Romney Isn’t Concerned
Mitt Romney has said that his comments about not caring about the very poor were taken out of context. But the more context you give them, the worse it gets.NEW YORK NEWS
Mitt Romney has said that his comments about not caring about the very poor were taken out of context. But the more context you give them, the worse it gets.Save the Humans! Actors and Whales Trapped in Big Miracle
Starring everyone who wasn’t in New Year’s Eve—and larded with just as many bromides—Big Miracle is inspired by the true story of the end-of-the-Cold War effort to free three gray whales trapped by ice in northern Alaska. While rooting for the marine mammals ...
Horror, Stripped Down to Its Bones, in Ti West's The Innkeepers
Ti West, the 34-year-old writer-director of The Innkeepers, has spent the past several years steadily toiling his way through the ranks of horror filmmaking. His little-seen apprenticeship cheapies (The Roost, Trigger Man) led to a disowned, freelance gross-out job (Cabin ...
Wit: Bearing Agonies
Margaret Edson's Wit (Friedman Theatre) is a handsomely structured, articulately written script; Cynthia Nixon is a fine, skillful, engaging actress. Both are well worth admiring in Manhattan Theatre Club's revival of Edson's 1995 work, directed by Lynne Meadow. Admiration, however, is whe...
Windfall
Extolling the virtues of wind power is where most ecological documentaries finish after subjecting us to the details of the land-raping extraction process du jour and asserting those whispering windmills as the remedy. Not so fast, Laura Israel's playfully thorough examination of the subject warn...