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A New Medical Drama the Doctor Ordered
Actor Jamie Bamber on his new role as a surgeon on TNT’s Monday Mornings By Angela Barbuti Jamie Bamber still enjoys a cadre of loyal fans from his Battlestar Galactica days. “It’s an extraordinary...
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In Which They Serve
‘The Steadfast’ looks at those who gave all Photo by Tristan Fuge For all the talk of war – which conflicts in which the United States should be engaged, what rules apply to which groups of people who...
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How Do You Pronounce Quvenzhané?
Celebrated indie film ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’ confuses pandering with empathy In answer to the above question, “pickaninny” would be a viable option. Nine-year-old Quvenzhané Wallis, from the...
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Graceland: Martin Moran in ‘All the Rage’
Martin Moran continues searching for himself in his one-man show ‘All the Rage’ Photo by Joan Marcus Of all the many hard-hitting statements made by Martin Moran in All the Rage, the life-affirming...
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Frick or Frack?
VAN SANT AND DAMON’S PROMISED PROPAGANDA Gus Van Sant must really be out of imagination (or horniness) to make the drab, politically slanted Promised Land. That’s two phony films in a row for Gus,...
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Frack You!
‘FRACKNATION’ DEBATES THE GREENSHIRTS—AND WINS By Gregory Solman In Fracknation, Irish investigative journalist Phelim McAleer finds a combustible metaphor for the contrived controversy of hydraulic...
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At Cinema’s Crossroads
HELLO, WALTER HILL. GOOD RIDDANCE TO SODERBERGH This week, America’s most overrated filmmaker, Steven Soderbergh, gets booted out of the arena by the country’s most underrated great filmmaker, Walter...
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Number One With a Bullet
AN EXCLUSIVE CITYARTS CRITICS DISCUSSION OF WALTER HILL’S COMEBACK Bullet to the Head is an event. It is director Walter Hill’s first theatrical film since 2002’s Undisputed and the most meaningful...
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Now Take Them Out, Devils: My Bloody Valentine Released Their First Album in...
Last Saturday, while the Internet was busy minding its own business, the My Bloody Valentine Facebook page issued this short missive: “We are preparing to go live with the new album/website this...
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February Off-Broadway Roundup
As the temperatures continue to dip below freezing and Broadway holds off on its heavy-hitters for spring, Off-Broadway theaters continue to mount interesting work. I review a few of them below. Bodega...
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A Bachelor on Valentine’s Day
Sean Lowe, star of ABC’s ‘The Bachelor,’ weighs in on everything from the ideal date to mistakes women make in their search for the perfect mate. By Angela Barbuti Sean Lowe will be alone this...
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Now Take Them Out, Devils: Beck Wrangles Together Over 160 Musicians for...
Since the release of 2008′s astoundingly mediocre Modern Guilt, Beck has all but stepped away from conventional rockstardom. He’s spent the past few years on idiosyncratic projects like the Record...
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Downtown, Then and Now with Marc Spitz
A walking tour with a music journalist brings his memoir to life If “raucous” and “intimate” can coexist adroitly, that describes the atmosphere at the release party for Marc Spitz’s new memoir Poseur,...
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Now Take Them Out, Devils: The Marriage of Music & Narrative in the Video...
Recently, when I’m not performing diligent research, sifting through a hard drive’s worth of mp3s, resting my chin in my hands contemplatively and having deep deep thoughts about pop songs for you...
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Cold Case
Misery finds plenty of company in ‘The Silence’ The trouble with tragedy is that it is harder than one might think for it to elicit emotion from a third party. Sometimes, an audience remains at a...
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A Hairy Situation
Nick Jones’ Clever ‘Trevor’ Brings to Life an Actor’s Nightmare Photo by Hunter Canning I’m not sure who has it worse in Trevor, the latest Lesser America comedy to nestle into downtown’s Theater for...
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Doing Time in Manhattan
The New Museum’s 1993 show narrows the past The New Museum has put together a time capsule: a collection of dozens of works produced in New York in the year 1993. If you were a teenager in 1993, the...
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Rolling Their Own
Maazel, two composers and others acquit themselves In an early January column, I made some recommendations for the rest of the classical music season. I said that Lorin Maazel would be conducting Don...
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God is the Bigger Auteur
Cristian Mungiu goes for the bogus In God is the Bigger Elvis, about former movie actress Dolores Hart who gave up her Hollywood career opposite such glamorous stars as Elvis Presley, Montgomery Clift,...
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The Long Picture Show
‘The Flick’ could benefit from some editing In The Aliens, the last original play of Annie Baker’s to run in New York, the playwright employed what I refer to as the “gotcha moment.” At one point, a...
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