Artistic
balance will draw audience
into 'The Last Exorcism'
It was just a
decade ago that "The Blair Witch Project" was
showing Hollywood the full potential of do-it-yourself
filmmaking - that a low-low-budget thriller could score huge
bucks by thinking big.
Expendables'
could be best
of summer blockbusters
More
than a few movie pundits, myself included, have questioned the
value of movie stars in modern Hollywood. Nowadays, it seems
to be the franchise and subject matter that matter a whole lot
more than the movie star attached.
Hollywood
shifts gears with
the 5 best films so far in 2010
Isn’t it
amazing how fast time flies?
Union
Theatre unveils fall
film season for the ages
Just as every May
in my life has become consumed with the anticipation over a
superhero blockbuster, so has every August become a
depressing desert of one-star wonders.
Thompson
becomes lead character
It's not every
day that a movie star decides to write her own movie.
'Scott
Pilgrim' centers on first love
Every
year, there’s a "Before Sunset" or "Nick and
Norah’s Infinite Playlist" - a sweet little genre
romance that is so well paced, well acted and convincingly
outlined that it’s hard to be wooed by its charms.
Michael
Cera starts to grow up
Most fans came to
know Michael Cera through the TV series "Arrested
Development."
‘Middle
Men’ operates outside elements
A seedy story of
unlikable but intriguing characters, "Middle Men"
is a dirty little pleasure that exists somewhere between the
mob gore of "Goodfellas" and the sex trade of
"Boogie Nights."
Efron
leaves 'High School Musical'
days behind
For
millions of fans, "Charlie St. Cloud" is better
known as the "New Zac Efron" movie, where he goes
beyond his boyish good looks and his "High School
Musical" antics to touch darker themes of death and loss.
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Raether
packages everything
nicely into 'Jeeves Intervenes'
Translating a short story into a
play, adding some characters of her own and maintaining the
flavor and verve of the original is exactly what Margaret
Raether accomplished in her exhilarating "Jeeves
Intervenes," the season opener at the Milwaukee Chamber
Theatre on N. Broadway.
Boulevard
stages winner in opener
We
have all experienced and been baffled by love in some of its
many manifestations. It is the subject of rumination in
countless lofty poems, sad songs and riveting novels. And
yet, it remains a mystery. What is it exactly? How and why
does it start or end for that matter?
Musical
revue gives 'Ring
of Fire' enough mileage
The
Fireside Dinner Theatre's celebration of the life and talent
of Johnny Cash in its production "Ring of Fire" is
not just one man re-creating Cash's style and temperament.
Popular
'Wicked' explores odyssey
Prequels are not
as common as sequels, but the intriguing and popular musical
"Wicked" is an example of one we're glad that
Steven Schwartz and Winnie Holzman created.
County
theaters offering
selection of musical shows
Waukesha
County is alive with the sound of music this month as four
theaters opened their summer musicals last weekend.
'Spelling
Bee' not what you’d expect
This
90-minute musical, called "The 25th Annual Putnam
County Spelling Bee" is not necessarily what one would
expect from the title.
Civic
Theatre's 'Life with Father'
goes back in time
WAUKESHA
- As the lights dim and the audience anticipates the opening
curtain, strains of music can be heard throughout the
Waukesha Civic Theatre. With a careful listen to the myriad
of songs, we are taken backward in time, from the present
decade to the 1890s.
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