Author: eginzburg

  • Ginzburg’s Gab 8/12/22- Those Darned Critics- A Blog on Film Criticism

    Ginzburg’s Gab 8/12/22-  Those Darned Critics- A Blog on Film Criticism

    On Steven Soderbergh’s Bubble (2005): The script is boring, the acting atrocious, the direction is poor…what the hell happened here?– Eric Lurio Greenwich Village Gazette A haunting film, made all the more intriguing by the use of ordinary people, not actors, in all the roles.– Claudia Puig USA Today Wow, those are two quite different […]

  • George Benson Concert Review- “On Broadway”

    George Benson Concert Review- “On Broadway”

    George Benson (Sony Hall NYC 8/10/22)- A lot of adjectives came to my mind while watching George Benson’s 75 or so minute concert tonight.Tight. Polished. Slick. Professional. Crowd-pleasing. Enjoyable. Nostalgic.And Benson is likable and, at age 79, stylish, youthful, and gracious.But there was one other word that kept repeating in my brain.Safe.It was all ever […]

  • That Corporate Apologist Thing (Ginzburg’s Gab 8/10/22)

    That Corporate Apologist Thing   (Ginzburg’s Gab 8/10/22)

    I came of age in a long-ago era, where young people were taught to “Fight the Power.”We wanted to change the world. To create great Art. To be Artists. Being a suit was being the enemy, “The Man.” There was no appeal in being that CEO. Hell, we wanted to be rock stars and rappers […]

  • It’s Chaos, Be Kind

    It’s Chaos, Be Kind

    3/13/22 Ginzburg’s Gab Blog In one of noted comedian Patton Oswalt’s network specials, he speaks of becoming a young widower after his wife dies at the tender age of 46. His wife, a brilliant author, didn’t believe in fate, Karma, a higher entity’s will, or anything along those lines. She exclaimed to him, simply, “It’s […]