“The Taste of Things” is so simple, so much a grand luminous romantic story, nothing written about it will charm and delight you as the watching of it., J.P. Devine writes.
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On the Edge: Happy Days are here again
Gloomy and dark days have given way to skies that are clear again, J.P. Devine writes.
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TV SERIES REVIEW: ‘Feud’ is a dusty old tale about two fading wall portraits, J.P. Devine writes
A strong cast falls short in this hit-or-miss series that looks at the famous feud between iconic actors Joan Crawford and Bette Davis.
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On the Edge: Happy Catholic Schools Week, sisters
J.P. Devine ponders his own Catholic school memories and the sisters who taught him along the way.
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TV SERIES REVIEW: ‘The Dry’ is a strange, often bewildering sitcom
In the opening scenes of Paddy Breathnach and Nancy Harris’s “The Dry,” we meet Shiv (short for Siobhan played by Roisin Gallagher) arriving home unexpectedly from London in a cab. She seems surprised that no one in the family is there to meet her. Once you meet this family, you’ll wonder if she really grew […]
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On the Edge: Dancing in the dark
Navigating the slippery slopes of winter has J.P. Devine pondering what a fall could mean.
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TV SERIES REVIEW: New ‘Monsieur Spade’ brings elements of classic to France
Clive Owen (“Inside Man,” “Croupier”) appears this week on AMC’s “Monsieur Spade” as Sam Spade. If that classic name seems familiar to you, you’re a lot older than you look. Sam Spade was famously the name on an office window atop Hyde Street in San Francisco, where the cable cars still turn. It spelled out […]
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On the Edge: A bad day for skin
J.P. Devine remembers a time when he was young and handsome with black hair and smooth, youthful skin, talking us into buying stuff we didn’t need.
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‘Oppenheimer,’ the Frankenstein’s monster that changed our world
“I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” A verse from the Bhagavad Gita, spoken by Oppenheimer while viewing the successful test of the first bomb. J. Robert Oppenheimer. A name forever burned in history and largely forgotten. Japanese cities like Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the two cities our bombers destroyed at the cost of great […]
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On the Edge: New Year’s resolutions
J.P. Devine is resolving to improve his life while waiting for the next storm.