The next film on our list is as different as different could be, both within its genre and this category. And it’s a space movie, which all avid Write Readers know I actively avoid. (Please see the Gravity post for further explanation.) Arrival, starring Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, and Forest Whitaker, is a science fiction…
Dear Write Readers, Another year has passed! Another year older, perhaps another year wiser, and another Oscar season is upon us! How time flies! Let’s start our journey in the Wild West. The wild, new West, we could call it. Opening on wide open spaces and vast emptiness, “Closed” signs and motionless trains, this Texas…
Keep on keeping on, Write Readers. We’re trucking through our list. Let us discuss the Amazon original film, Manchester by the Sea. Manchester by the Sea was written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan, and starring Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, and Lucas Hedges. The film was first premiered at Sundance, at which point it…
Ah yes, the City of Angels. In our next film, it has been confirmed that Hollywood is the most vapid place anyone has ever been, or will ever be again. I spent two hours in La La Land, and really couldn’t wait to get back. Here it is, folks, the darling of the Golden Globes…
Write Readers, let’s talk about a film that has gotten so much buzz you’d think it was guaranteed to win. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Hidden Figures. Hidden Figures is a film written by Theodore Melfi and Allison Schroeder, and based on the book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly. Directed by Melfi,…
“In the moonlight, black boys look blue.” Moonlight, directed by Barry Jenkins, is perhaps the most beautiful film I’ve seen all season. While I have doubts about it’s ability to beat La La Land, mostly because the Academy likes pretentious films, it’s the film most worthy of the title of Best Picture in 2017. I…
FEINSTEIN’S/54 BELOW, Broadway’s Supper Club, presents Billy Anderson in #imwithripsey on March 4th, 2017 @ 11:30pm. Once upon an election night, Billy Anderson, an ardent Hillary supporter, had a few too many, and his intoxicated alter ego Ripsey crashed the party! This lead to an infamous public meltdown on social media, recapped in #imwithripsey, a…
Dear Bookworms, This year I have decided to take up the Genre Challenge (see January’s article on Three Types of Reading Goals for 2017) and delve into some types of literature I don’t normally read. To begin, I decided to start with one glaring hole on my bookshelves: the graphic novel. Graphic novels have become…
Award-winning TOSOS, New York City’s oldest professional LGBTQ theater, returns with the second full length production of their 2016-17 season with Virginia Baeta’s Damaged Goods. The play is directed by Mark Finley (Penny Penniworth/Off-Broadway), and reunites the cast of the 2010 hit show, The Secretaries written by The Five Lesbian Brothers (FringeNYC/Fringe Encore Series). The…
DUETS with The Write Teacher(s) returns to Feinstein’s/ 54 Below for Volume 5 on April 22, 2017 at 9:30pm. Conceived and produced by Megan Minutillo (in association with thewriteteachers.com), the evening will feature music from across the musical theatre canon, pairing one Broadway hopeful with one Broadway professional who has inspired them in their show…