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 und…
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") has cited …
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 i…
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, Mame…
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? A f…
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 artsy…
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 eyes li…
"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 kidding…
"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 Swan" guy. Vie…
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 factory. Sexy,…
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. The t…
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 "Beaut…
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 iterati…
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 ever-…
"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 around once…
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, protagonist P…
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...
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…
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 sex scen…
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...
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"...
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...
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...
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 Slater,...
'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 sexually acti…