Movies
Review: Japan’s “Drive My Car” Is Winning All the Critics Prizes for a Reason, It’s the Only Contemporary Drama
Life moves slowly. Loss. Grief. So much happens in Ryusuke Hamaguchi's "Drive My Car," Japan’s entry for the Best International Film Academy Award, it...
Business
Steady “Spider Man” Flies to $328 Million on 6th Day of Release With No End in Sight
Spider Man, Spider Man, does whatever a spider can.
Actually, thank God spiders can't really do what Peter Parker can nowadays. Otherwise, the world might...
Theater
Broadway COVID Emergency: Actor Knocked Out by Virus, Playwright Steps in and Takes Over Role
What to do when COVID comes for a Broadway cast right before it's curtain up?
Last night on Broadway the new, highly praised play "Thoughts...
Books
Ringo Starr Publishing “Closest Thing to a Memoir” He’s Had So Far, With New Stories and Pictures
"Lifted" is the strange name of a book we will want to read. It's by Ringo Starr, and according to sources, it's the closest...
Theater
UPDATE: Sorting Out the Mysterious Announcement of an Unlikely “West Side Story” Sequel as Told in Forbes.com
UPDATE 12/30/21: Marc Hershberg wrote a follow up story to his original one about all this. Here's the link. Hershberg tells me he wrote...
awards
Oscars: French “Horror” Film “Titane,” Submitted by France Fails to Make Short List, Almodovar Missing for A Stupid Reason
The Academy has spoken. The Foreign Film branch has announced its shortlist and left off Julia Ducournau's "Titane," unlikely winner of this year's Palme...
Movies
Oscars: Academy Short List for Best Songs Includes Diane Warren, Beyonce, Lin Manuel Miranda, JHud, Van Morrison
Here's the Academy short list for Best Song. Included are some perennials like Diane Warren for her great song, "Somehow You Do" from a...
awards
COVID ‘Cron Starts Causing Trouble: New York Film Critics Postpone January 10th Ceremony
The New York Film Critics Circle has postponed its January 10th awards ceremony.
“Out of safety concerns for our award winners and our members, we’ve...