It is a simple yellow Post-it Note with a message written in childish scrawl: “Happy Birthday Daddy.” A second Post-it Note features a rudimentary drawing of what appears to be a princess. Both are pressed up against the curb — held there by a piece of wood.
“The Vast of Night,” a micro-budget noir set in 1950s New Mexico, crackles with B-movie electricity.
These are children of the global pandemic.
What parent hasn’t heard his or her child utter the familiar phrase “I’m bored” at some point? Despite a seemingly vast array of toys, electronics and other items at their disposal, children can be quick to sulk and say there’s nothing to do.
The Kids Corner story on fairy gardens earlier this month caught the attention of 4-year-old Aubrey Menesale, who decided to make a fairy garden of her own.
There may have been a point — say, oh, a few months ago? — when we’d have demanded a lot more edge from a movie like “The High Note,” and been less forgiving of its more implausible moments.
The documentary “On the Record” spends quite a bit of time introducing former music executive Drew Dixon before Russell Simmons and rape are mentioned.
Emilio DiPalma was, as he liked to say, just a kid from western Massachusetts when he found himself in a front-row seat to history as a courtroom guard in Nuremberg, Germany, during the first and most famous trial of Nazi war criminals in 1945.
