Portobello, cremini, shiitake — there are hundreds more mighty mushroom varieties than these, and they’re capable of greater feats than simply adding umami to your dinner plate.
Connected to every earth-bound organism through a vast underground network, the humble ‘shroom has the power to feed, medicate, solve ecological problems and alter human consciousness itself.
Narrated by Brie Larson (yes, that Brie), Fungi: The Magic Beneath Us unveils the wonders of fungi’s unbound potential with the aid of expert mycologists, farmers, physicians, ecologists and writers.
If nothing else, go for director Louie Schwartzberg’s stunning time-lapse cinematography of alienesque fungi emerging from forest floors in bursts of technicolor and texture.
5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 29. $10.25 adult; $7.75 senior/child. Esquire Theatre, 320 Ludlow Ave., Clifton, esquiretheatre.com.
This article appears in Nov 27 – Dec 10, 2019.