The Unfettered Critic
Dog Day Afternoon – by Paula & Terry Erdmann
The Unfettered Critic – May 2018
Our readers may have noticed that we have an affinity for dogs. This doesn’t mean we automatically adore any movie featuring a canine (some are dogs, and we don’t mean […]
Look What They’ve Done to My Book, Ma… – by Paula & Terry Erdmann
The Unfettered Critic – April 2018
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle’s award-winning 1962 novel, is beloved by generations of readers. It is “science fantasy”—too fanciful to be considered science fiction, but brimming with science-y theories […]
Yielding to the Future: Star Trek: Discovery – by Paula & Terry Erdmann
The Unfettered Critic – March 2018
We aren’t enamored of streaming services.
We don’t object to them. We just haven’t felt the need to sign up for “additional services.” We like network TV—free TV—although we know its […]
It’s That Time Again…Almost – by Paula & Terry Erdmann
The Unfettered Critic – February 2018
We love the smell of popcorn in the winter. It reminds us of…entertainment award show time!
The year kicks-off with the televised Golden Globes ceremony in January. And then comes February, […]
Inconceivable – by Paula & Terry Erdmann
The Unfettered Critic – November 2017
May we get personal here? We have a tale to tell.
Many of you know writer William Goldman for his Academy Award-winning screenplays to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and […]
What? Biopics again? – by Paula & Terry Erdmann
The Unfettered Critic – October 2017
Okay, we’ll admit it. We haven’t reviewed much cinema this year. Frankly, we weren’t inspired by Hollywood’s offerings in 2017. Yes, we liked Wonder Woman (a lot) but many of […]
Once more, with extreme feeling – by Paula & Terry Erdmann
The Unfettered Critic – September 2017
You don’t know what you missed. And that makes us very sad.
We’re serious. Every August, the residents of Southern Oregon are offered a tremendous opportunity. Yet many residents let that […]
The Classical Side of the Hill – by Paula & Terry Erdmann
The Unfettered Critic – August 2017
By the time you read this, the migration will have begun.
Dozens of classically trained, world-class musicians will be returning to the stage on Britt Hill, where Conductor Teddy Abrams will […]
A Superhero(ine) for Our Times – by Paula & Terry Erdmann
The Unfettered Critic – July 2017
Comic books once were considered kid stuff. No one over sixteen admitted to reading them, let alone dared to dream of watching his or her favorite superheroes on the big […]
Cold Comfort – by Paula & Terry Erdmann
The Unfettered Critic – June 2017
Shakespeare, we believe, was thinking of us, your humble critics, when he wrote these prophetic lines: “Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all […]