newcritics

Hello, yeah, it’s been a while…
Since I’ve been distracted by politics over at my place, and because I didn’t want to inflict a simple review of Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay on you (now, a comprehensive analysis of the Stoner Comedy, maybe… but I haven’t had the time), I’ve been a little out […]

It’s usually a risk to see a Broadway show late into its run. For one thing, it’s tired; the performers have been doing 8 shows a week, over and over, and there’s bound to be a certain… lack of freshness. The buzz around even the most amazing show is bound to have slipped as […]

Given that I started this gig off of Joan’s 100th (or, more likely 103rd), I suppose one ought to consider Bette.
Edward Albee tells this wonderful story - and while it’s been everywhere, it’s somehow more meaningful that he told it to me, and only me, over dinner in a fast food restaurant on North Avenue […]

Frankly, my cultural and style icons are largely women and gay men, and I just don’t have a lot to say about Charlton Heston; I think Heston was the right guy in the right place to take advantage of a need for larger than life presence onscreen… but largely he wasn’t especially brilliant, nor was […]

Pardon me, I’m new around here.
When Tom asked me if I would join in the cultural critical fray around here (based on this, mostly), I was… well, astonished; someone actually asking me to do the thing I’ve longed to do, for, like, ever. I grew up - literally - writing movie reviews (as […]