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
The art critic Jerry Saltz took thousands of photographs of the New York art world throughout the 1990s. Every opening he went to, every party and studio visit was documented with his Olympus Stylus. Over the years, he developed roll after roll of film, and he found a processing place in Los Angeles to turn…
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….
Photo: Neon/Everett Collection Exit 8 may be based on a video game, but it feels at least equally guided by the ear-popping pressures caused by a declining birth rate. Before it ever gets to its main action, which involves an infinitely looping set of tile-lined hallways in the depths of the Tokyo metro, director Genki…
Photo: A24/Courtesy Everett Collection The drama surrounding The Drama failed to dramatically curtail audience attendance for A24’s cringe rom-com over its opening weekend in theaters. The spectacle of Zendaya and Robert Pattinson navigating the mother of all pre-wedding “I never really knew you at all” revelations appears to have outshone negative buzz about the film’s…
Contestants have been swap-screwed before, but not like this. Photo: Robert Voets/CBS Spoilers follow for the April 1 episode of Survivor 50. What was Genevieve Mushaluk supposed to do, exactly? The Survivor 50 contestant had been playing one of the best games of the season so far but, last night, went home at the merge…
