Posts Tagged ‘director’
Illuminating
StageAs the audience files in before the start of Amphibian Stage Production’s Gutenberg! The Musical!, the bellow of Broadway legend Ethel Merman charges out from the sound system.
Steel Reserve
Cole WilliamsAnother big superhero movie hits theaters this week, but a few things separate it from the rest that have come out recently.
The Moore We See …
Director Tom Kalin’s epic family drama Savage Grace is hitched — wisely and successfully — to a single star.JIMMY FOWLER
Movies about very rich, very unhappy families – genre classics such as Ordinary People and Sidney Lumet’s version of Long Day’s Journey into Night – offer us working-class filmgoers a chance to indulge a...
Glove the Blood
Vampire-boxers, vampires, and non-Hollywood folk duke it out in The Butterfly Connection’s new show.Stage
Give theatergoers a knotty plot to unravel, new ideas to understand, complex issues to mull over, and chances are they’ll enjoy the mental work involved.
Red Stars
Big TicketGuest dancers in gala showstopping performance pieces will highlight Metropolitan Classical Ballet’s season-closing program, An Evening with the Stars, Saturday in Bass Performance Hall.
Aliens in America
A character actor’s showcase role isn’t enough to fill out the small-scaled The Visitor.Kristian Lin
Richard Jenkins is one of those actors you’ve probably seen several times without his name sticking in your memory.
Indy Film
The latest Indiana Jones adventure is a familiar ride and worth the wait.Kristian Lin
Let’s get right to it: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is quite a bit of fun.
Q’d Up
Fort Worth’s gay film fest turns 10, with angst, accomplishments – and fewer rainbow flags.Jimmy Fowler
Pretend you’re hitting the Netflix web site to rent a movie for the weekend, and these are your only choices: a romantic comedy starring Ashton Kutcher and Patrick Dempsey as star-crossed lovers, an action thriller featur...
Rock of Aged
The seniors in the documentary Young@Heart are never too old to learn new songs.Kristian Lin
If you saw the Rolling Stones’ concert film Shine a Light and were impressed by the energy of those sexagenarian band members, you should check out another concert film released this week that’s about an even older ...
Pas de Grand
Big TicketFor its spring program, Metropolitan Classical Ballet makes a deep bow to Tchaikovsky.