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'Tully': The Helping Hand that Rocks the CradleBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
03:41PM / Friday, May 11, 2018 | |
 There is a surprise twist in director Jason Reitman's "Tully," about a mom whose domestic struggles increase exponentially when she adds a third child to her already challenging brood. Ordinarily, this wouldn't be big news. Lots of movies toss us an O. Henry in the ninth inning, some preceded by clues, others with no justification other than that they had no other way to end the thing. Y'know, when in doubt, drop the deus ex machina on 'em. But here, everything — the plot, the message, the who, what where and when — hangs on that curveball. If nothing else, the story construction alone deserves kudos. Not because it is nifty, but because 0 Comments
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'Avengers: Infinity War': Goldberger's ComplaintBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
04:24PM / Friday, May 04, 2018 | |
 President Re: "Avengers: Infinity War" Marvel Studios 500 S. Buena Vista Street Burbank, CA Dear Sir or Madame, I have a bone to pick. Well, actually, many bones. While I certainly appreciate the obvious effort your studio has put into the here referenced "Avengers: Infinity Wars," I cannot help but feel that your megamillion-dollar, superhero extravaganza is discriminatory against filmgoers not inculcated in the Marvel Comics Universe. Admittedly, being of a certain age, my comic hero fealty lies with "Superman" and, to a lesser degree, "Batman." Oh, there was that time in my early teens when I had a dalliance with 0 Comments
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'I Feel Pretty': And So Will YouBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires film critic
06:40PM / Thursday, April 26, 2018 | |
It has long been said by altruistic philosophers, and famously iterated in 1966 by no less authority than David Ruffin and The Temptations, that "Beauty Is Only Skin Deep." But alas, anyone who has spent any time on this planet chock full of monuments to physical splendor, and who has perhaps had the lesson harshly impressed in middle school, knows that all that well-meaning claptrap goes out the window when one is confronted with a comely face or a well-turned ankle. There is no expression, "The great personality that launched a thousand ships." Thus, even we really good looking people must commiserate with Amy Schumer's Renee Bennett 0 Comments
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ArtWeek to Launch Across Massachusetts| 02:39PM / Monday, April 23, 2018 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. - Presented by Highland Street Foundation and produced by the Boch Center, ArtWeek will present its largest season lineup ever.
The award-winning creative festival will offer more than 500 events from April 27-May 6 — more than double the size of the 2017 festival. For the first time, ArtWeek events will take place across the commonwealth, with a presence in 155 neighborhoods and towns across all six regions of the state.
The festival aims to provide participants with new ways to get creative and make art and culture more accessible to everyone. This season, more than 70 percent of all ArtWeek events are free. Visit the website to view the full calendar of
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'Ready Player One': It's All a GameBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires columnist
03:28PM / Friday, April 20, 2018 | |
 It occurs while viewing Steven Spielberg's "Ready Player One" that this is something Dr. Timothy Leary might have dreamt if he fell asleep just after reading Orwell's "1984." As a pundit I knew in 1969 was oft inclined to opine when bemused by the semi-unexplainable, "It's trippy." Although the film bounces back and forth between reality and its cause célèbre, virtual reality, we are ultimately relieved when we grok that beneath all the layers of surrealism and cutting-edge chimera, it's just good vs. evil fighting it out in high-tech trappings. In this feature-length metaphor within a satire based on Ernest 0 Comments
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Concert Benefits Girls Empowerment | 02:30PM / Friday, April 20, 2018 | |
 EGREMONT, Mass. — Miss Hall's School seniors Anna Kim and Tiffany Luu will host a fundraising concert titled "Girls Aloud! Advocating Girls Empowerment" on Sunday, April 29, from 12:30 to 2 p.m. at The Barn at the Egremont Village Inn on South Main Street.
A portion of the proceeds will benefit Berkshire HorseWorks, a 501c3 based in Richmond that provides EAGALA Model Equine Assisted Psychotherapy to those at risk and equine-assisted team building for organizations of all kinds. Kim has been interning at the organization during her senior year as part of the school's Horizons program.
Tickets are limited.General admission is $15,and the student price is
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MCLA Presents 'Into the Woods'| 02:20PM / Friday, April 20, 2018 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts' 2017-18 theater season, "We the People," will culminate with the theater program's adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's "Into the Woods," which will open on Friday, April 20.
Performances will take place at 8 p.m. on April 20, 21, 27 and 28, with matinees at 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 21, and Sunday, April 29, in Venable Theater on the MCLA campus. A talkback will take place after the 8 p.m. show on Saturday, April 28. For more information or to reserve tickets, call the box office at 413-662-5123 or go online.
Directed by Jeremy Winchester, assistant professor of theater at MCLA, the show
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'Isle of Dogs': Will Wag Your TailBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
01:33PM / Friday, April 06, 2018 | |
 Writer-director Wes Anderson's often brilliant, stop-motion animated feature, "Isle of Dogs," about a 12-year-old boy's search for his lost pup, packs its humor-filled, sociopolitical wisdom into 101 entertaining minutes like hard ice cream jack-hammered into a pint carton. Lose concentration for a second and you'll miss a manifesto, a dictum, a theory and perhaps two or three mini-treatises on government. It soon becomes clear that the bulk of its pontifications will be gleaned not in the theater, but in the den via successive screenings over the years. Thus the best tack to take, if you can, is to sit back, relax and enjoy this genre heir to "Animal 0 Comments
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'The Leisure Seeker': Two for the RoadBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
03:09PM / Thursday, March 29, 2018 | |
 If you are of a certain age, which I am, then director Paolo Virzi's "The Leisure Seeker" is certain to resonate anywhere from sentimentally positive to depressingly negative, depending of course on how you view the last few chapters of the life experience. It is not an easy subject, especially in these overindulged times when even the closing of a favorite restaurant is reason enough for extended mourning. Shrouded in mystery, hope, despair and every other word the poets have employed to describe the inevitable, it is, along with love, the ultimate inscrutability. We don't even like to say it: Old Age. There, I did it. Yet the realization that it is 0 Comments
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'Love, Simon': You've Got BlackmailBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
02:54PM / Thursday, March 22, 2018 | |
 While director Greg Berlanti's "Love, Simon" is at once funny, serious and important, it's a darn shame that it is so very apt ... that this astute tale about a teenage boy's struggle to make his gayness known is revolutionary at all. Memo of inquiry to American civilization: It's the spring of 2018, and this fact of life is just making the mainstream? Well, better late than never. Truth is, attitudinal changes come slowly, especially to the narrow-minded. But the seed of tolerant reformation, boosted during the enlightenment of the '60s, has finally gained pragmatic traction. Today's kids, who have of late heroically evidenced that they'll 0 Comments
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