Opening Nights Hacienda Holiday Teatro ZinZanni, 222 Mercer St., 802-0015, zinzanni.com. $99 and up. Runs Thurs.–Sun. Ends Jan. 31. Festively asserting…
This Saturday’s book event for Lena Dunham’s Not That Kind of Girl (Random House, $28) is sold out, and maybe…
Friday, Oct. 17 Midnight AdrenalineFor a certain kind of filmgoer, one’s primal tastes were formed on balconies with sticky floors…
Stage Openings & Events The Atomic Bombshells Miss Indigo Blue emcees this burlesque troupe’s “Fall Fling!” Columbia City Theater, 4916…
Since creating the dystopian classic Brazil in 1985, Terry Gilliam has directed just eight more features—a disappointing total for such…
Many people are milling around the Greek tourist sights at the beginning of The Two Faces of January, but our…
The enemy of my enemy is my friend, runs the realpolitik adage, and that’s what motivated Mark Ashton—young, gay, and…
At the movies at least, the stock of righteous, muckraking journalists peaked with All the President’s Men. Newsmen (almost always…
Leave out Robert Downey, Jr., and The Judge looks like a painfully old-fashioned exercise in the Tradition of Quality. Big-city…
Down in the lower paragraphs of news stories about the Middle East, whenever this Hamas faction or that Hezbollah brigade…
We’re in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a walled city surrounded first by slums (whose denizens are shot on sight) and then…
The Best of Me Opens Fri., Oct. 17 at Sundance Cinemas and other theaters. Rated PG-13. 118 minutes. Even by…
The rise of digital streaming has proved a bonanza for fans of adventurous, wide-ranging entertainment. But for most of the…
This new sculptural installation by local artists Etta Lilienthal and Ben Zamora presents a tangle of old-school fluorescent bulbs—not those…
Mia Wasikowska’s face, body language, and vocal delivery are in perfect harmony with the countryside that surrounds her in Tracks:…
Tracks Opens Fri., Oct. 3 at Sundance. Rated PG-13. 102 minutes. Mia Wasikowska’s face, body language, and vocal delivery are…
This new advocacy doc is essentially the bastard child of Who Killed the Electric Car? and Fuel (also directed by…
The Great Man school of biography is alive—if not particularly well—in The Liberator. A quick glimpse of unloving parents, a…
How, short of total victory, do you end a war? The question has been haunting our military and political leaders…
Kelly is a onetime ’90s riot grrrl, now a domesticated new mom and prisoner of suburbia. Who better to play…
