Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey’s Next to Normal is essentially a show about a person’s right to pain. Diana (Carman Napier) is a suburban housewife dealing with intense bipolar disorder, her unexpected mood swings bring chaos to her family formed by husba …Read more

The New York Film Festival kicked off tonight with the world premiere of David Fincher’s Gone Girl (read all of our festival coverage here). Based on the bestseller by Gillian Flynn, the film focuses on the mysterious disappearance of Amy Dunne (Rosa …Read more

Set in sunny Greece during the early 1960’s and based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith, The Two Faces of January will at first make you think of Anthony Minghella’s adaptation of The Talented Mr. Ripley, but while the latter turns into a full blown, …Read more

Few, if any, contemporary artists provoke the intense reactions elicited by Björk. The Icelandic eccentric has built an entire career on polarizing elements that have ranged from orchestral trip-hop to whole albums made using only human voices and gu …Read more

Director Terry Gilliam has stated, “when I made Brazil in 1984, I was trying to paint a picture of the world I thought we were living in then. The Zero Theorem is a glimpse of the world I think we are living in now”. A spiritual companion in more tha …Read more

Asia Argento’s Misunderstood is a coming-of-age film that more often than not relies on extreme stylization which sadly takes away from the heart of the story. Argento, is the daughter one of the most influential iconoclasts of horror cinema, and her …Read more

In The Guest, Dan Stevens doesn’t simply shed his Downton Abbey persona; he kills it, pours gasoline on it, sets it on fire and then sends it in a rocket to the moon. Stevens plays David, a dashing soldier that knocks on the door of the Peterson fami …Read more

Many musicals about real life people tend to follow a specific formula: they set their plot in an intimate setting the likes of which the real life artist would have performed in, they build a setlist comprised of their greatest hits and then they ad …Read more

Fabulous! a new musical with book and lyrics by Dan Derby and music by Michael Rheault, advertises itself as “the queen of new musical comedies!” and you have to give it points for its optimism and energy. Its execution however, leaves a bit to be de …Read more

The best parodies are those that not only trivialize and satirize the elements and traits of their subject, but those that do so because its creators are so versed in the matter, that the jokes land with equal amounts of humor and heart. Bob and Tobl …Read more