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When Sarah Paulson makes an entrance, in character, a spell is cast. The energy around her crackles. What’s she going to say or do? She is a master of the calm seethe and the faux-polite u…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:00AMWednesday, April 10, 2019
Elisabeth Moss is a primal, predatory force in “Her Smell,” a female-centric spin on the classic debauched rock star story. Though writer/director Alex Ross Perry (“Golden Exits”) ha…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:18PMSunday, April 8, 2018
Mean should never feel this warm and fuzzy. Tina Fey’s musical opened on Broadway Sunday night, in a high-budget but watered-down adaptation of her wonderfully nasty, 2004 hit comedy. This…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMSaturday, February 17, 2018
Zosia Mamet takes a step beyond “Girls,” but can’t shed its affectations, in “The Boy Downstairs,” an uneven rom-com from debut feature writer-director Sophie Brooks. Diana…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:19PMThursday, January 11, 2018
A shy 14-year-old from The Bronx struggles with his sexual identity in “Saturday Church,” an indie trying on several identities of its own: Is it a musical? A gritty coming-of-age drama?…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:12PMThursday, January 4, 2018
It’s a challenge for anyone writing a high-school movie: How do you make teen characters believable? Here’s one way: Be a 15-year-old girl. “I got made fun of for being weird and a…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:00PMWednesday, November 1, 2017
He’s an all-American blond cutie who had a hit Disney Channel show, “Austin & Ally,” and sings in a band, R5, alongside siblings Riker, Rocky and Rydel. So naturally Ross Lynch’s…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:46PMThursday, October 19, 2017
“The Snowman” arrives in theaters this week with a flourish of spectacularly bad timing: Not only does its plot revolve around artfully dismembered women, its hero is named — I’m not…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:35PMThursday, September 14, 2017
“I’m really sorry for what’s about to happen,” director Darren Aronofsky said before showing “mother!” at a packed Toronto Film Festival theater on Saturday. Calm down, “Black …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:09PMTuesday, July 11, 2017
If “La La Land” left you cold, take heart: There are better new musicals out there. Exhibit A: the French “Footnotes,” which sets its show tunes in a workers’ strike at a shoe fact…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:30PMThursday, May 18, 2017
If anyone knows the psychology of a bland suburbanite who turns to the dark side, it’s Bryan Cranston. In his new movie, the “Breaking Bad” star takes a different spin on that concept.…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:22PMTuesday, March 14, 2017
A well-done movie musical is a great equalizer: It can make audiences feel like they’re in the front row at a Broadway show without the sticker shock. Bill Condon’s lavish live-action �…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:16PMThursday, March 9, 2017
King Kong, one of the most iconic movie monsters in cinematic history, has gone through a lot of changes — most notably, his height, which varied from scene to scene in the first two itera…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:09PMTuesday, November 22, 2016
Don’t call it a princess movie: Disney’s latest may feature a girl with royal lineage, but she’s more into boats than ball gowns in this crowd-pleaser of a musical, scored by the e…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:45AMFriday, June 10, 2016
“Life moves pretty fast,” says Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) in John Hughes’ 1986 comedy about a high school kid who pulls the ultimate sick day. “If you don’t stop and look a…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:38AMFriday, April 22, 2016
One of Broadway’s hot new musicals features women getting gorily chopped up. Like, a LOT of women. So does this mean “American Psycho” is grossly misogynist? Far from it. Sure, protago…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:39PMFriday, July 24, 2015
Corpse farce sure was in the zeitgeist in the late ’80s: A year before “Weekend at Bernie’s,” Playwrights Horizons hosted the 1988 premiere of this musical comedy, in which a...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:06AMMonday, May 25, 2015
The word of the day, boys and girls, is. . . comeback!Notify your inner 10-year-old-on-too-much-sugar: Pee-wee Herman is in the Playhouse.For audiences of a certain age — or maturity l…
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Sex scenes: they’re not just for gratuitous boob shots anymore! “The Affair” star Ruth Wilson, currently on Broadway with Jake Gyllenhaal, recently spoke out on the one-sidedness of se…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:27PMSaturday, January 24, 2015
It was announced this week that “Glee” and “Whiplash” star Melissa Benoist will play Supergirl in an upcoming CBS series. Now we know who Benoist is — but who is...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:39PMWednesday, December 10, 2014
As a film grad student, you know you’ve hit the jackpot when your cast includes James Franco, Mila Kunis, Jessica Chastain, Zach Braff and even a cameo from “Evil Dead”...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:30PMTuesday, April 22, 2014
At first glance, you’d be forgiven for thinking New York City Ballet member Justin Peck is just an up-and-comer in the chorus; soft-spoken and hipstery-looking, the dancer seems too young.…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:52PMMonday, March 31, 2014
If you want want to be a member of the cool crowd, motor on over to the new musical adaptation of ’80s cult film “Heathers. In the flick, high school...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:35PMThursday, December 12, 2013
Color us stoked: There’s going to be an off-Broadway musical of the ’80s movie “Heathers” in the spring. The highly quotable cult flick, which starred Winona Ryder and Christian Slat…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:57PMMonday, August 19, 2013
‘Slut” is a powerful word.
The term has been around as a slur for promiscuous women for ages; at times, it’s also appropriated by women themselves to combat the idea that being sexuall…
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The short play begins as a very large, hairy man and very beautiful woman are having sex. She’s on top.
The title? “My Fantasy Sex Robot Came In the Mail Today.”
In an era when spamb…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:56PMThursday, January 26, 2012
For anybody who’s ever been annoyed by some idiot texting near them in a dark theater, seeing justice done is sweet. But never more colorfully or symbolically so than at a recent performan…
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When you invite your friends and family to see the movie in which you play a Columbine-style teen mass murderer, you’ve got to be prepared for some awkwardness afterward.
“One friend tol…
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The word of the day, boys and girls, is. . . comeback!
Notify your inner 10-year-old-on-too-much-sugar: Pee-wee Herman is in the Playhouse.
For audiences of a certain age — or maturity lev…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 08:06AM 
