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Chris Ryan's Top Five Fave Movies for 2025
TOP FIVE Sinners Weapons La Grazia Sentimental Value The Secret Agent Honorable Mention: Blue Moon, The History of Sound, Bugonia SINNERS This is the fifth film directed by Ryan Coogler and the fifth to star Michael B. Jordan. Jordan plays identical twins in this movie, and with him being one of the handsomest men on earth and all, what a treat to have twice as much screen time looking at him. But in addition to that he gives an impressive couple of performances. He different
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Mar 1924 min read
Chamber Music Society of Linc Ctr, Feb 1 2026
Barbara and I heard the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center an all-Shostakovich program on Feb 1, 2026. I’ve always loved Shostakovich and clearly need to do a deeper exploration of his music. This was all new music to me and it knocked me out. The first piece was the one I thought I knew - - a Shostakovich piano trio. It turns out it wasn’t the famous trio but an early trio, written when he was sixteen! It had many of the distinguishing characteristics of a Shostakovich
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Feb 54 min read
CDA: RJ Mitte
I just read in The Times about the death of actor RJ Mitte, age 34. He'll always be remembered as Flynn, the son of Walter White on Breaking Bad. His character, for me, was the emotional core of the show. Most of the clips I'm finding on YouTube have major spoilers but this one from season 2 seems pretty safe:
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11 hours ago1 min read
*Buena Vista Social Club,* Oct 6 2026
Nicola, Wendy, and I saw *Buena Vista Social Club* on Broadway on Oct 6, 2026. It's inspired by the 1999 Wim Wenders documentary about an American music producer going to Havana to convince retired (and mostly forgotten) Cuban musicians to reunite for a concert. The musical centers on the same content as the film but also flashes back to the late 1950s, when the musicians were young. We were lucky to have seen Natalie Venetia Belcon in the central role of Omara. She won the T
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1 day ago2 min read
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