2008 Woodie Awards
Opera Review: Verdi's La Traviata
Verdi can do no wrong. His genius, combined with the talented cast of the Boston Lyric Opera (BLO), make for an enjoyable production. As part of the 2005-2006 Diva Season, the BLO presented Verdi's masterpiece La Traviata. Translated as "The Fallen Woman," it is the story of Violetta Valery as she falls from a life of pleasure to the pain of a lost love.…
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Kosher Wine Guide
In honor of Passover, the mother of all Kosher wine drinking holidays, I would like to take this opportunity to disavow everyone of the notion that Kosher wine begins and ends with Manishevitz. If you are one of those sorry individuals who downs four cups of putrid red concord alcoholic syrup, please accept my heartfelt sympathies (and a package of Tums).…
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Review Briefs
V for Vendetta
Review by Matt Justus
This adaptation of Alan Moore's graphic novel is set twenty years in the future, in a dystopian London ruled by a fascist government that has eliminated people's civil liberties and does not hesitate to murder its citizens for speaking out against the state.…
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The Harvard Law (DVD) Review: Jarhead
Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, Peter Sarsgaard
Directed by Sam Mendes
The Film:
Jarhead, as a film, is a little hard to define. It's not exactly a war movie
about honor and valor and soldierly brotherhood like Saving Private Ryan, for
example.…
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