique biennial event begins January 24, 2013 with a "Meet the Artists" reception from 5 to 7 pm. at MCLA Gallery 51. During the five days that follow, the galleries will be a flurry of collage of every
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'Promised Land': Goes Over Old GroundBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
11:00AM / Thursday, January 10, 2013 | |
 Popcorn Column
by Michael S. Goldberger
Matt Damon plays the role of Steve Butler, a salesman for the gas company Global. Until some economic genius invents a great solution or we humans evolve considerably, the problems posed in director Gus Van Sant's "Promised Land" will continue to plague us. Civilization's ever-changing financial systems can't help but strew new batches of winners and losers throughout the landscape, upsetting our lifestyles along the way. In this specific microcosm, the ever-declining feasibility of small farm America and new, game-altering discoveries of natural gas beneath 0 Comments
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Minerva Offers 12-Week Dance, Theater Program| 10:04AM / Monday, January 07, 2013 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Minerva Arts Center is offering a winter/spring "Gleekers" workshop at the First Congregational Church. Inspired by the hit show Glee, the program enables students to explore dance, song and theater ranging from Broadway tunes to modern songs and choreography with the direction of dance instructor Nicole Rizzo and vocal coach Kimberly Rose. Two sessions are offered -- Wednesdays and Saturdays with two performances on April 27. Wednesday classes will be held from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the Youth Chapel and will run Jan. 23 and 30, Feb. 6, 13 and 27, March 6, 13,20 and 27, and April 3, 10 and 24. Saturday classes will be held from 10 a.m. to noon, and will 0 Comments
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'Les Miserables': There but For the Grace...By Michael S. Goldberger, IBerkshires Film Critic
12:25PM / Thursday, January 03, 2013 | |
 Popcorn Column
by Michael S. Goldberger
Russell Cr Great literature, superb filmmaking and a thoroughly heart-rending immersion into one of civilization's greatest moral conundrums converge in director Tom Hooper's rendition of Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables." Starring Hugh Jackman as Jean Valjean, the heroic poor soul who went to jail for stealing a crust of life-sustaining bread, it is a tour de force. Great principals and a fine supporting cast tell a bittersweet tale, with an accent on the bitter, in a musical form that resonates with operatic force. With the pageant of history swirling, the 0 Comments
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'The Guilt Trip': Guilty With an ExplanationBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
11:40AM / Monday, December 31, 2012 | |
 Popcorn Column
by Michael S. Goldberger
Seth Rogan and Barbra Streisand participate in the mother-son comedy 'The Guilt Trip,' directed by Anne Fletcher. I hope the North Central Film Critic Accrediting Association, that august body whose legendary pomposity has long struck fear in many a reviewer's heart, doesn't get wind of this critique of Anne Fletcher's "The Guilt Trip." You see, I enjoyed the albeit schmaltzy ball of fluff, and they might deem me better suited to selling Hyundais on the highway. Don't get me wrong. This goodhearted farce starring Barbra Streisand and Seth Rogen 4 Comments
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IS183 Offers Art Classes at Williamstown SchoohouseBy Stephen Dravis, Williamstown Correspondent
11:18PM / Sunday, December 30, 2012 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — A South County institution is coming north — to South Williamstown.
The IS183 Art School of the Berkshires in January will begin offering a series of classes for participants ages 5 and up at the Little Red Schoolhouse near the junction of Routes 7 and 43, South Williamstown's historic Five Corners.
It is not the first time the Stockbridge-based art school has offered programming in North County, but it is the school's most ambitious foray into North County to date.
"The standard model has been shorter programs to 'get your feet wet,'" IS183 Director Hope Sullivan said. "We have offered programs from
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'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey': And a Long One, TooBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
11:05AM / Thursday, December 20, 2012 | |
 Popcorn Column
by Michael S. Goldberger
'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey' follows the adventure of Bilbo Baggins (played by Martin Freeman). If you promised that, in some distant future, the Grim Reaper would delay his visit to me by two hours and forty-nine minutes, the running time of director Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey," I might not feel so put out by its indulgent length. While splendid in several ways, the rewards narrowly outdistance its daunting duration. Point of disclosure: Never a big fan of alternate universe fiction, I much prefer my metaphors domestically 0 Comments
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