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Coming off last year’s teetotaling ceremony, the Golden Globes continued its comeback Sunday night by popping a cork for the show and pouring out some old-fashioned primetime bubbly. With host Nikki Glaser providing the watered-down drinks and spicules, the aspirational tone for the 82nd annual…

One of the questions going into this year’s Golden Globes Awards was: Could first-time host Nikki Glaser match her career-making performance on last May’s Tom Brady Comedy Central roast? The short answer: Yes. Glaser, who said in various pre-show interviews that she’d been testing jokes and…

An elderly woman turns to a camera over her shoulder and, staring into the lens, says without self-pity, "I'm dying." Incarcerated men, unaccustomed to wearing suits and ties, anxiously adjust their attire in preparation for a daddy-daughter dance behind bars. A drag performance artist walks through…

Gavin and Stacey's big finale easily won the battle for UK TV viewers on Christmas Day, and now it seems it has won over the critics as well. Ruth Jones and James Corden's comedy, set in Essex, England and Barry, south Wales, went out with a bang on Christmas Day evening, with more than 12million…

Powerful performers punch above their weight in this otherwise by-the-book boxing drama. Based on the record-setting back-to-back Olympic victories — in 2012 and 2016 — of professional boxer Claressa "T-Rex" Shields, who came from a poor background in Flint…

Last week, the Broadway play All In: Comedy About Love got very dramatic about money – weekly box office, specifically, with grosses topping $1 million, an impressive feat for any play not named Mary. Figure in that All In isn’t really a play at all, but a collection of readings by the short comic fiction…

There aren’t enough dressing rooms on Broadway to contain all the expectations for the new Gypsy, George C. Wolfe’s revival starring the great Audra McDonald. Considered by theater buffs to be among the greatest stage musicals of the American canon, Gypsy now stars a performer considered among the…

Fans of the popular Sega video game and the first two movies will no doubt be in hedgehog heaven with the out-of-this-world third film, Sonic the Hedgehog 3. The audience always seems to want more, more, more and too often studios misread that as better…

The first thing you see on screen in Mufasa: The Lion King, Disney’s latest attempt to squeeze another billion or so out of its gift that keeps on giving on stage and screen, is a dedication to the late, great James Earl Jones, who of course provided the regal voice of Mufasa in both the classic 1994…

Quick, think of something really humorous about vaccinations. No? Me neither, but playwright Jonathan Spector has done us all a favor and molded one of the most divisive, inane, grotesque and newly, resurgent issues of the day and polished it into a shiny, insightful and damn funny little gem so that all…

If the line “What shall we hang, the holly or each other?” hadn’t already been taken by The Lion In Winter, it would make a fitting quip stuffed somewhere in Leslye Headland’s deliriously cutting Cult of Love, opening tonight on Broadway. Granted, this dysfunctional family holiday is already stuffed…

In an attempt to most obviously appeal to fans of Die Hard (and who isn't?), director Jaume Collet-Serra has come up with something designed for them, especially for those who like Christmas movies that will freak you out. Of course Die Hard was a…