movie review MEGALOPOLIS Running time: 138 minutes. Rated R (sexual content, nudity, drug use, language and some violence). In theaters Sept. 27. There are two battles being fought in Francis Ford Coppola’s confounding “Megalopolis.” One feud is between a forward-thinking architect named Cesar (Adam Driver), who wants to rebuild the fictional American city of New … Read more
Like Indiana Jones finding the Holy Grail, Steven Spielberg has finally seen the light. This week, the filmmaker said onstage at the Time100 Summit that he regrets editing the guns out of “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” and digitally swapping them with walkie-talkies for the 20th anniversary re-release in 2002. “That was a mistake,” a repentant Spielberg … Read more
What the ’ella? For a musical with the drunken confidence to slap the word “Bad” in front of a classic title, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Bad Cinderella,” which opened Thursday night on Broadway, doesn’t have much in the way of ‘tude and swagger onstage. Or brain cells. Theater review 2 and a half hours with one intermission. … Read more