Metro Weekly

All posts by Randy Shulman

  • High Anxiety

    In Flightplan, Jodie Foster -- her face taut with anxiety, her aqua eyes clear, alert, fueled by purpose -- plays a mother whose six-year-old daughter...

  • DeBoldly Going

    Susan Hester calls Kathleen DeBold ''Mautner's Miracle.'' ''She thinks about the Mautner Project in every waking hour,'' marvels Hester, the lesbian health organization's founding executive...

  • Disenchantment

    In the latest edition of Entertainment Weekly, Terry Gilliam bellyaches about the poor quality of today's movies, in the process singling out Steven Spielberg and...

  • Pee Town

    Let's get this out of the way right up front: Urinetown is not what you think it is. Despite whatever tawdry, profane images your mind...

  • Wondrous Woman

    Nobody spins better, or with more superheroic grace, than Lynda Carter. Indeed, for her latest role in Sky High, Carter -- forever revered as the...

  • Haunted Mansion

    Children shouldn't play with dead things: Hudson In The Skeleton Key, Kate Hudson plays hospice worker Caroline Ellis, a spunky, care-filled young woman whose curiosity...

  • Superteen Spirit

    ''The kids who get bitten by a radioactive spider or fall into a vat of toxic waste, their powers usually show up the next day,''...

  • Dynamic Duo

    It was the kiss that rocked the Tonys. And pissed off Fred Ebb. ''I thought they made spectacle of themselves, frankly,'' the late Broadway legend...

  • Bob Mould: Independent Spirit

    When Bob Mould moved to Washington three years ago in June of 2002, he was at a crossroads in his life. Recently fully out, the...

  • Foul Ball

    First the good news: Michael Ritchie's wonderful, utterly un-PC 1976 little league romp, Bad News Bears, is available on DVD. Now the bad: Richard Linklater's...

  • Note for Note

    A word of advice to those planning to attend a concert conducted by Emil de Cou: Remain in your seats. No autopilot standing ovations, please....

  • Candy Corn

    No everlasting gobstopper here: Depp confers with Roy I've heard from friends and readers that I was far too hard on Batman Begins. Perhaps, but...

  • Fantastic Flop

    The Fantastic Four ain't. Bet you saw that train coming a mile away. But this train wreck of a superhero movie is very much a...

  • Martian Law

    ''Take care of our kids,'' Mary Ann Ferrier says, somewhat warily, to ex-husband Ray as she drops them off before heading up to Boston for...

  • Skin Show

    Let's get this out of the way. For those of you who attend gay films to see an abundance of sex and nudity and are...