Keep on Trekkin’
Sometimes it takes an outsider to fix what’s wrong, or perhaps to remember what was so right. In 1966, “Star Trek,” the television series, made …
Sometimes it takes an outsider to fix what’s wrong, or perhaps to remember what was so right. In 1966, “Star Trek,” the television series, made …
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 …
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 …
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 …
“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 …
“Boorish, bigoted, and borderline pornographic.” “‘Tasteless, trashy, and over the top.” “Big, loud, and brain- . less.” These are the words reviewers are using to …
“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 …
“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 …
“Watchmen” is a graphic novel written in the mid-1980s, a complex work combining text and images to create an alternative reality, a world where “superheroes” …