If you’re looking for reasons to hate on director Jose Padilha’s RoboCop remake, I’m sure you can find them. It has its requisite number of head-shaking action-movie contrivances, where the bad guy can easily exterminate the good guy if he wouldn’t stop blabbering, and just as he’s finally about to pull the trigger, a second good guy materializes out of the ether to plant a … [Read more...]
Theatre roundup 2: Challenging new ‘Hummingbird’ at Arts Garage; Wick rebounds with sparkling ‘42nd Street’
Playwright Carter Lewis uses a light touch to address heavy issues. In such past works as Women Who Steal, Ordinary Nation and The Cha-Cha of a Camel Spider — all produced by Florida Stage — he has gathered current social ills and shaped his observations about them into entertaining, and often challenging, theater. Certainly that is the case with his latest play, The … [Read more...]