In the instances where it’s not going hard, Dicks is a surprisingly flaccid affair.
The film traces, to cosmic and absurd ends, how tragedy is birthed by, well, birth itself.
Pictures from Home is a frantically verbal adaptation that’s not given to subtlety.
HBO’s The Gilded Age considers the social currents of the historical moment, alluringly cutting through the delusions of its aristocrats.
Director Shawn Christensen’s film maddeningly over-complicates each of its numerous storylines.
The film is essentially an exercise in forcing a female genius back into her proper place of dependence on men.
One way to recognize first-rate playwrights is to seek moments of surprising inspiration in their more unambitious plays.
The second recent release that aims to channel great, time-honored storytelling without being able to tell a great story.
We sat down with Beane in the historic Lyceum theater to talk about his works now playing on Broadway.
For all its pomp and fabulosity, Mirror Mirror is actually Tarsem Singh’s most minimalistic effort.
“Hakuna Matata” would mean never having to be subjected to The Lion King ever again, much less having Simba’s growing pains coming at your face in 3D.
In The Lion King, spectacle dominates meaning to frequently reductive effect.
Parents faced with overexcited children on Christmas Eve now have the perfect way to get them to sleep.
Astro Boy succeeds at creating a complex world filled with second-class robots and sometimes careless, greedy humans.
Swing Vote is as tired as its stunt of casting a dozen cable-news blowhards as themselves.
It’s hard to envision a worse big-budget film version of Mel Brooks’s Tony Award-winning musical The Producers than this dreadfully lifeless affair.
You saw Brother Bear in theaters but skipped the truly subversive Teacher’s Pet? Here’s your chance to fix that.
Don’t miss the deleted scenes for further proof that Paris Hilton’s skankdom is a force to be reckoned with.
When Spot’s desire is granted by an eeeeeevil scientist, the film suddenly morphs into a dissatisfying and uncomfortable concoction.
Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! is Puppy Love 101 for the MTV generation.