Blake Jenner, Tyler Hoechlin and Ryan Guzman in Everybody Wants Some!! Richard Linklater’s most personal films are inevitably about time, its passing and the desire to freeze it. Everybody Wants Some!!, his shaggy college baseball comedy that’s not about baseball at all, is another prime example of this. It begins at a Texas college on a Thursday in 1980, with the first day … [Read more...]
‘Clybourne Park’ playwright wants to get under your skin
Playwright Bruce Norris has no use for writing scripts that do not provoke audiences. Typical of his work, if there is such a thing, is Clybourne Park, which looks at race relations in this country and suggests that communities change faster than our racial attitudes. “Well, we’ve obviously made some very important political strides and obviously some very important things … [Read more...]