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Film listings are edited by Cheryl Eddy. Reviewers are Kimberly Chun, Max Goldberg, Dennis Harvey, and Lynn Rapoport. For rep house showtimes, see Rep Clock. OPENING The Awakening In 1921 England Florence Cathcart (Rebecca Hall) is a best-selling author...

Infocom’s display at the 1985 Winter CES. Infocom entered 1985 filled with ebullient optimism. They had just released their fastest-selling game ever, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; hosted two splashy Manhattan press conferences,...

When Detective Webster Coninck arrives at the murder scene outside Tups Tavern, he quickly identifies the body: Tom Johanssen. Former classmate, full of charisma, and a man with enough enemies to line up interviews into next week. Webb finds himself...

Well, we just about got through yesterday with our sanity intact.  I ended up delivering my passage at the Nine Lessons and Carols then having to almost literally drop the mike to get Tom home for his bedtime.  Today I’ve actually had a day off, and...

E.L. Doctorow, Literary Time Traveler Who Stirred the Past Into Fiction, Dies at 84 Bruce Weber 21 July 2015 E. L. Doctorow, a leading figure in contemporary American letters whose popular, critically admired and award-winning novels — including “Ragtime...