Author: kennethattheatrepublic

The 3D printer (after watching the documentary Print the Legend.) It will become increasingly clear over the next few years that three-dimensional printing is a shift in industrial process as important as the move from wind and water power to steam. I make this assertion as a technological innocent, a sixty-year-old who has trouble keeping… Continue reading What Widgets This Way Come? -3D printing

In writing about the film Fury, I praised it for its disinclination to engage in the usual false geopolitical assertion that America Saved The World from Nazism in 1945. Failing to speculate geopolitically is not a virtue in the case of Clint Eastwood’s new biopic American Sniper. Although told with a cool efficiency that has… Continue reading American Sniper–Let God Sort Them Out

Michael Keaton is not an actor who’s easy to love. He famously blew his career out the window, or perhaps up his nose, and then made a gradual recovery through not particularly memorable roles, his one stop in Shakespeare a travesty of misunderstanding of Dogberry, one of the funniest roles in English drama. Emma Stone… Continue reading The Unexpected Virtue of Theatre

Red Bull versus Apollo I’m of that vintage that, as I type, I can still remember the muscular effort it took, the particular mechanical, as it were pianistic feel of typing an essay on a portable Remington. The medium I’m typing on now also served as an information delivery system for the much-distributed video of… Continue reading The Big Red Leap: Baumgartner’s Step Into Space

Interstellar, by Chris Nolan We ARE in Kansas, Dorothy By Kenneth Brown Notwithstanding Matthew (“I’m my own god”) McConaughey’s excellent work in this film, I could barely keep myself interested, or indeed even awake at certain moments, in spite of the earsplitting volume at which Hans Zimmer’s baldly programmatic score was blared at us every… Continue reading Interstellar: We ARE in Kansas!

Inglorious Tank Fury, directed by David Ayer This just in—Shia LaBeouf can act. That’s the first in a string of good things I have to say about the serious Tank Movie that is Fury. This may be my favourite American war movie ever. It’s the war movie that I’ve been hoping some American would make… Continue reading Reasons to see “Fury”

"Samsara" a film by Ron Frick, on Netflix Samsara by Ron Frick The musical direction of this film, as stunning as the visuals, literally entrances us as Ron Frick’s visuals take us traveloguing through some of the most striking landscapes and manscapes of the planet. The beauty of the film, shot in 70 mm in… Continue reading “Samsara” film essay