Is virtuosity, on its own, enough? That’s the question that’s raised pointedly by Kenrex, a play that poses as a true-crime inquiry into the nature of violence and justice but really asks if the experience of watching one actor whirring around onstage at the top of his game can obscure t… More » Source: Read…
Photo: Kane Skennar/Netflix During the pivotal scene in which Apex reveals itself to be not a meditative outdoor adventure in which Sasha, played by Charlize Theron, grieves her late boyfriend but a thriller in which she is hunted to the death, Taron Egerton’s Ben muses about what’s behind their shared love of extreme activities. Some…
Photo: Courtesy of Roadside Attractions Some movies are so eager to entertain that they refuse to let themselves be any one thing; they just keep changing shape. David Mackenzie’s Fuze kicks off in comically rapid-fire fashion, with brief, interrupted shots of various characters discovering … well, something. And its clipped cadence never really pauses after…
A neighborhood association is a little like a protection racket, especially in a landmarked suburb like the fictional Vernon Point — one with well-preserved Victorian homes, a tree-lined esplanade, and a developing problem with traffic crashes. Recently, a stoplight has been installed on one stre… More » Source: Read Full Article
For disputed reasons, April 20, abbreviated to 420, has become a day to celebrate marijuana; even if this is nothing you mark on your calendar, the collective culture is bound to remind you. Weed is not what it used to be, which is to say illegal everywhere. (State laws may differ, but the federal government…
Noël Coward’s 1925 amuse-bouche Fallen Angels, now in a lush Broadway revival dripping Deco glamor and directed sans hot take by Scott Ellis, isn’t making any noisy arguments for its own necessity. The production grew out of a <a href="https://www.roundabouttheatre.org/join-and-give/spec… More » Source: Read Full Article
A parent’s love is supposed to be boundless and unconditional, but you have to snicker the first time that Charlie Cannon (Jack Reynor) and his wife, Larissa (Laia Costa), are reunited with their daughter after a nightmarish eight-year absence. Katie is a mischievous little girl played by Emily Mitchell when she disappears mysteriously from the…
Photo: Magnolia Pictures/Everett Collection So Bob Odenkirk is really determined to see this thing through, huh? Fresh off last year’s Nobody 2, his sequel to the modest 2021 dadsploitation hit Nobody, he’s back with another middle-age kill-fest in Normal, named after the sleepy midwestern town that the movie will soon turn into a semi-ironic slaughter…
Photo: Universal/Everett Collection Watching You, Me & Tuscany, I felt a little like the robot boy David at the end of Steven Spielberg’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001). In the final scenes of that movie, David, unfrozen and brought back to “life” by a futuristic race of all-powerful AI thousands of years after humanity’s extinction, asks…
Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel play artists at different ends of the celebrity spectrum in The Christophers, a sly new dramedy from director Steven Soderbergh and writer Ed Solomon. What unites the two main characters is that neither is showing new work anymore or, in the case of Julian Sklar (McKellen), making it at all….
