A few months ago, director Ruben Fleischer tried to convince the world that his would-be super-franchise starter, Venom, is something it very much isn’t. Speaking to the huddled masses at San Diego Comic-Con, he said the titular protagonist would be a “grittier, grounded, complicated character,” and that there are “no
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At the very least, Christian Bale has proved once again that he’s basically able to morph into whatever form he pleases. In this case, Bale’s playing Dick Cheney in Big Short director Adam McKay’s biopic Vice, which also stars Amy Adams as Lynne Cheney, Steve Carell as Donald Rumsfeld, and
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Eric Idle would still be a comedy legend if all he’d ever done was Monty Python’s Flying Circus (1969–1974), still one of the greatest and definitely among the most influential sketch-comedy shows ever. But he did more than that, writing and acting for all those Python comedy records and movies
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When Alice Isn’t Dead fires on all cylinders, it moves like music. “It is said they live in roadside places / in the bathrooms at gas stations / in commuter parking lots and out back-of-highway fast-food places,” narrates the main character, an anxiety-ridden truck driver searching for her missing wife.
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As if the details of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s past behavior weren’t already painful enough, on Monday night, the New York Times reported that he was once involved in a bar fight with a man he thought was the lead singer of that mostly white reggae band UB40 (of
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Heidi Waleson’s Mad Scenes and Exit Arias traces the history of New York City Opera, from its founding in 1943 as the “People’s Opera” to the night, 70 years later, when executive director George Steel presided over an ignominious closure. Waleson talked with her fellow critic Justin Davidson about how
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When New York City Opera declared bankruptcy and went dark in 2013, its closure was blamed mostly on the global financial crisis. (Though NYCO is not dead: It was revived in 2016 and is trying to nurse itself back to health.) In Mad Scenes and Exit Arias: The Death of the
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This weekend, A Star Is Born will AHHHH-HAAA-AHHHH its way into American cineplexes and a lot of people will praise Lady Gaga, who gives a stellar performance as the female lead, Ally. A lot of those people will express astonishment that she knocked it out of the park on her
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