For anyone who’s ever wondered why the legendary Peter Fonda hasn’t appeared in more movies of late, his performance in The Ballad of Lefty Jones provides a pretty conclusive answer: Over the years, his acting talents may have just dried up as much as the desert that serves as the setting for this deliberately old-fashioned western.
For those who believed that John Oliver’s recent treatment of Dustin Hoffman during their now-infamous Q+A would scare away others from booking the former for similar public conversations, I always maintained that any cancellations would be more than made up for by these sorts of sociopolitical-entertainment events:
For those who view the idea of making a movie as a daunting quest, the documentary Quest serves as yet another reminder that all one needs is camera equipment and life itself.
Anna Ziegler earned the privilege of two prominent off-Broadway theatre companies simultaneously staging a duo of her new plays this winter.
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Slipping in just under the calendar year wire, NO_ONE EVER REALLY DIES is one of 2017’s best albums.
Pressure stands as a testament to the fact that Jeezy still goes hard as fuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhh.
People, Places & Things will go down as one of this theatre season’s very best shows.
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Rebecca Miller is a consummate filmmaker, known as an independent darling for such films as The Ballad of Jack and Rose, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, and Maggie’s Plan.
Morgan Freeman is to geriatric group comedies as Liam Neeson is to offspring-rescuing action movies. Which is to say, they’re the goddamn masters of each.
Even though the Academy Award’s history of choosing abominable Best Picture winners dates back to this venerable institution’s inception, my first memory of living through a truly confounding upset belongs to Crash beating Brokeback Mountain. A few years later, when The King‘s Speech somehow took the prize from The Social Network, I vowed never to care about the Oscars again.
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