Metro Weekly

All posts by Randy Shulman

  • Broadway Bound

    ''A choreographer is always unhappy,'' says Maurice Hines. ''We're always unhappy with our choreography.'' But during a recent dress rehearsal for Hot Feet, the lavish...

  • Crime Solvers

    As detective Keith Frazier (Denzel Washington) trudges home after a long day, he quietly enters his bedroom, and from the right side of the room...

  • Rabble Rousing

    V for Vendetta is a rich and strange little nugget of a movie. Based on a 25-year-old comic book by the famously eccentric Alan Moore,...

  • It's Showtime!

    ''We're presenting four different styles, four different composers, four different eras,'' says Jeff Buhrman, artistic director for the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, D.C. ''It's...

  • Naked Launch

    How you respond to Failure to Launch depends on a number of factors: Your mood at the time of theater entry. Your general disposition toward...

  • Urban Blockage

    Almost every major movie star has an archetype they can comfortably fall back on when needed. This not only serves to appease their most ardent...

  • Webb of Truth

    ''It just so happens that my two most recent credits both happened to be gay men,'' says Jeremy Webb of his TV work. ''[Law &...

  • Oscar, Oscar, Oscar!

    This Sunday we will know. We will know if Brokeback Mountain, a traditional unrequited love story cut from traditional Hollywood cloth but featuring a non-traditional...

  • Boiling Over

    Has anyone else noticed that Julianne Moore keeps playing women whose kids go missing? In The Forgotten, her boy was grabbed by aliens. In Freedomland,...

  • Velvet Touch

    It's turning out to be a banner year for Will Gartshore. Last week, the actor nabbed two Helen Hayes Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor...

  • Unpretty in Pink

    February has never been a good month for movies, but this year the pickings seem awfully, well... awful. Last weekend's three major studio releases included...

  • Cracked

    Summer of 2003 changed everything for Lucas Zarwell. The forensic scientist was satisfying his creative side, assembling a one-time variety show with Cherry Red's avant-garde...

  • The Weinstein Touch

    Advertisement Transamerica The Weinstein Company is off to a solid start. Founded by brothers Harvey and Bob, who were recently ousted from their posts-on-high at...

  • London Calling

    To a natural-born cynic like myself, the pre-release hype for Woody Allen's latest -- Match Point -- was almost too much to bear. Virtually every...

  • Comic Abroad

    In Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World, comedian Albert Brooks is approached by the U.S. government to find out what makes Muslims laugh. He...