Even though the name Andrew Wilk might not be instantly recognizable to arts lovers, he’s a man we owe a great deal to in terms of making the performing arts accessible for people all over the world. As the executive producer for the award winning Li …Read more
Oliver Hirschbiegel first gained international attention for his taut character study Downfall in which he examined the last ten days in Hitler’s life with some accusing him of trying to humanize one of the most detestable figures that ever lived. In …Read more
Polaroid cameras have recently made a comeback but a portrait photographer by the name of Elsa Dorfman was the original instant film connoisseur. And this original Polaroid camera was no little handheld device that created an image one could easily f …Read more
A young girl (Oona Laurence) wanders through the forest, singing softly to herself, searching of mushrooms. It is 1863 and we are in the deep South. Canons rumble far off. The air is drenched in light, and cicadas maintain a thrum of sound. With a st …Read more
The Bad Batch opens with an institutional announcement over the title screens, alerting guards to exercise utmost caution around ‘bad batch’ prisoners. Once we are finally given a picture to go with the dire, looping announcement, we see an absurdly …Read more
As the United States of America celebrates it’s year of independence, what better way to celebrate than firing up the grill, enjoying a drink (responsibly), and then heading inside and watching a movie. You’ve got a lot of options, and we at StageBud …Read more
Last March in Manhattan, a bronze statue of a spunky young girl was installed such that she appeared to face down the famed charging bull of Wall Street. Fists to hips, legs akimbo, she is a cute, anodyne expression of female power. I couldn’t help t …Read more
More than a decade after depicting Adolf Hitler’s last days in Dowfall, director Oliver Hirschbiegel, is covering the Third Reich from a different angle in 13 Minutes which concentrates on the years leading up to WWII and the failed attempt by Georg …Read more
Producer Judd Apatow begets yet another not-quite comedy from a comedian, derived from personal history. In this rendition of a comic in arrested development, Pakistan-born Kumail Nanjiani (Silicon Valley, most notably), plays a version of himself: a …Read more
It’s hard to say if the much-impersonated, caricature compatible Ian Paisley would be better inhabited in the movie version of his life by Jack Lemmon or Walter Matthau. It’s harder to imagine either one playing Martin McGuinness. All four are now de …Read more
