POSTED // Jul 19,2011 - If you’re a small theater company putting on a Shakespearean play, you’re facing a touchy balance of upside and downside: the advantage of beginning with a terrific text

POSTED // Jul 19,2011 - Mama Rose (Teresa Sanderson) is a force of nature—a stage mother whose sheer determination keeps her two young daughters performing during the dying days of Depression-era vaudeville.

POSTED // Jul 15,2011 - In the most recent efforts of his 30-year documentary-filmmaking career, Errol Morris has found himself fascinated by—and fascinated us with—the stories of people commonly accepted to be villains

POSTED // Jul 15,2011 - If you’ve followed the cinematic adventures of Harry Potter over the past decade, it’s hard to imagine how Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 could fail.

POSTED // Jul 11,2011 - KRCL 90.9 FM’s Radioactive host Troy Williams appears in the documentary Tabloid from Oscar-winning director Errol Morris ...

POSTED // Jul 8,2011 - This 2011 “Summer of the Sequel” has been a reminder that Hollywood never wants to leave money on the table.

POSTED // Jul 1,2011 - During the prologue of Transformers: Dark of the Moon—director Michael Bay’s latest feature-length rolling-around-in-piles-of-money cinemajaculation—we learn a plot-crucial piece of revisionist history.

POSTED // Jul 1,2011 - Plenty of coverage of writer/director Mike Mills’ Beginners has focused on how the filmmaker’s past influenced the story.

POSTED // Jun 24,2011 - Dear friends: I know it’s been lonely. We’ve seen the conventional wisdom grow that Pixar has had a nearly perfect 15-year run of features ...

POSTED // Jun 17,2011 - Writing about a Terrence Malick film—like the majestic, instantlyargument-provoking The Tree of Life—somehow can’t help turning into writing about the way people generally react to a