Broadway Archive
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‘Match’: Who’s your daddy?
Posted on January 13, 2015 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com Stephen Belber’s “Match” is a slight but affecting film built around a stirring central performance by Patrick Stewart. He plays Tobias, a one-time principal male dancer who traveled the […] -
‘Into the Woods’: We all die. The end.
Posted on December 26, 2014 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com Stephen Sondheim’s “Into the Woods” arrives on the big screen 27 years after it opened on Broadway – and with the same second-act problems that have plagued it through […] -
The week in film: ‘Third Person,’ ‘Jersey Boys’ and more
Posted on June 18, 2014 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com Paul Haggis’ “Third Person” may be the year’s most misunderstood film. It’s also one of the most intriguing. A jigsaw puzzle of characters and plots, it might remind some […] -
‘August: Osage County,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine
Posted on December 22, 2013 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com “Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” Tolstoy observed and he could have been talking about the Weston clan of “August: Osage County,” when he wrote that […] -
‘Premium Rush,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine
Posted on August 23, 2012 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com There are the seeds of a funny and exciting film buried within “Premium Rush.” Instead, director David Koepp has made one long chase movie, with few comic moments and […] -
‘Rock of Ages,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine
Posted on June 14, 2012 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com “Rock of Ages” is technically a jukebox musical: a stage presentation of comedy, drama and song in which, instead of using original songs, the writers build a story out […] -
‘Carnage,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine
Posted on December 14, 2011 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com Roman Polanski takes the experience of watching Yasmina Reza’s play, “God of Carnage,” and amplifies the tension, turns anger into absurdity and captures an entire universe in, essentially, two […]