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(10/24/11 6:00am)
Hamlet 2"" explores the life of failed-actor-turned-teacher Dana
Marschz (Steve Coogan) and his quest to save his high school drama
program by writing a sequel to the Shakespearean play. When every
other elective is cut from their struggling school system, the
troublesome kids are sent to Coogan's drama class, which is next on
the chopping block. Coogan struggles to get through to the students
and must single-handedly save his department.
(04/23/10 6:00am)
Poverty, disease, war, oppression and sexual assault are just
some of the incredibly complex issues in ""The Awakening: The
Hip-Hopera,"" a new hip-hop musical featuring music by Rihanna.
(04/19/10 6:00am)
Kate Nash's playfulness on her debut album, Made of
Bricks, won her a BRIT award in 2008. Her lighthearted malice
and overall quirkiness—not quite Lily Allen's smug vindictiveness,
not quite the innocently traumatized personas of Regina Spektor—can
be captivating. This coyness, matched with a drastically dynamic
array of songs, is what makes My Best Friend is You
memorable.
(02/21/10 6:00am)
Director Martin Scorsese attracts audiences with a creepily
promising premise in his long-awaited new release, ""Shutter
Island."" The attraction to solving the film's mystery lasts well
into its second half, but the resolution is annoyingly
groan-producing and contrived.
(02/12/10 6:00am)
As children, we were handed all of our romantic relationship
expectations from various, seemingly innocent movies. With
Valentine's Day coming up, it's time to compare what we know now to
what we learned then. This in-depth analysis will take you on a
roller coaster of truth. Be warned: It turns out that the couples
we learned from were completely and utterly dysfunctional. Here we
present six influentially bizarre movie relationships from our
childhoods.
(01/28/10 6:00am)
Emotional turmoil and chaos reign in Madison Opera's production
of Benjamin Britten's ""The Turn of the Screw,"" playing in the
Playhouse at the Overture Center this weekend.
(11/23/09 6:00am)
Clever, realistic and well developed, ""An Education""
investigates how to acquire diverse types of knowledge, and
examines how much one person can sacrifice in pursuit of it.In 1961
London, 16-year-old Jenny (Carey Mulligan), is a brilliant yet
bored student preparing to apply to Oxford. A beautiful girl with
lofty standards, she has high school suitors who could never hope
to measure up to her abilities (one helplessly bumbles over a
simple French phrase she coyly mentions). Enter David (Peter
Sarsgaard), a cultured but uneducated man twice her age, who offers
her a ride home one day. A relationship blossoms between them as
David opens up a new world to Jenny, taking her to chamber
concerts, jazz clubs and art galleries.
(11/08/09 6:00am)
Although it shows promise in certain nuances and is thoroughly
well designed, Anne Fontaine's ""Coco Before Chanel"" offers a
somewhat narratively contrived tale of Gabrielle ""Coco"" Chanel's
life before becoming France's legendary fashion designer.
(10/27/09 6:00am)
Nineteen amendments to Madison's 2010 Executive Operating Budget
were discussed at the Board of Estimates meeting Monday night.
(09/30/09 6:00am)
Recommendations for reducing racial inequalities in Dane
County's criminal justice system were revealed by the Dane County
Task Force on Racial Disparities in a report released on its
findings Wednesday.
(09/17/09 6:00am)
In an attempt to generate discussion on health-care reform, the
Wisconsin Union Directorate's Society and Politics Committee kicked
off the year Wednesday with a town hall-style Q&A session led
by a panel of Madison-area experts.
(09/10/09 6:00am)
Humankind has been destroyed by the very technology intended to
maintain peace, but nine burlap sack dolls (coined ""stitchpunks"")
survive the destruction in Shane Acker's post-apocalyptic CGI
animated film, ""9."" Together, the stitchpunks must avoid the
clutches of the soulless machines that annihilated human
civilization.
(03/31/09 6:00am)
Astringently funny yet relatable, Keith Gessen's ""All the Sad
Young Literary Men"" follows three highly educated college
graduates in their individual quests for careers, women and wisdom
at the turn of the 21st century. Keith is a Harvard graduate who
has taken up a writing career in New York City, Sam is a Bostonian
who is certain he will one day be the author of ""the great Zionist
epic,"" and Mark is a graduate student living in Syracuse while
writing his dissertation on the Mensheviks. Each grapple with
relationships and desired legacies.
(02/10/09 6:00am)
Laden with melodrama and stereotypes, He's Just Not That Into
You"" attempts to piece together several clichéd situations while
trying to prove the point that women sympathetically, or perhaps
narcissistically, overanalyze their relationships, in the recent
movie adaptation of the best-selling book. A husband cheats on his
wife, a girl doesn't receive a call from her date, a woman is
called the wrong name at an inopportune moment ... all initially
receive the same prescription, revealed by the movie's
title.
(12/04/08 6:00am)
The opening scene of Synecdoche"" may appear normal - viewers
are introduced to Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman), the
hypochondriac play director, Adele Lask (Catherine Keener), the
disinterested wife and Olive (Sadie Goldstein), the inquisitive
four-year-old daughter - but ""Synecdoche, New York"" is anything
but ordinary.
(11/20/08 6:00am)
Neither fantasy nor fable, Undergraduate Theater Association's
production of Kenneth Lonergan's This is Our Youth"" opens
Thursday, examining a generation searching for meaning amidst
chaos.
(11/12/08 6:00am)
Happy-Go-Lucky"" is a lighthearted comedy that explores the life
of Pauline ""Poppy"" Cross (Sally Hawkins) and her perpetual cheery
attitude toward life in modern day North London. Hawkins, a primary
schoolteacher, lives with her sarcastic but loving best friend Zoe
(Alexis Zegerman) and faces situations such as flamenco lessons, a
fight with her pregnant sister and a love affair with a social
worker with infinite happiness.
(10/31/08 6:00am)
(10/27/08 6:00am)
Picking up from where Saw IV"" left off, ""Saw V"" continues the
exploration of serial killer Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) and his recently
revealed sidekick Detective Mark Hoffman (Costas Mandylor) while
adding the new chaos of two separate plotlines to the mix. Special
Agent Strahm (Scott Patterson, ""Gilmore Girls"") discovers that
Hoffman was an accomplice in a great deal of the Jigsaw murders and
unintentionally involves himself in a ""game"" of his own.
Meanwhile, Jigsaw and Hoffman subject five people, led by Brit
(Julie Benz, ""Dexter""), to a series of terrible tests.
(10/14/08 6:00am)
In John Erick Dowdle's new movie, Quarantine"" - a horror film
and remake of Jaume Balaguero and Paco Plaza's ""[REC]"" - reporter
Angela Vidal (Jennifer Carpenter of ""Dexter"") and cameraman Scott
Percival (Steve Harris) shadow the Los Angeles Fire Department for
the longest night of their lives.