All posts by Randy Shulman
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Hero's Welcome
It's been quite some time, Superman, but now that you're once again among us, let me be among the first to say, welcome back. And...
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Masked Unmarvel
''Wrestling is ungodly,'' remarks Sister Encarnacion (Ana de la Reguera) to Friar Ignacio (Jack Black). ''It's a sin.'' ''Why?'' asks Nacho. ''Because these men fight...
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Pride 2006
View more Capital Pride Festival photos As the stormy weather dissipated at dusk on Friday, June 9, it left at least one rainbow over D.C....
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Bad Omen
When I was a moviegoing teenager, two movies scared the devil out of me: The Exorcist and The Omen -- the first for its unrelenting,...
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Bosom Buddies
''Oh, that's too perfect!'' Christine Baranski whooshes into the Kennedy Center's Africa Room, and immediately positions herself next to an elegant bare-breasted sculpture carved from...
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Christine Baranski
METRO WEEKLY: How did the performing bug bite you? CHRISTINE BARANSKI: It's hard to exactly pinpoint, but the fact is that my paternal grandparents were...
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Harriet Harris
METRO WEEKLY: Let's begin with what first got you interested in acting. HARRIET HARRIS: I'm from Texas. I grew up in Fort Worth, and there...
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Broken
Early in The Break-Up, Brooke Meyers (Jennifer Aniston) asks her boyfriend, Gary Grobowski (Vince Vaughn), to help with the dishes after a dinner party. Absorbed...
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Mutant Fortified
McKellen as 'Magneto' (3rd from left) and Janssen as 'Phoenix' (far right) X-Men: The Last Stand, the third installment in the ultra-popular movie series based...
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Adult Drown
Well, they've gone and done it. They've stripped the ''adventure'' out of The Poseidon Adventure, leaving, fittingly enough, just Poseidon. That's not to say Wolfgang...
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Mission Forgettable
Mission: Impossible III should end with a warning: ''This movie will self-destruct in 5 seconds.'' I'm not kidding. Five seconds after leaving the big kickoff...
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Lily Tomlin
Do Ernestine! The plea perches in the back of your head, chirping incessantly, while you talk to Lily Tomlin. Please, PLEASE do Ernestine. Or Edith...
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Bourne Different
''It's known wrongly as the all-male Swan Lake,'' says British choreographer Matthew Bourne of his inventive reinvention of a classical dance staple that, a decade...
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Hard Satire
Satire in the movies. On the one hand, it can be sharp, biting, memorably dark. On the other hand, it can be crass, base, instantly...
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Lucky Boy
One of Alfred Hitchcock's favorite recurring themes was that of the wrong man, an acute case of mistaken identity that often took the hero on...
