The Marvels hits theaters this Friday (November 10), but critics have already had a first look at the latest entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe!
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Dicks: The Musical (★★★☆☆) is exactly the silly, sex-obsessed, do-anything-for-a-laugh (including having Nathan Lane regurgitate ham into the mouths of puppets), song-happy spoof implied by the title. And that’s why it works.“Bravely written by two homosexuals,” according to the opening credits, the film stars those very same creators, Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson, as identical twins Craig (Sharp) and Trevor (Jackson), separated at birth.
Now happy, thriving, super-hetero corporate salesmen, each is introduced to us by God (Bowen Yang, of course), who narrates and occasionally joins the action.Craig and Trevor don’t look a damn thing alike, but they do happen to work in the same office, at Vroomba Parts International, where one day they put two and two together and start plotting to Parent Trap their long-estranged mom and dad into reuniting.By this point, the film, based on Sharp and Jackson’s two-man Off-Broadway musical Fucking Identical Twins, is three songs deep into its jam-packed score of offbeat, proudly profane tunes, featuring new originals co-written with Karl Saint Lucy.Pitched to ape the showtune formulas of Broadway and Disney musicals, the songs hit the targets more often than not, although there’s no real showstopper, and the vocals, often live-sung on set, lack oomph in the mix.Still, the lyrics and the script deal out jokes nonstop, making up in volume what they lack in precision — though some of the gags are razor-sharp. As with Team America: World Police, or any Airplane!-style comedy, viewers should be ready to laugh at some downright stupid humor.Sight gags abound — a movie marquee hails “X24 presents Everyone, Everywhere All Cums at Once” — as do the one-liners about dick, pussy, and various
.The Marvels hits theaters this Friday (November 10), but critics have already had a first look at the latest entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe!
Mean Girls” is back, ready to teach to introduce a new generation of people to the madness of Girl World. The film, based on the Broadway musical of the same name, has just released a new trailer, showing a first look of the cast and some of the iconic scenes that have been reinterpreted for a new audience. Jennifer Garner and Rita Moreno star in a new Netflix Holiday filmWho is Pablo Larraín, the director hanging out with Angelina Jolie?“Mean Girls” stars Angourie Rice as Cady Heron, Renee Rapp as Regina George, Auli’i Cravalho as Janis, Jaquel Spivey as Damian, Bebe Wood as Gretchen, and Anantika as Karen.
“Now and Then” — a brand new song by the Fab Four that was was released Thursday — well, the waterworks are about to begin again.The Peter Jackson-directed video, which dropped from the heavens Friday morning, is a flood of feels along a nostalgic, time-traveling trip that, true to the tune’s title, captures The Beatles “Now” and “Then.”When you first see present-day Paul McCartney and the eternally cool Ringo Starr — rocking a Ringo Starr T-shirt because, well, he can — all of a sudden surrounded by their late bandmates George Harrison and John Lennon in all their youthful glory, you’ll be reaching for a box of tissues.And trust us — one Kleenex will hardly be enough when you also see Harrison and Lennon sharing a mike in matching raincoats, Harrison in 1995 (when he laid down his guitar parts for “Now and Then”) trading licks with his “Sgt.
EXCLUSIVE: Matthew Wilder has been set to write and direct an untitled film that chronicles the life and work of author Joan Didion.
The first-ever stage adaptation of Steven Antin’s crowd-pleasing musical sensation, Burlesque, which starred Christina Aguilera, Cher, Kristen Bell and Stanley Tucci - will have its World Premiere at the Manchester Opera House next summer.
“The Young and the Restless” viewers are in for a wild week of Genoa City drama. During the week of October 30- November 3, plots and sinister secrets will be revealed. “The Young and the Restless” Ashley Abbott‘s (Eileen Davidson) return sparks a lot of interest from the residents of Genoa City.
Friends star Matthew Perry who was found dead "after drowning in his jacuzzi at home", tragically posted his last picture of himself on Instagram with his father just two weeks ago. In the snap, the actor, 54, who wore tracksuit bottoms and a polo shirt, smiled with John, 82, as they held cups of fizzy drinks.
Broadway box office held steady last week with total grosses for 28 shows tallying up to $28,106,860, with 224,832 ticket buyers paying an average $125.01 per seat.
Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic In America, doing what Andy Lau does in Hong Kong film industry satire “The Movie Emperor” would likely net him an Oscar nomination. Or at least an MTV Movie Award.
Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic In 2016, John le Carré published a memoir called “The Pigeon Tunnel,” which the late spy novelist — who died in late 2020 — claims had been the working title of nearly all his books at some point. For le Carré, the term describes the passage through which naive birds of sport were forced from their nests, only to emerge as targets for marksmen waiting with rifles poised at a hotel in Monte Carlo.
With more than 1,500 performances during its initial 2016-2020 Broadway run, and a subsequent three-month post-Covid-shutdown remount, Waitress: The Musical baked its way into the hearts of theatergoers, and in December folks who didn’t make it to New York City will get a chance to see what the fuss was about: Bleecker Street and Fathom Events have set nationwide special-event screenings for five nights only beginning December 7.
Based on Adrienne Shelly‘s 2008 film “Waitress” with Keri Russell, “Waitress: The Musical” is one of Broadway’s longest-running musicals in recent history. It ran for more than 1500 performances at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, and returned for a limited engagement at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre after Broadway reopened after the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021. READ MORE: Fall Film Preview: 60+ Most Anticipated Movies To Watch Now, the hit show based on a movie gets the movie treatment itself, with “Waitress: The Musical” hitting theaters this December.
Dozens of buses serving communities across Greater Manchester have been hit by delays after a horror lunchtime crash opposite the bus station at Piccadilly Gardens.
In a sweat shop in remote north west Pakistan, a mobile phone films as rows of men toil away making dresses on ageing sewing machines. The camera cuts to a package clearly bearing an Oldham address.
Mark Sutherland Four songs into Madonna’s long-awaited Celebration Tour and a technical hitch gives her a chance to chat for a little longer than was probably planned. She tells the crowd of her early days being “hungry, broke and scared” in New York, with a lack of support from her father, who wanted her to come back home. “But I was not about to go back,” she declares.
“Book of Mormon” duo now star in “Gutenberg! The Musical!,” a hyperactive two-hander that opened Thursday night at the James Earl Jones Theatre, and their old-school chops and boisterous chemistry are why the cute off-Broadway gem has improbably wound up, as Gad’s Bud accurately puts it, “on the weird side of 7th Avenue.”“Gutenberg!” is on the weird side, all right.The appealingly nerdy show by Scott Brown and Anthony King has two equally wild identities. Call it “Mr. Hyde and Mr.
Frank Rizzo As backers’ auditions go, “Gutenberg! The Musical!” — a wildly delusional conceit so full of itself that it boasts two exclamation points — doesn’t stand a chance of making it to Broadway. That is, unless it can convince an audience of potential producers that it is witnessing the greatest creation since, well, the printing press.
When Gutenberg! The Musical! debuted Off Broadway 17 years ago, critics wondered whether it was ready for Broadway. Perhaps they should have asked whether Broadway was ready for Gutenberg!
the notoriously long “The Irishman.” Runtime, of course, was the at-home audience’s No. 1 beef with the Netflix gangster flick.
EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate has closed a U.S. deal for The Home, the James DeMonaco-directed thriller that stars Pete Davidson. The film was made be Miramax, and it screened for buyers outside competition at the 2023 Toronto Film Festival in the Industry Selects category that the festival started to highlight commercial films.