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Reviews by Josmar Lopes
http://josmarlopes.wordpress.com/
Brazilian culture and history (as well as music, opera, the arts), films in general, sci-fi/fantasy/horror films in particular, TV, opera history, reviews and personalities, pop music, pop culture personalities, bossa nova, soccer. I was invited to submit my blog by Emma on Dec 6, 2012.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 426 )
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Nausicaä Awakens: The Influence of Hayao Miyazaki on the ‘Star Wars’ Sequel...
(Today's guest contributor is The Metaplex film critic Brendan Hodges, who has provided a deeply insightful and exceptionally fitting analysis of Japanese... Read more
Posted on 02 May 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
Cancelled! — The Case of the Missing Met Opera Season (Part One)
The Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center Casualties at the Front Stop what you're doing and take a moment to listen. Did you hear that? It's the... Read more
Posted on 20 April 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
Plague on Humanity Or Manna for Modern Times? — A Review of the Available Film...
The giving of the Ten Commandments, with Charlton Heston as Moses Today is Good Friday, a day commemorated across the globe as one of tragedy and misfortune... Read more
Posted on 10 April 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
Kenny Rogers: He Knew When to Fold 'Em
Wynonna Judd with the late Kenny Rogers This morning, I woke up to learn the sad news that Kenny Rogers had passed away at 81. I remember Kenny Rogers in the... Read more
Posted on 21 March 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
March Sadness and Humanity’s Hope
Tom Hanks (L.) meets with Astronaut Jim Lovell Today is Sunday, March 15. In poetic terms, it's the ides of March. According to historians (and to William... Read more
Posted on 15 March 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
Leading Man on Fire — A Denzel Washington Primer (Part Seven): The Law is On...
Americans love lawyers. Now, before you have a fit or have me committed to Bellevue Hospital's psychiatric ward, let me elaborate. We enjoy watching television... Read more
Posted on 08 March 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
‘It Takes a Long Pull to Get There’: ‘Porgy and Bess’ and the Winding Road to th...
After almost 30 years in limbo (or mothballs, if you prefer), the Metropolitan Opera brought The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess back to its stage with a vibrant,... Read more
Posted on 21 February 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
A German Triumvirate: ‘The Magic Flute,’ ‘Der Rosenkavalier,’ and ‘Wozzeck’ at...
Saturday afternoons can be either marvelous or tedious affairs, depending on the season or the weather. For the past few weekends, however, yours truly has... Read more
Posted on 26 January 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
I Saw Them Standing There — How the Fab Four Pleased, Pleased a Budding Fan...
Ah, to be young again and relive those treasured moments from one's past! One such moment - indeed, one of the more pleasurable experiences I can remember from... Read more
Posted on 01 January 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
Verdi’s ‘Macbeth’: The ‘Ideal Couple’ and Their Path to Destruction
Has there ever been a viler, more compelling, or more self-destructive pair than Lady Macbeth and her warlike mate, Macbeth? Indeed, has there ever been an oper... Read more
Posted on 24 December 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
‘The Queen of Spades’: Unlucky in Love, Lucky in Cards — Tchaikovsky Returns to...
It's been nearly a decade since the Metropolitan Opera staged Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's penultimate opera The Queen of Spades (or Pikavaya Dama in Russian, a... Read more
Posted on 15 December 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
What’s Eating Johnny Depp? The Actor at Age 50: A Mid-Career Retrospective...
Whether it be a crime family or a makeshift coterie of privateers; whether it involves one spouse married to another, or encompasses a string of failed marriage... Read more
Posted on 30 November 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
‘Star Wars’ — The Original Series (Part Eight): ‘Episode VI, Return of the...
Star Wars - Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983), the third film in the original three-episode series, completes the cycle started back in 1977. The story has... Read more
Posted on 17 November 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
‘We Talk About Cinema to Talk About Everything Else’: A Look at the Future of...
(Today's guest contributor is Quebec-born freelance writer Justine Smith. Justine has been writing professionally since 2014 as a film and cultural critic. She... Read more
Posted on 26 October 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
Mixing the Old with the New (and More): The Met Opera’s 2019-2020 Radio Broadcas...
I look forward with anticipation to the Metropolitan Opera's Live in HD and Radio Program Guide. It can be found online, if you're interested (here's the link:... Read more
Posted on 13 October 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
What’s Eating Johnny Depp? The Actor at Age 50: A Mid-Career Retrospective...
When last we left the eclectic Mr. Depp, he was caught up in cocaine smuggling in the 2001 movie Blow. Sent to Otisville Federal Correctional Institute for a... Read more
Posted on 06 October 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
From the Depths to the Heights and Back Again: Wagner’s ‘Ring’ Winds Its Weary...
The fourth and final installment by the Metropolitan Opera of Wagner's tetralogy The Ring of the Nibelung concluded on April 27, 2019 with Götterdämmerung... Read more
Posted on 01 September 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
Leading Man on Fire — A Denzel Washington Primer (Part Six): Much Ado About...
When you've climbed the highest mountain and scaled the dizziest heights, where do you go from there? And when actors reach the absolute peak of their... Read more
Posted on 18 August 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
Leading Man on Fire — A Denzel Washington Primer (Part Five): ‘Together We Stand...
Whether it be on the big screen or small screen, or in the theater, to bring their characters to life actors must be able to draw from personal knowledge and... Read more
Posted on 11 August 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
From the Depths to the Heights and Back Again: Wagner’s ‘Ring’ Winds Its Weary...
In Siegfried, the third opera in Wagner's Ring cycle, we return to the realm of gods and monsters; of heroes and villains, myths and legends, dragons and dwarfs... Read more
Posted on 03 August 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA