Beneath the shiny surface of an almost-universal stamp of approval among movie critics, Rian Johnson’s new chapter in the Star Wars saga, Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi, has polarized the fandom like nothing has since the introduction of Jar Jar Binks.
Gary Oldman stars as Winston Churchill in director Joe Wright’s new film. Oldman completely sells the transformation, offering up the range of the man from supremely self-confident to near-broken.
What emerges at the core of del Toro’s new film is a revelation of what “humanness” means.
Saturday, Dec. 16: One of Stephen Sondheim’s darkest stageworks — and that’s saying something — Follies, which debuted in 1971, doesn’t get revived very often, despite being regarded as a classic of musical theater. National Theatre’s revival has been called “superb.”
Friday and Saturday, Dec. 15-16: the movie screen will be rolled up and the Rosendale Theatre stage dressed for live performances of two gems from the long and distinguished career of the “Poet Laureate of Radio,” Norman Corwin: The Plot to Overthrow Christmas and The Anatomy of Sound.
This weekend: Catch this seasonal ballet favorite at the Bardavon and UPAC.
Coco’s look is derived from the friendly-skeleton iconography of Día de los Muertos celebrations and the delightfully lurid colors of the monster figurines known in Mexico as alebrijes.
Opening on Friday, December 1, the show runs for three weekends, recreating a 1943 Christmas Eve broadcast.
The freshly renovated Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC) in Midtown Kingston will reopen its doors this weekend after six months of construction. The 1,500-seat theater, which was built in 1927, was rescued from threatened demolition in the 1970s and added to the National Register of Historic Properties.
Some may roll their eyes at the prospect of yet another kickass heroine at a time when kickass heroines are in peril of being nominated Cliché of the Year. Others will happily point to Frances McDormand’s latest creation as the personification of the zeitgeist, with the movie’s release coinciding with a tsunami of revelations about sexual assaults.