Asher LubertoFilm
The most obvious thing that "Good Boys" is missing is calmness. Also, bleakness and self-seriousness. In other words, it's tremendous fun, and none of the things that have plagued raunchy comedies this summer season. Just when you thought another political message was going to come ...
Brent GoldmanFilm
At least among a younger generation, the absurd true story of legendary carmaker John DeLorean isn't as well known as it should be. "Driven" gives audiences the chance to uncover the wild tale. Towards the end of the 70s, a drug-running pilot named Jim Hoffman ...
Brent GoldmanFilm
When you see Guillermo del Toro's name attached to anything, even as a producer, it's hard not to get excited. The man is simply a genius at creating fantastical, horrifying and mythical worlds. He's the king of creating monsters and creatures. So when Scary Stories To Tell In The ...
Asher LubertoFilm
Jennifer Kent's sophomore feature--her last film was the terrifically taught "Babadook"-- opens with a close-up. If you look closely, it's a face on the verge of giving up. The time is the 19th century. The place is Tasmania. The heroine, Clare (Aisling Francioisi), is lying in ...
Nella VeraTheaterLondon,
Nicholas Hytner’s new production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is notable for the casting of Gwendoline Christie (fan favorite Brienne of Tarth in HBO’s “Game of Thrones”) as the Fairy Queen but audience members who were expecting a traditional Titania may be surprised to find that many of her ...
Lynne FriedmannTheater
“The Underpants” will get you hot under the collar but not as intended by author Steve Martin. Martin’s adaptation of an early 20th century German play that satirizes middle-class morals centers on the fallout when a woman’s Edwardian-era underpants fall to her ankles after she leaps ...
Asher LubertoFilm
"Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbes and Shaw" is as overwrought as its title. It's also overlong, overblown and over-the-top. That's nothing new for a series known for its over-the-topness. Explosions, car chases and exploding car chases might as well be mistaken for realism in this ...
Brent GoldmanFilm
Don't meet your heroes is how the old saying goes. They'll just let you down. Well, The Peanut Butter Falcon - from writer and directors Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartzis – is here to say otherwise. Zak (the show-stealing Zack Gottsagen), a young man with downs ...
Toba SingerDanceSan Francisco,
The pieces chosen for the opener and closer of this year’s Stern Grove San Francisco Ballet program proved the best fit for the venerable if quirky raked stage with brown panel backdrop, like you’ve seen on TV in the “Better Call Saul” office. George Balanchine’s 1952 work, “Scotch Symphony,” ...
Ariadne MikouDanceItaly,
The Teatro Massimo Βallet (TMB) company is one of the remaining state-subsidised ballet companies in Italy that together with La Scala of Milan, Teatro dell’ Opera of Rome and the Opera of Naples are associated with a National Opera House. Architecturally speaking, the Teatro Massimo of Palermo – officially ...
