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What’s New on Bostonhassle.com: From the Music Section
GALLERY: JULIEN BAKER, ANGEL OLSEN, AND SHARON VAN ETTEN AT LEADER BANK PAVILION 8/18
- Meg Taylor
WENT THERE: REGINA SPEKTOR AND NORAH JONES ON AUG. 2
“TUESDAY AUG. 2 WAS A SERENE EVENING; the sky slightly cloudy and tinged pink. At Leader Bank Pavilion, dozens of people congregated around the water, watching sailboats drift lazily across the harbor. This is where the ‘young’ crowd could be found, although there were far more older audience members that night. As we awaited the concert’s opening act, the dreamy anti-folk songstress Regina Spektor, oldies played over the loudspeakers.”
- Amelia Blanton
What’s New on Bostonhassle.com: From the Film Section
REVIEW: ORPHAN: FIRST KILL (2022) DIR. WILLIAM BRENT BELLE
“As I’ve written in this space before, I’ve long had a soft spot for Jaume Collet-Serra’s 2009 thriller Orphan. It’s probably not a great movie– it doesn’t have a lot of what one might call “redeeming social content”– but it’s exactly the movie that it should be. It’s got a creepy-kid performance for the ages in young Isabelle Fuhrman, it’s ghoulishly funny in a way that’s clearly intentional yet never overly self-aware, and it’s just so refreshingly nasty that it sits nicely alongside such so-wrong-they’re-right pulp sickies as Class of 1984 and Lady in a Cage. Yet, for reasons both narrative and logistical (more on that in a bit), Orphan seems like an odd fit as the start of a belated horror franchise. Fortunately, against all odds, the new prequel Orphan: First Kill not only holds its own against the cultishly beloved original, it makes a solid case for itself as a story in its own right.”
- Oscar Goff
REVIEW: BEAST (2022) DIR. BALTASAR KORMÁKUR
“‘We want villains to be sexy, and in my mind, an animal could be very sexy in a kind of exotic way.’ That’s Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur on the computer-generated star of Beast, an intelligent lion in the South African bush with a vendetta against poachers. While I’m not sure I follow the premise of sexy mammals, Kormákur certainly makes the titular beast a uniquely majestic predatory cat. The CGI lion looks marvelous, powerful, and downright menacing. ”
- Joshua Polanski
What’s New on Bostonhassle.com: From the Arts and Culture Section
THERE’S PAINT EVERYWHERE!: A DEEP DIVE INTO ARTISTS IN THE WORCESTER AREA, PT.1
“Growing up in Worcester is a little hard to describe, given that it isn’t a universal experience. A lot of that diversity is expressed through artistry; whether these creators paint, design, make music, or whatever, you see a piece of who they are and the impact of where they live in their work. So when it comes to documenting this artistic expression, there is an amazing range to pick from, given that many artists from here excel in knowing how to take up space.”