Thursday, September 22, 2016
Denzel Washington makes a belated but splendid debut as a Western hero in Antoine Fuqua’s action-packed, multicultural re-imagining of John Sturges’ 1960 semi-classic, which in truth is …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:53PMThursday, April 21, 2016
The surreally historic 1970 meeting of two icons in the White House gets the dream cast it deserves in Liza Johnson’s hilarious “Elvis & Nixon” — with actors’ actors Michael Sh…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:51PMThursday, April 14, 2016
Patrick Stewart has a blast playing against type as a soft-spoken white supremacist holding a punk rock band as his temporary prisoners in Jeremy Saulnier’s nicely crafted, low-budget come…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:51PMWednesday, April 13, 2016
“Citizen Kane’’ opened 75 years ago on May 1 at the still-extant Palace Theatre on Broadway. But Orson Welles’ masterpiece, universally acclaimed as one of the greatest films to ever…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:14PMThursday, April 7, 2016
Chemistry counts for an awful lot in a romantic comedy, and I’d be hard-pressed to name a more compatible recent screen couple than Anna Kendrick and Sam Rockwell (in spite of their nearly…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:53PMThursday, March 24, 2016
“The Rocky Horror Picture Show’’ has been running continuously in theaters longer than any other movie in history — 40 years — and is among the top-grossing musicals ever released …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:37AMFriday, February 19, 2016
For years I’ve tweeted suggestions that the wonderful Emily Blunt star in the long-in-development remake of “My Fair Lady.’’ Imagine my horror to hear she may instead star in a remak…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:23PMThursday, January 28, 2016
Manhattan’s iconic Ziegfeld Theatre will close its doors for the last time Thursday night. An employee at the door confirmed that after the 10 p.m. screening of “Star Wars: The Force Awa…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:19PMFriday, January 22, 2016
I first reported four years ago that the Ziegfeld Theatre could close because of million-dollar-a-year losses. But I’m still saddened by my colleague Steve Cuozzo’s scoop that Manhattan…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:33PMWednesday, November 4, 2015
Bryan Cranston finally translates his critical acclaim for “Breaking Bad” into an Oscar-caliber performance in darkly comic “Trumbo,’’ playing an eloquent, witty screenwriter who b…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:51PMFriday, October 30, 2015
I’ll be introducing a 90th anniversary screening of “The Phantom of the Opera’’ on Sunday at the United Palace with my colleague Michael Riedel, live organ accompaniment by Ben Model…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:39PMThursday, October 15, 2015
Robert A. Harris, who led a team that famously restored the Oscar-winning 1964 film version of “My Fair Lady” for its 30th anniversary, wasn’t thrilled when he took a look...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:51PMWednesday, September 2, 2015
If you thought Matthew Broderick looked uncomfortable playing “himself” in “Trainwreck,” wait till you get a load of the actor portraying a married man who wonders if he’s …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:37PMMonday, May 25, 2015
Born to Vaudeville parents, Mickey Rooney made his first stage appearance in 1922, before he was two. Ever since, he's been entertaining, and is surely the only person who can boast about wo…
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The 1949 film “On the Town" is famous as the first major Hollywood musical shot on location in New York City, but how much location footage is actually in the...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:36AMWednesday, April 22, 2015
Coming off somewhere between an extended sitcom pilot and a first-draft screenplay, Ross Katz’ sentimental comedy showcases Comedy Central star Nick Kroll as a 40-ish man-boy who discovers…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:24PMThursday, April 9, 2015
Does the Ziegfeld Theatre have a future showing classic movies? I sure hope that’s the case after Cablevision CEO James Dolan told the Hollywood Reporter that the beloved Manhattan venue...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:22AMWednesday, April 1, 2015
An imperious choirmaster (Dustin Hoffman) reluctantly takes a troubled 11-year-old old (Garrett Wareing) with the voice of an angel under his wing in this delightful musical drama. A teacher…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:05PMWednesday, February 25, 2015
Sorry, the beloved “Singin’ in the Rain” isn’t the finest of the legendary MGM musicals. For my money, it’s a close second to “The Band Wagon,’’ which has better music,...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:02PMWednesday, February 11, 2015
Let us now praise Anna Kendrick, who is positively great in the small-scale “The Last Five Years’’ — so utterly wonderful that this adaptation of an off-Broadway musical deserves bet…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:46PMSaturday, January 24, 2015
Orson Welles is remembered as a giant of Hollywood (“Citizen Kane”), radio (“The War of the Worlds”) and theater. But few are aware of his brief, eccentric career as a...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:28PMSaturday, January 17, 2015
Brooklyn legend has it that a teenage Barbra Streisand pointed to the marquee of the Loew’s Kings movie palace and said, “Someday, my name is going to be up there.’’...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:45AMThursday, January 15, 2015
Patrick Stewart knocks it out of the park as a Juilliard School dance teacher forced to spill his biggest secrets in “Match,” which playwright Stephen Belber effectively directed and…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:28PMWednesday, December 24, 2014
Stephen Sondheim’s stage classic “Into the Woods,’’ a dark and subversive musical take on fairy tales, not only survives but triumphs in the composer’s most unlikely collaboration …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:22AMThursday, December 18, 2014
Leapin’ lizards! The evergreen Broadway musical “Annie’’ strays far from its Depression-era roots with truly dismaying results in this crass, charmless, tineared and lead-footed upda…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:19PMThursday, November 20, 2014
One of the handful of people to win Oscars, Tonys and Emmys, Mike Nichols directed just 18 theatrical features over 41 years while devoting significant parts of his career to...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:52PMWednesday, September 24, 2014
The once-ubiquitous “Full Monty” formula is alive, well and still awfully hard to resist in “Pride,” a fact-inspired story of an improbable alliance between gay-rights activists and …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:45PMFriday, August 29, 2014
Dashing, handsome and self-deprecating, Kevin Kline was born to play Errol Flynn. Here, Kline tackles the legendary actor and womanizer — in the final two years of his life, before...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:24AMSaturday, February 2, 2013
It's hard to believe, but Liza Minnelli lost her signature role as the free-spirited Sally Bowles to English actress Jill Haworth when the envelope-pushing musical “Cabaret” was original…
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Danny DeVito is one busy guy. The 67-year-old’s currently shooting the eighth season of his TV sitcom “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,’’ which bows Oct. 11 — a day before his …
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