Once you’re drawn into viewing Harron’s cinematic kaleidoscopic world of “Daliland,” allow yourself to be transported into the work of one of the film world’s most gifted actors, and that’s really why you’re here, J.P. Devine writes.
Life & Culture
Arts, entertainment, food and books news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘To Woo and To Wed’ and ‘Ghost Town’
A delightfully charming and funny Victorian rom-com, and a complex suspense thriller
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MIFF Movie Review: ‘Goodfellas’ the greatest lasagna of Italians ever, J.P. Devine writes
It’s rumored that Martin hated the title of the book, so Pileggi grudgingly changed it to “Goodfellas,” J.P. Devine writes.
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MIFF Movie Review: ‘Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story,’ who was clever, funny and brilliant
Coward was a genius of his art, a friend, a gentleman, and bright star of darker skies, J.P. Devine writes.
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July 12, 1990: More than 100 firefighters from 7 towns fight blaze at an oil distribution office in downtown Newport, Waterville officials given estimate for Two Cent Bridge repair, and Farmington-area judge drops out of race for district attorney
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MIFF Movie Review: ‘The Ghost Trap’ is about trap war with rival lobstering family
The title is a bit misleading, it’s and not even a documentary about lobster fishing, any more than Hemingway’s “To Have and Have Not” is about the boat rental business, J.P. Devine writes.
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Blueberry season is starting locally, looks promising so far
One farm opened Wednesday, another plans to do so Monday.
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Kingfield Festival Days set to bring community fun and excitement
Kingfield Festival Days, running from July 18-21, will offer a packed weekend of community activities, including parades, games, live entertainment and a surf-and-turf dinner.
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July 11, 1974: Some 135 towns and cities in Maine are apparently violating state welfare law, Maine paying cops to patrol Capitol Park in Augusta, and a large amount of goods were stolen from a Sidney market recently
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Movie Review: ‘American Fiction’ is a touching story about a family
Cord Jefferson is an American writer with clearly promising gifts. He is the guy who sat in the writer’s room with the other struggling writers on the late night Larry Wilmore show that closed down in 2016 after two seasons. But Cord didn’t close down. He opened wide. After a series of shows and awards, […]