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Stage Door: The King and I
11 hours ago
This soundtrack got a lot of play during my childhoodWith Tony season fast approaching, it's time to revive our stage column and try to hit the shows that might be competing this year. But we'll start with a throwback to last season, the revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein's The King and I which most everyone knows from its 1956 big screen adaptation which won 5 Oscars (albeit in a weird Academy year) and hopefully not from that 1999 Jodie Foster movie Anna and the King.
For those who aren't well versed in Broadway mechanics there's generally a few weeks of performances called "previews" wherein shows are technically not "open" and yet they're playing every night as they approach opening night. It's the easiest time to get tickets to almost anything so if you miss the previews good luck! Other avid theatergoers might have a different take but I've found that as a general rule »
- NATHANIEL R
Beauty vs Beast: Irish Gangs Be Slashin'
15 hours ago
Jason from Mnpp here with this week's "Beauty vs Beast" -- I don't know if its my walk to work in Lower Manhattan every day or what but you'd be surprised (really, because literally nobody says this) at how often Martin Scorsese's 2002 film Gangs of New York comes to my mind. I mean clearly the nieghborhoods look a little bit different but whenever I look off towards the river I think to myself, "Self, a boat could totally shoot a cannon at you right now." So thanks for that, Gangs of New York. One more New York stress I don't need!
Anyway this morning we're thinking green thanks to the approaching St. Patrick's Day holiday, and I figured it was time to turn that anxiety into action -- it's the angry Irish laddy versus the Original New York Nativist Nightmare (pre-dating Donald Trump by a couple centuries)...
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- JA
Home Theater: What to watch from your bunker.
17 hours ago
It's your bi-weekly blend of tasty new releases on DVD/Blu-Ray and the ever shifting entrees from streaming services. I'm totally depressed about the state of the world today as we head to another round of catastrophic primaries tomorrow but let's jump right in.
Newish On DVD/Bluray
• Alvin & Chipmunks 4 - a sure sign of the apocalypse
• The Big Short - about the financial apocalypse
• Brooklyn - wonderful escape from awfulness of everything
• Carol - masterpiece. hope it survives the fires
• Grease: Live! -nobody will be doing the handjive in hell
• In the Heart of the Sea - we are all Chris Hemsworth, deluding ourselves
• Macbeth -that damn spot will never come out, lady!
• The Peanuts Movie - tfw you're Charlie Brown
• Sisters - the sinkhole is a metaphor
• Victor Frankenstein - again?
• Game of Thrones S5 - everyone dies
• Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt S1 - that bunker is looking smart right about now. »
- NATHANIEL R
The Furniture: The Exorcist's Possessed Bedroom
19 hours ago
Daniel Walber, new contributor, with the first episode of a weekly feature on production design. Every Monday morning we'll take a look at memorable sets and props, from classic Oscar nominees to the best new releases.
The Exorcist is a movie about a single room. Sure, it starts halfway across the world, on an archaeological dig in Northern Iraq. It’s true that Father Damien has a memorable, upsetting trip to a mental hospital in New York. And those iconic steps lurk just outside the house. Yet all of the violence, all of the vomit, all of Mercedes McCambridge’s legendary profanity issues forth from little Regan MacNeil’s tiny bedroom »
- Daniel Walber
Beam Shohreh up, Scotty!
21 hours ago
Manuel here. Here's one way to pique my interest about a film I was totally indifferent if not outright hostile to. Cast Shohreh Aghdashloo. In case you hadn't heard, the Oscar nominated actress has been added to the upcoming Star Trek sequel, Star Trek Beyond. If you're wondering, Wait, doesn't that come out later this summer (July 22) and shouldn't they have wrapped production already? you would be correct. The film is adding a character (the High Command of the Federation played by Aghdashloo) in a series of reshoots planned for this week.
This won't be Aghdashloo's first brush with threequel high-octane blockbusters: she played scientist Kavita Rao in the dreadful X-Men: The Last Stand. Can we hope that, pre-production scuffles and last-minute reshoots aside, Star Trek Beyond will at least be a more satisfying trilogy capper than that Bret Ratner misfire?
More importantly, will someone finally listen to us and assemble, »
- Manuel Betancourt
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