Hello everyone, and welcome to the week! It's time once again for our look back at the noteworthy updates of the last seven days. An odd group of games this week, to be sure. But I did what I could to find some interesting things for you to look over as you get your week started.
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A flight of imagination born of the trippy 1970s, “The Wiz” can shoulder a lot of interpretation. Sidney Lumet’s shadowy film, starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson, sets the Black spin on L. Frank Baum’s children’s story “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” in a blighted, nearly bombed-out New York City. High schools and community theaters […]
Experience may matter more than innate ability when it comes to sense of direction.
It sure seems like a lot of classic cartoon characters have found their way to Paramount+, from the Paw Patrol narcs to good old SpongeBob. The streamer also hosts the two most recent films about a certain famous blue hedgehog, so naturally his pal Knuckles’ spinoff series would premiere on the platform—on April 26, to be precise—as well. But save for the very expository first episode, Sonic himself doesn’t appear in Knuckles, as the alien boys’ movie dad James Marsden is conveniently “out of...
Luca Guadagnino's Challengers feels like a pitch to be the art house director for the next generation. Here's our review.
Parents in England can now access 15 hours of free weekly childcare for their two-year-olds.
A magical scientific exploration of volcanoes, and how they’ve shaped both nature and human destinyVolcanoes are the homes of gods, language tells us – across most of Europe, people who may never have laid eyes on one call them after the smoking forge of Vulcan, Roman god of fire and smithery. (In the tectonic hotspot of Iceland, where people live cheek-by-jowl with 130-odd volcanoes, they are simply “fire mountains”.) Even in our unenchanted modern age, they are capable of inspiring a kind of...
Even after a 3-2 shootout loss to the rival New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden on Saturday, the New York Islanders remain in control of their playoff fate in the Eastern Conference headed into the final week of the regular season.
Boy Kills World has a great concept and visual design that's hampered by bad direction. Here's our review.
Forget East Egg and West Egg. The creators of the new musical “The Great Gatsby,” which opened Thursday night on Broadway, have laid an egg. This song-and-dance version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s enduring 1925 novel about, among other things, American excess in the aftermath of World War I, is excessive all right. The gaudy barrage
The Broadway Theatre, New YorkF Scott Fitzgerald’s novel makes an underwhelming transfer to the stage in a bombastic yet misfiring new productionThe musical currently playing at the Broadway Theatre, twirling drunkenly in 1920s opulence, is The Great Gatsby.Though, perhaps, the latest revival of F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel should be renamed The Gimmicky Gatsby. An attempt to evoke awe through hyper-extended dance intervals and flaccid sets, this remount prioritizes a good time over any purposeful...