Ann Morrow

Cohoes, Reinvented

by Ann Morrow May 15, 2013

“They let me buy a castle,” says brewer Brennon Cleary with a broad grin. The first-time business owner is talking about his New Jersey investors, but he could also be referring to the city of ...

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In his ripe old age, Auguste Renoir, the titan of impressionism, was still creating masterpieces while bravely facing the infirmities of severe arthritis. Successful during his own lifetime, he bought a sun-ripened farmhouse estate on ...

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The Germinator

by Ann Morrow May 1, 2013

It starts with a lone astronaut narrating the apocalypse that turned Earth into a wasteland. “We won the war but lost the planet,” explains Jack (Tom Cruise), as he patrols the cracked-rock surface. After a ...

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Doctor Who?

by Ann Morrow April 18, 2013

Trance is the slick new crime thriller from Danny Boyle, and though the director is a recent Oscar-winner for Slumdog Millionaire, Trance harkens much more to his first movie, Shallow Grave. Though almost all of ...

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Standing Up

by Ann Morrow April 10, 2013

The battle continues over St. Patrick’s Church in Watervliet. A plan to incorporate the church’s façade and 137-foot-high tower into the design of the Price Chopper store was declined on Tuesday by Nigro Companies, owners ...

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The Talking Wounded

by Ann Morrow March 28, 2013

This year’s Oscar nominees for Best Documentary were some of the hardest-hitting in memory, including, oddly enough, two on the issue of Palestinean statehood. The Gatekeepers, by Israeli filmmaker Dror Moreh, concerns Shin Bet, Israel’s ...

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Sweet New Deal for an Old Building

by Ann Morrow March 27, 2013

Shovel in hand, Vic Christopher is creating a business from the ground up. Literally. Last week, Christopher and his wife, Heather LaVine, purchased “the most endangered building in Troy,” a four-story commercial building that extends ...

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Nothing Up Their Sleeves

by Ann Morrow March 20, 2013

There are moments in The Incredible Burt Wonderstone that capture the enchantment of “real magic” (magicians’ term for a trick or illusion performed to perfection), and there are a few scenes that are truly satirical, ...

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Grim Tale

by Ann Morrow March 13, 2013

Colin Farrell and Noomi Rapace are dead together, and it’s not just because the characters they play in Dead Man Down are dead inside. The two stars, who would seem to be well-matched, have nothing ...

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The New Yorker

by Ann Morrow March 6, 2013

In the documentary Koch, much is made of the former New York City mayor’s love of the spotlight: As one friend notes of the ailing 88-year-old, “If there are cameras in the hospital, he will ...

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Art Opening at The Foundry

by Ann Morrow February 28, 2013

Last Friday (Feb. 22), art lovers checked out Paper, Plastic and Concrete, the new exhibit of works by Terry James Conrad, at an opening reception at The Foundry for Art Design + Culture (119 Remsen ...

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It Isn’t

by Ann Morrow February 20, 2013

Where is Jeb Stuart when you need him? Because renegade cop John McClane (Bruce Willis) sure could’ve used a good screenwriter for his fifth time getting caught in a very bad situation while not in ...

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Misdiagnosis

by Ann Morrow February 13, 2013

Malingering comes into play in Steven Soderbergh’s latest—and reportedly last—major motion picture. Medical jargon for faking illness or disability for financial or other gain, it is perhaps appropriate, since Soderbergh has not been a major ...

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Muted

by Ann Morrow January 31, 2013

Adapted from his stage play by Oscar-winning screenwriter Ronald Harwood, Quartet should have been better than it is. And because its topic is so appealingly offbeat, audiences may enjoy it more than it deserves. Set ...

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