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Focus Features has the right idea in releasing the new sequel, Book Club: The Next Chapter just in time for Mother’s Day. Reuniting four genuine movie icons – Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, Mary Steenburgen – whose first film in this senior franchise, 2017’s Book Club, was a surprise hit making…

There's a sense of an ending in part three of the Guardians trilogy, but not in the sense of the franchise actually, you know, coming to an end. Like almost all Marvel movies these days, it presents a continuum, giving all the main players an out while leaving the door wide open to a fourth iteration…

Editors note: This review originally published May 22, 2022 after the film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. It opens in theaters Friday. Longtime Cannes Film Festival favorite Cristian Mungiu has returned to the competition once again with a…

Editors note: This review was originally published May 18 after its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival where it co-won the Jury Prize. It opens in New York theaters Friday. After breaking out internationally in 2012 with his Oscar-nominated…

Editors note: This review original published January 20 after its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. It opens Friday. Written and directed by Nida Manzoor, Polite Society stars Priya Kansara (Bridgerton), Ritu Arya (Umbrella Academy) and…

The question you may be asking is ‘do we really need yet another take on Peter Pan? Ever since J.M. Barrie published his book “Peter And Wendy” in 1911 there have been countless film, TV, and stage versions of one stripe or another, starting with silents…

So often thought of primarily as the big lug who was so dramatically dispatched by Muhammad Ali in the famous “Rumble in the Jungle” in Zaire in 1974, George Foreman is the main event in Big George Foreman. While there is plenty of boxing here to satisfy…

Imagine a New York where construction workers tap dance on steel girders high above the city, sorta like that famous photograph you’ve seen a million times, and where kindly landladies who once played Carnegie Hall might tutor a young Holocaust refugee to a Julliard scholarship, and breezy jam sessions do…

Broadway can be a loud place, with belters belting and orchestras swelling and actors playing to rafters in the theater across the street, so it’s both comforting and mesmerizing to see a play as quietly poignant as David Auburn’s Summer, 1976. Starring Laura Linney and Jessica Hecht – both…

If ever a play had good reason to front-load itself with exposition, Good Night, Oscar is it. Once among America’s premiere wits and raconteurs, Oscar Levant has gone the way of many another once-famous wits and raconteurs. Which is to say, he needs lots of exposition. Good Night, Oscar, the new…

Killing Eve star Jodie Comer claims Broadway as her own in her tour de force performance of Prima Facie, a scalding indictment of the law and its limits opening tonight at the Golden Theatre. Comer plays Tessa, a young, working class Liverpool woman who has become one of London’s most promising…

Editors note: This review was originally published March 16 after its premiere at SXSW. It opens in theaters Friday. Deadites are everywhere in Lee Cronin's newest film Evil Dead Rise. Taking place in cosmopolitan Los Angeles, these wacky demons still…