Attention, Diablo Cody haters: Get your knives out! The stripper turned blogger turned Oscar winner is back this month with the Showtime series United States of Tara. The show doesn’t premiere until Jan. 18 at 10 p.m. (following the derisible Secret Diary of a Call Girl), but you can Read More
Model-cum-actress Gemma Ward’s debut feature film, director Elissa Down’s The Black Balloon, will debut at the 58th Berlin International Film Festival in February. Ms. Ward, 20, costars in the film about autism, which was selected as part of the festival’s “Generation 14 Plus” youth competition, with fellow Aussies Toni Collette (who has a role in Read More
George Clooney’s Good Night, and Good Luck, from a screenplay by Mr. Clooney and Grant Heslov, comes to us as an austere, almost minimalist labor of love and political projection from Mr. Clooney, who clearly intends us to see parallels between the exorcised demons of McCarthyism over 50 years ago and our ordeal at the Read More
In Her Shoes is pure joy. That’s not a word tossed around as freely as you think. In today’s movie market, there’s so little of it on view, and even if you get a glimpse, it’s fleeting. But this marvelous, up-with-the-lark movie stays sunny all day, with wit and intelligence to spare. After a fallow Read More
George C. Wolfe’s wonderful, messy and dangerous new musical The Wild Party has opened at the Virginia Theater on Broadway, and I don’t think I’ve ever loved a show more while seeing–and forgiving–its flaws. For one thing, it’s as if the show is making a lunatic kamikaze attack on the age of Disney. Which is Read More
