Movie review: Detachment
Our urban schools are screwed up; our teachers are under siege and burnt out; and the parents of the children who cause the most problems are the leas...
Our urban schools are screwed up; our teachers are under siege and burnt out; and the parents of the children who cause the most problems are the leas...
Tribeca Film | Posted 05.04.2012
Don't go to see it if you are looking for a movie about education, because it's not that. It's a movie you go to and then when you go home, you'll think about people in a different way, a deeper way -- maybe a better way.
People | Posted 02.18.2012
Marcia Gay Harden has decided to end her marriage. After 15 years of marriage, the Oscar winning actress has filed for divorce from her husband, T...
Posted 01.08.2012
Oscar winner Marcia Gay Harden is trying her hand at something new. The actress has landed the lead role in NBC's latest comedy pilot, "Isabel." Ha...
Rob Taub | Posted 01.20.2012
There's an old joke about the hierarchy of Hollywood movies that goes something like this: The starlet was so stupid she slept with the writer. Fortun...
John Farr | Posted 08.14.2011
This was the not the first title I had in mind for this piece. But when I dug into Clint Eastwood's life and career, it seemed particularly apt -- and not even close to an overstatement.
John Farr | Posted 07.27.2011
Finney cares a great deal about his work, but very little about publicity. Nominated five times for an Oscar, he has never once attended the ceremony.
Jason Mannino | Posted 06.14.2011
There is theater history to be witnessed on the stage of Ahmanson Theater, where God of Carnage opened on Wednesday night.
Liz Neumark | Posted 05.25.2011
After monthly food festivals featuring a seasonal harvest item, February -- the dead of winter month -- lends itself to our imagination... and for us, the crop is love.
Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.25.2011
The great pleasures of the fall film season, the venerable NYFF in its 48th year and HIFF, 18 and growing, leave me reeling (no pun), reflecting upon ...
Posted 05.25.2011
New York's theatre-goers can be equally kind and scathing to off-Broadway (and off-off-Broadway) shows. Among the more prestigious off-Broadway theat...
Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011
He plays a man with writer's block in his latest film, Paper Man, but Jeff Daniels has no problem getting the words to flow when he sits down to write...
Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011
Actress Janet McTeer relaxes her 6-foot-plus frame in her dressing-room chair backstage at the Bernard Jacobs Theater and coaxes the dregs of a home-m...
Brad Schreiber | Posted 05.25.2011
There is nothing inherently wrong with movie and TV stars being big draws on Broadway, watching them on seats in the mezzanine that are so narrow they make you feel morbidly obese.
Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011
Seeing celebrities, the Governor, Danny Glover, movie maker Al Maysles and his son Philip, and George Faison, acclaimed and beautiful actresses Marcia Gay Harden, Tamara Tunie, and Bette Midler , people who, despite their fame, live or work in Harlem, is no big thing.
Huffington Post | Katy Hall | Posted 05.25.2011
Fox Searchlight has just released the trailer for 'Whip It,' a girl power and indie-rock infused coming-of-age film starring Ellen Page and helmed by ...
Tallulah Morehead | Posted 05.25.2011
How nice to have the plot of Guys and Dolls explained to me. I don't think I've seen it more than a dozen times.
Wendy Diamond | Posted 11.17.2011
Just like an ideal candidate must fit the nations needs, the ideal White House dog must fit the Obama family's needs.
Marshall Fine | Posted 05.16.2012