The suggestion was made during Monday’s Emmy awards that Idris Elba should have won, like, a million Emmys for “The Wire.” Of course he should have. HBO’s Baltimore-set, David Simon-written drama received little Emmy love during its its five-season run (two nominations for Simon’s writing, no wins),...
Julie Chen will exit her post as a co-host of CBS' daytime series "The Talk" on the heels of her husband Leslie Moonves' forced resignation as chairman-CEO of CBS Corporation, according to published reports. Chen is expected to sign off the show with a pre-taped message on Tuesday, CNN reported....
Maybe it doesn’t seem so shocking to some, because we have already seen the sins of patriarchy strip a top-rated news organization of its senior management and biggest star in the space of a year. Roger Ailes and Bill O’Reilly were pushed out in a nine-month span at Fox News in 2016 and 2017. Longtime...
Prepare to be appalled by the artifacts on view in the “Hateful Things” exhibit. Who wouldn’t be? It may be that you’re offended by the metal bank from the 1920s of an African man with stereotypical facial features and his hand outstretched. Feed the bank coins, and the man’s eyes roll back. Or...
That conflicted slicer is back, dispensing his peculiar brand of justice with wicked, if ever so tuneful, abandon, in a lean revival of “Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street” at Rep Stage. Stephen Sondheim’s brilliant musical, inspired by a Victorian-era potboiler, has never lost its...
“Dancing At Lughnasa” is a nostalgic look at a family of five unmarried sisters in 1936 Ireland. The Mundy sisters are caring for their older brother, Jack, a Catholic priest who was sent home under suspicious circumstances after ministering in Africa for 25 years. Their story is narrated by Michael,...
Early in “Dancing at Lughnasa,” the finely textured memory play by Brian Friel receiving an effective revival at Everyman Theatre, the narrator sets the scene — a rural Irish home shared by his relatives in the summer of 1936. “Even though I was only a child of 7 at the time,” he says, “I had a...
Even in the well-trod genre that is the ’80s drug movie, the true-life story of teen drug kingpin Ricky Wershe Jr., a.k.a. White Boy Rick, stands out.
Take a prog-rock album cover, cross it with a trashy 1980s horror paperback, throw in one gloriously gonzo Nicolas Cage performance, and that’s “Mandy.” Director Panos Cosmatos’ visionary revenge thriller is a dreamy genre exercise that’ll appeal to connoisseurs — though it may flummox anyone just...
“Didn't we already get an ‘Unbroken' movie?” you might ask. Nevertheless, faith-based film distributor PureFlix serves up “Unbroken: Path to Redemption” as a coda, or a minor corrective, to Angelina Jolie's 2014 film about the amazing World War II survival story of Olympic runner Louis Zamperini....
More than once in “The Predator,” a slicked-up, snarked-out piece of action-comedy bloodletting from the writer-director Shane Black, the characters pause to debate whether their enemy really deserves the name he’s been given. Considering the relative patience and sophistication with which this...