Stage productions are filmed for the cinema all the time " The Met: Live in HD, National Theatre Live and the recent West End musical "Everybody's Talking About Jamie," among countless other…
The corn is as high as an elephant's eye, and so is my blood pressure, thanks to the revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!" In director Daniel Fish's pretentious production " which…
Even before watching "Shazam!," the new DC superhero movie starring Zachary Levi, you already know it won't take itself too seriously. Why? There's an exclamation point in the title. Such ma…
Disney kicks off another crop of live-action remakes of cartoon classics with "Dumbo." Thankfully before slapping us with realistic singing lions and an indigo Will Smith later this year, th…
A slasher is on the loose, whipping out a razor blade and slicing helpless bystanders without motive or provocation. Flames shoot out of manholes on one of the city's busiest streets just st…
Imagine that you're at the Times Square TKTS booth looking for a Broadway show to see. You glance up at the board and notice four conspicuous titles: "The Office: The Musical," "Cubicle!," "…
Five months ago, it would have been a practical move to redub the Oscars the Bradleys. "A Star Is Born," Bradley Cooper's freshman directorial effort, scored smashing reviews out of the Veni…
PARK CITY, Utah " When Zac Efron sang "Breaking Free" in 2006's "High School Musical," little did we know he meant out of police custody. But 13 years later the actor has gone from playing a…
“The Upside" has a downside: We've seen it a million times before. Onstage and on-screen, crotchety rich people are changed forever by fun-but-flawed poor people. It's become a genre, …
American holiday activities are worse than coal in a stocking. Each year, we schlep to super malls and force crying children to pose with creeper Santas. We trudge to local productions of "T…
Broadway fans love to whine about movie adaptations overtaking their beloved theaters. But can't movie buffs also complain about their favorite films getting ruined by the stage? I will " be…
Director Orson Welles' latest movie hits theaters Friday " 33 years after he died. "The Other Side of the Wind," the famed filmmaker's final picture, has been in post-production for nearly 5…
Lucas Hedges and Michael Cera play allies in Broadway's "The Waverly Gallery," but offstage, they're practically a vaudeville act. And while they've both been around " Hedges was an Oscar no…
What a haul-o-ween! The latest "Halloween" sequel, starring a returning Jamie Lee Curtis, is set to break a franchise box-office record, taking in a projected $50 million this weekend. (It's…
They’re Brexiting all the way to New York. "The Nap," "Girl From the North Country" and "The Ferryman" are just a few of the shows that have leaped across the pond and landed on or off…
Lady Gaga has traveled by egg, donned skirt steak and taken part in a TV blood orgy. But her biggest transformation occurs in the new film "A Star Is Born." In it, she becomes an Oscar-worth…
Rescue me, Elmo! That's what you'll shout if you're trapped in a movie theater playing "The Happytime Murders," the wretched puppets-behaving-badly comedy directed by Brian Henson. The son o…
Don’t be fooled by its awful title. "The Spy Who Dumped Me" is the rare secret-agent spoof that doesn't double-O-suck. You can thank the awesome fights for that. During the first five …
Intermission, all I ever wanted! The new musical "Head Over Heels," which opened Thursday on Broadway, takes the songs of '80s American girl group the Go-Go's, plops them in a British story …
“The Equalizer" should be locked in a room with "The Terminator." Then this lousy series would finally be killed off. Denzel Washington is back in the sequel to his 2014 action film, w…
Ten years ago, "Mamma Mia!" felt like the result of one too many shots of ouzo. Charming on Broadway, it was bonkers on-screen: a romantic comedy set on a Greek island told through ABBA song…
Want room to spread out? Head to the St. James Theatre on Broadway, where empty seats abound at the musical "Frozen." But isn't Disney's story of ice queen Elsa and sister Anna supposed to b…
The Tony Awards are not always as good as the Broadway season they’re celebrating " sometimes they’re much better! Take Sunday night’s ceremony honoring the best of New Yor…
"A Star Is Born"? More like "A Star Is Reincarnated." The trailer for the new remake of the 1937 classic romance, in which Lady Gaga plays the title character, dropped Wednesday. In it, Moth…
When John Cameron Mitchell wrote and starred in the drag musical "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" in 1998, his theater pals were stumped. "They didn't understand why I was doing it," Mitchell, 55…