Hot-wiring the showstoppers
Captains enlist key teammates to make year's big scenes pop.
Captains enlist key teammates to make year's big scenes pop.
Years before tackling his first live-action feature, Zeitlin apprenticed under Ben Richardson (his future d.p.) on a stop-motion project in Prague.
There are no silver linings without dark clouds. Balancing the two proved writer-director Russell's consistent challenge in a story centered around a bipolar protagonist.
American plays about troubled families are a dime a dozen. But American plays which do more than merely flirt with politics are scarce, and those attempting to meld the personal and political, like…
Some filmmakers made hay on familiar turf while others sailed off to risky places
The kidded narrative is interspersed with yule-based sketches, offering Santa an easy accounting task: The stuff involving Ebenezer Scrooge (a crisp, droll Ron West), Tiny Tim (lovely Jean…
The Geffen welcomes Derek DelGaudio and Helder Guimaraes in an hour's worth of marvelous card trickery called "Nothing to Hide."
The late Gil Cates commissioned Donald Margulies' "Coney Island Christmas" as a Geffen Yuletide treat, and it turns out to be a present no one will want to take back.
"The Heat" could net Katie Dippold an awful lot of heat indeed when her spec, purchased by Peter Chernin for $600K, hits multiplexes next spring.
Playwrights' pics combine gravitas of legit dramas with bigscreen vitality.