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EASY A – with Emma Stone, directed by Will Gluck – Movie Review
OMIGOD! Â ANOTHER CLASSIC TOTALLY UPDATED! The Easy A might well be for a class in astronomy. This is supposed to be the movie in which the redhead “It” Girl Emma Stone (Superbad, Zombieland) is born as a star. If dying stars turn into black holes, sucking everything around them into eternal darkness, then movie stardom…
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Theater Reviews: ELEKTRA (Getty Villa) / TITUS REDUX (Kirk Douglas Theater) / WAITING FOR GODOT (Stella Adler Theater)
WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO OUR CLASSICS? You can fragmentize a familiar Shakespeare play like Macbeth, if you have a clear concept of what you want to do with it and then give it a witty and inventive production, as was proven recently when Psittacus Productions presented A Tale Told By An Idiot, but if…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: JOAN RIVERS LIVE AT TIMES SQUARE (Laurie Beechman Theater)
SEPTUAGENARIAN COMEDIENNE, ADOLESCENT JOKES Joan Rivers’ energy is more entertaining than her material. Never one for crisp, understated delivery, she gushes out her monologues, stepping on every punch line with “Oh my God :,” “Oh, oh, oh:,” half-laughs, and gagging sounds (“Can we talk, here” seems to have gone the way of the dodo). While…
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THE VIRGINITY HIT – produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, directed by Huck Botko and Andrew Gurland – Movie Review
MORE REASONS TO LAMENT THE INTERNET The Internet was born out of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Military planners were confronted with the question of how to maintain command and control during a nuclear war. A decentralized method of electronic communication was proposed, leading to a communications system that could transport information long distances almost instantaneously….
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Where are the older reviews?
Stage and Cinema has recently undergone a structural change, and reviews published prior to August 2010 have not been migrated to the new system. In the meantime, those older reviews are still available at http://old.stageandcinema.com. To search for a particular title, hit Control-F (PC) or Command-F (Mac), type in title and hit “enter” or “return”…
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MAD RON’S PREVUES FROM HELL – reissue of 1987 VHS tape – DVD Review
YAWNS, GIGGLES, AND SHRIEKS It takes so long to see the first preview in the DVD reissue of the 1987 VHS curiosity Mad Ron’s Prevues From Hell that one begins to wonder if it will ever make good on its promise of showing them. Â For the first ten minutes we are, ahem, “treated” to ventriloquist…
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RITES OF PRIVACY – NYC Fringe – Theater Review
WHAT THIS PLAY IS ABOUT IS A SECRET With the ever-present possibility of public surveillance and the increasing integration of social network sites, it would seem that our rights to privacy are disappearing. Â Keeping a secret can be a challenge in web 2.0 world. Â In Rites of Privacy, however, writer and performer David Rhodes asks…
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THE AMERICAN – with George Clooney, directed by Anton Corbijn – Movie Review
CLOONEY CONTINUES TO GET IT RIGHT It’s time to submit a definition of the George Clooney hero. He’s an aging professional who has grown smarter than the system to which he has indentured himself. The distance between his intelligence and the system’s need for myopy breeds cynicism and alienation. Finding himself the villain of his…
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GOING THE DISTANCE – Drew Barrymore, Justin Long, Christina Applegate, Other people who are just happy to be in a movie – Movie Review
IT’S A ROMANTIC COMEDY.  ANY QUESTIONS? Director: Didn’t this thing just direct itself? One of the great things about useless romantic comedies is how easily they break down into question and answer form. Observe the Drew Barrymore-Justin Long long-distance get-together Going the Distance. Q: Is it funny? A: Eh, not bad. The leads dish out…
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THE SECRETARIES by The Five Lesbian Brothers – NYC Fringe Theater Review
OFFICE WORKERS GONE WRONG When I say that The Secretaries is a period piece, I’m not just describing the campy comedy’s early 90s fashion or repeated Slim’¢Fast references.    In the mill town of Big Bone, Oregon, it seems that Cooney Lumber can’t go more than 29 days without a bloody mishap.  Chronicling the initiation of…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: NEIGHBORS (Matrix)
THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins wants you to think about what you think about race in America. His agitprop play, Neighbors, is intentionally provocative, knowingly provocative, and (wisely so) humorously provocative. His intention is to stir up the debate regarding race in America (specifically black versus white). His setting is a suburban neighborhood where…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: STREEP TEASE (bang Comedy Theatre)
STREEPED DOWN TO NOTHING A friend called me and said that comedian Roy Cruz, who reenacted Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly (The Devil Wears Prada) in his stand-up act, decided to collect an impressive array of actors to perform an evening of monologues from Meryl movies. You have to see Taylor Negron do Sophie’s Choice,…
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DVD Reviews prior to August 2010
DVD Reviews 2010 How I Got Lost (Caroline Hagood) North Face (Colin George) Word Is Out (Harvey Perr) 2009 The Universe of Keith Haring (Pamela Lewis) 2008 Bad Meat (Chad Menville) Big Ideas for a Small Planet (Chad Menville) Black Christmas (John Topping) The Cool School (Chad Menville) Confessions of a Superhero (John Topping) Death…
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A WITHER’S TALE – Troubadour Theater Company – The Falcon Theatre – Los Angeles (Burbank) Theater Review
NOW IS THE WITHERS OF OUR DISCONTENT For 15 years, the Troubadour Theater Company (AKA, The Troubies) have amalgamated freely altered classics with music of a particular artist – creating riotous sketch/improv/entertainments that are liberally seasoned with an air of Commedia dell’Arte; this gives the immensely talented players the opportunity to act, sing, dance, improvise,…
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PARASITE DRAG by Mark Roberts (West Coast Premiere) – Los Angeles Theater Review
A MIXED DRAG If Parasite Drag were a product of Playwriting 101, its author, Mark Roberts, would be the brightest kid in the class. He has an ear for dialogue, a sure way of shaping a scene, and beautifully subtle insights into women, a rare enough gift these days, especially in a male playwright. Â And…
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MILKMILKLEMONADE by Joshua Conkel (West Coast Premiere) – Los Angeles Theater Review
PULL THE CHAIN AND FUDGE IS MADE! MilkMilkLemonade is the sweetest – and most incendiary – gay love story this reviewer has ever seen. It is the story of a couple of children – Emory, who wants to be a girl, and Elliot, a bully who torments Emory but who, of course, really likes him…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: BEDROOM FARCE (Odyssey Theatre Ensemble)
WHEN A MARRIAGE GOES WRONG Let’s not pull any punches. The Los Angeles critical community is under attack. And this reviewer is leading the charge against them. Just as they admired en masse the woefully inadequate revival of Alan Ayckbourn’s How The Other Half Loves in Long Beach a few months ago, they have lavished…
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Film Review: THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (Plaza Classic Film Festival in El Paso)
A TOWN CALLED ARNENE (Film Critic Kevin Bowen is visiting his hometown – El Paso, Texas – and attending the third annual Plaza Classic Film Festival. The festival, running from Aug. 5 to Aug. 15 features 70 classic films. Bowen will write sporadic reports on the classic films that he watches at the festival.) —…
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DEAR HARVEY – NYC Fringe Theater Festival Review
HARVEY MILK 101 Dear Harvey is an educational theatre campaign, spearheaded by playwright Patricia Loughrey and composer Thomas Hodges. Â Loughrey has compiled and arranged primary source materials about Harvey Milk and the lives he changed, and she wants everyone to learn more about his personality and mission. Comprised entirely of interviews with people who knew…
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FLIPPED – directed by Rob Reiner – Movie Review
EXPECT THE EXPECTED Is this all that I have to look forward to? Three or four decades of looking back to the good old days? While I remain at an age when I can effectively deny the presence of gray hairs, I’m still displeased with this future. When I’m 60, will I look back or…
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