"The Captive" offers the intriguing concept of "Don Quixote's" author viewed through a lens more redolent of "Arabian Nights," spinning tales to keep himself alive while a hostage of Moors i…
It is a given among the comfortable that most crime happens because there are bad people. It's a certainty among the disadvantaged, however, that some crime happens because those without fin…
A cheerfully macabre comedy of misunderstandings, lies and delusion, "Terrestrial" teases with the promise of science-fiction " but it turns out the kind of fantasy at work here is less abou…
Prison dramas usually fall into three categories: They're either tales of violent intrigue, redemption or a rocky road through one to the other. "Inside" has a different feel, since its prim…
With science denialism and theocratic politics both on the rise, it's an opportune moment to revisit the life of Galileo Galilei, whose discoveries about the cosmos four centuries ago were c…
While the potential is still there for a musicalized "R&M" to improve upon its source, as "Legally Blonde" did, at present this loud, effortful stab at a crowdpleaser goes in the opposit…
An evening that feels like a brash but cloddish welding of ill-matched parts beside the original film's smooth, mosaic-like assembly.
This slick, entertaining portrait won't provide many surprises for those who've followed the subject's high-profile career, but should fascinate the less familiar.
With sets and costumes aiming for a vaguely '60s/'70s feel, "Lucky Stiff" onscreen is a very light black comedy in a broad, campy tenor.
A little charm goes but a little way in "An Audience with Meow Meow," a show with a title character whose program bio description as a "post-post-modern diva" likewise overestimates her…