Another Look: ‘Groundhog Day’ at 30
By Lynn VenhausMaybe it was the wake-up call - the clock radio hitting 6 a.m. and Sonny and Cher's "I Got You Babe" blaring bedside...
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‘Six’ Offers Snappy Take on the Not-So-Merry Wives of Tudor
By CB Adams “The past is never dead,” observed the novelist William Faulkner. “It's not even past.” That sentiment was certainly on extravagant view at...
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‘MISSING’ is an Immersive Thriller That Misses The Mark
By Alex McPherson Inventively constructed yet saddled with an unwieldy plot, Nicholas D. Johnson and Will Merrick’s screenlife thriller “Missing” undercuts its strengths by appealing...
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Winter Opera Brews Up a Bewitching ‘Macbeth’
By CB Adams In his recent review in New York magazine of the Metropolitan Opera’s production of “Fedora,” Justin Davidson snarked, “’Fedora is an opera...
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‘M3GAN’ Is A Ridiculous Gem of Sci-Fi Horror
By Alex McPherson Silly, messy, yet filled with provocative ideas and starring an already classic antagonist, director Gerard Johnstone’s “M3GAN” is one of 2023’s first...
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Tom Hanks Is Classic Grump in Sentimental ‘A Man Called Otto’
By Lynn Venhaus A heart-tugging story about love, loss, life, and friendship, “A Man Called Otto” has much to say about seeing the world differently...
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‘Babylon’ Is a Full-Tilt Skewering of Hollywood
By Alex McPherson Vulgar, shocking, but irresistible, Damien Chazelle’s “Babylon” is a toxic love letter to cinema that’s impossible to look away from, even in...
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Sunny Jennifer Theby-Quinn Is Looking for Love in ‘The 12 Dates of Christmas’
By Lynn Venhaus The promising new direction of the Westport Playhouse as a live entertainment venue bodes well for the future, and the one-woman holiday...
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Brendan Fraser Captivates in Harrowing, Fascinating Drama
By Alex McPherson An exhausting film filled with compelling performances, director Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale” exerts a vice-like grip throughout, reveling in both discomfort and...
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Grief, Regrets and Salvation Collide in Aronofsky’s Bleak, Stagey ‘The Whale’
By Lynn VenhausBrendan Fraser is heartbreaking and haunting as a morbidly obese recluse with mental and physical health problems in the difficult-to-watch “The Whale." He's...
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