Movie Review: A Smell of Wine, Cheap Perfume and Another Era
Tom Cruise stars in "Rock of Ages," a musical, based on the Broadway show, set in the 1980s and featuring rock songs of the time.
Tom Cruise stars in "Rock of Ages," a musical, based on the Broadway show, set in the 1980s and featuring rock songs of the time.
A state competition for California high school students is the subject of Alex Rotaru's documentary "Shakespeare High."
The director Alan Brown redirects the "Romeo and Juliet" narrative from interfamily rivalry to intrainstitutional homophobia.
"Carol Channing: Larger Than Life," a documentary by Dori Berinstein, chronicles the career of that theatrical clown "with huge saucer eyes, gigantic red lips and a massive smile."
In "Carnage," Roman Polanski's spry adaptation of Yasmina Reza's play, two couples show that beneath the surface of civilized behavior lurks animal impulses.
In his directing debut Ralph Fiennes adds modern weaponry to Shakespeare's "Coriolanus."
The premise that the plays and poems commonly attributed to William Shakespeare were actually the work of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, is hardly new.
In "The Sons of Tennessee Williams," the documentarian Tim Wolff tracks a half-century of the gay civil-rights movement through the lens of Mardi Gras celebrations in New Orleans.
A playwright's short and tragic life is recounted in a layered form, using actors lip-syncing actual interviews.