Twenty years ago, Chicago swept the Oscars, scoring a major Miramax victory and helping reassure the comeback of the movie musical with six wins out of thirteen nominations, including one…
Acts of deceptions are all around in Emily Feldman’s middling The Best We Could, an Our Town-inspired glance at a family in transition. Notice that I did not say “examination,”…
The Oscars are just a few short days away, and I’d like to praise RHONJ for this week’s unintentional throwback to the awards from 24 years ago, when Shakespeare in…
In M3gan, a variation on the Victor Frankenstein story updated by Akela Cooper (Malignant) and James Wan (the Insidious and Saw franchises, and perhaps any other contemporary movie involving sharp…
1992 was not only a banner year for movies, it was also a banner year for movie music – more than the Academy Award category for Best Song could adequately…
A search for order, a desire to connect, a job that can make ends meet without first grabbing your soul – are these things too much to ask? Those were…
Between his entry in the Star Wars saga and a current Oscar nomination for Glass Onion, the second installment in his self-created Knives Out universe, writer-director Rian Johnson’s film currency…
The relationship between teacher and student in Letters from Max, a ritual, receiving its world premiere at Signature Theatre Company, starts off sweet and ends bittersweet. But there is…
Are we really here again? Thirteen seasons into The Real Housewives of New Jersey, and we’re back to the show’s main storyline being the War of the Gorgas. It’s not…
Where did Thomas Bradshaw go? I don’t mean literally; I’m aware that he’s still around on the planet, and that he currently serves as a department chair at Northwestern University’s…
