Precious Dread
I confess to a lifelong love of horror movies – the good old-fashioned kind that make the spine tingle with dread, without resorting to gratuitous …
I confess to a lifelong love of horror movies – the good old-fashioned kind that make the spine tingle with dread, without resorting to gratuitous …
School’s out for summer, and teen comedies abound. Most of them are trite, raunchy, potty-mouthed, formulaic – and immensely successful. “The Hangover” is one of …
“Waiting for Godot” (directed by Anthony Page), Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece of existential angst, opened at Studio 54 on Broadway this spring with a sparkling cast …
Brutal, intense, and irreverent, the original “Terminator” (1984) was anything but a Sunday School story. And yet, it was one of the best messianic allegories …
Yasmina Reza is a French playwright whose works transcend barriers of language and culture to reveal the core of human relationships. She has a gift …
Here’s one of my immutable rules of theatrical enjoyment: If there’s a play by George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, or Noel Coward in production, don’t …
“The Soloist” begins in the way that “State of Play” ends: opening credits roll as newspapers are printed, bundled, and delivered. The papers are a …
Like newspaper columnists, film documentarians are always on the look- out for a great story. The difference is, they have to begin filming the story …
“State of Play” is a good old- fashioned newspaper thriller in which the curmudgeonly journalist solves the case using wits, not guns. The film is …
“Confessions of a Shopaholic” is based on one of those ubiquitous “pink books” you see on bookstore display tables with whimsical sketches of modern young …