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DC on the TV: Why We Love Shows About the Nation's Capital
This post originally appeared at The Stake. On Scandal, Olivia Pope's merry band of DC fixers call themselves "gladiators." GLADIATORS. Think about that for a second. This is what a cultural theorist...
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New Movies for Foodies
Popcorn is the perfect crunchy, salty accompaniment to film viewing, but it might be insufficient while watching two new mouth-watering movies -- Tasting Menu, opening today at Manhattan's Quad Cinema,...
View ArticleThere Is Still a Category Missing at the Academy Awards
The blockbuster season is officially upon us. In the next few months, Hollywood will break out the big guns with sequels to major franchises like The Amazing Spider-Man 2, reboots like Transformers:...
View ArticleThings I Learned From James Franco
I've been thinking about James Franco a lot lately. Okay, in the wake of his recent controversy, this isn't going to sound great. I was prepared to write this beautiful love letter to James Franco and...
View ArticleThe Mowgli's: Peace, Love and Taxes
For The Mowgli's, things are cheaper by the dozen... except for cab fare. The seven-person group travels in a 15-seat van, accompanied by friends, crew, and two dogs, in a scenario more reminiscent of...
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92 Artists Drew Our Favorite Female Disney and Pixar Characters
Snow White by Jessie Slipchinsky (@jslipchi) Disney's female heroines and villainesses stand proudly amongst the most longstanding and beloved fictional characters -- both online and off. Unusually...
View ArticleThe Woody Persona: Bullets Over Broadway and Fading Gigolo
In the hilarious old-school tradition, Bullets Over Broadway at the St. James Theater, based on Woody Allen's 1994 film of the same name, features a writer who makes a Faustian bargain with a mob boss,...
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Once Again, Moss Hart's Name Shines on Broadway
Moss Hart -- more than fifty years after his death, his name is back up in lights on Broadway with the smash new stage adaptation of his 1959 memoir, Act One, at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre. A...
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Dog Ears Music: Volume 328
One String SamLegendary diddley bow-player One String Sam (a.k.a. Sam Wilson) was discovered busking on the streets of Motor City by Joe Von Battle, who bestowed Wilson his nom de plume in honor of...
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Bombshell Salli Richardson-Whitfield
Sophia Loren believes, "Sex appeal is 50 percent what you've got and 50 percent what people think you've got." Salli Richardson Whitfield, one of the most beautiful women in show business and an...
View Article'Heaven Is For Real' Is the Perfect Easter Movie
When Hollywood decided to make a movie of Todd Burpo's international bestseller, Heaven Is For Real, they could have really messed it up. They could have made it too saccharine; they could have made it...
View ArticleBlack Widow vs. The Boy's Club: Give Marvel's Leading Lady Her Own Movie!
Regardless of the depths of one's personal investment in the current crop of superhero movies, it's hard to deny the level of ambition put forth by Marvel in the curating of their ever-developing...
View ArticleTranscending Complacency on Superintelligent Machines
As the Hollywood blockbuster Transcendence debuts this weekend with Johnny Depp, Morgan Freeman and clashing visions for the future of humanity, it's tempting to dismiss the notion of highly...
View ArticleHallmark Hall of Fame's In My Dreams Strikes a Romantic Chord
Hallmark Hall of Fame's latest offering In My Dreams may be premiering on Easter Sunday night but the content of the film is worthy of a Valentine's Day schedule. This is HHoF's most romantic offering...
View ArticleMiddle-aged and Invisible at Coachella
Remember when you were a teenager -- or even in your early 20s -- and you walked into a party or a concert feeling a little uncomfortable and kind of unsettled until you finally see a familiar face?...
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Deadbeat and Dollhouse: Conversations With James Iha and Melanie Martinez
A Conversation with James Iha Mike Ragogna: Let's get into this Deadbeat series. You're doing the new music for this Hulu series, what do you think about it? James Iha: I like it a lot. It's a funny...
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My Vinyl Offer
We raised our twin daughters on Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Ella Jenkins, Tom Paxton, and assorted other folk singers who recorded children's albums. They enjoyed them as toddlers and adolescents, but...
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Land Ho! At the Tribeca Film Festival (VIDEO)
Land Ho!, a road trip comedy co-written/directed by filmmakers Martha Stephens and Aaron Katz, follows two retirees through the nightclubs and other dangers of Iceland. It was bought by premiere indie...
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Marisa Tomei, John Lithgow and Alfred Molina at Tribeca Film Festival (VIDEO)
Screening at the Tribeca Film Festival next week, Love is Strange is an adult love story by veteran indie filmmaker Ira Sachs (Keep the Lights On, Married Life), starring John Lithgow, Alfred Molina...
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Kurt Russell and The Battered Bastards of Baseball (VIDEO)
Before Kurt Russell was a grown-up movie star, he was a ballplayer. Playing the Tribeca Film Festival this week is The Battered Bastards of Baseball, which tells the story of an independent minor...
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