At this season every year, I re-read Charles Dickens’ holiday classic “A Christmas Carol.” So as a devotee, I was hesitant about “Spirited,” Apple-TV’s wild, woolly, wise-cracking new musical based on that beloved book. But actually, I really enjoyed it. And despite a few missteps, I think Dickens would like it too. Starring Will Ferrell,
“The Repasz Band is back in full force!” declares conductor Jeff Dent. Indeed, after various COVID-related struggles with membership, practice and performance going all the way back to the spring of 2020, the city’s 191-year-old ensemble will perform its regular holiday concert this year with a full complement of roughly 70 musicians. The free performance
Ever notice how nostalgia seems to play a vital role in the holiday season? You carefully resurrect old family traditions, dig out grandma’s grease-spattered recipes, bedeck your tree with 50-year-old ornaments, and your teenage kids — normally devoted to trendy new music — happily subject themselves to Sinatra, Burl Ives, Andy Williams and Vince Guaraldi;
“Till” is the best new movie I’ve seen this year — and unlike many films about race, it does not contain a “white savior.” Focused on the 1955 lynching of a 14-year-old black boy in Mississippi, the galvanizing “Till” scarcely has a single white character — with the notable exception of completely worthless jurors and
In September, your Webb Weekly film critic offered a list of forthcoming movies for the rest of this year; but the roster was so deep that I split it, planning to cover the last two months with this October column. In the meantime, Parade magazine beat me to the punch, running a 10/16 story on
“It’s a whodunit; you’ve seen one, you’ve seen ’em all.” Thus, says fictional director Leo Kopernick in the thoroughly entertaining new mystery “See How They Run.” Though Leo makes this statement in a film that takes place 69 years ago, it’s a little misleading. “See How They Run” is by no means the sort of
