30 stories by "LOU LUMENICK"
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 best…
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 Shannon as t…
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 comedy…
"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 come ou…
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 1…
"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 in North A…
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 remake of …
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 Awakens…
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's…
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 bucked the …
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 and a m…
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...
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 gay in…
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…
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...
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 y…
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...
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…
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,...
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 better...
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...
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.''...
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 a…
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 with Disne…
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 update. The …
