When The Idol turned The Weeknd/Abel Tesfaye into a critical and Twitter punching bag, he could at least share blame and ire with fellow all too easy target/co-creator Sam Levinson. But as Hurry Up Tomorrow makes all too clear, this one is all about him - so there is no one that can take even a little heat off of him this time.

Musicians playing themselves or thinly veiled versions of themselves is nothing new, and even musicians playing themselves…

As someone who had never seen a Final Destination movie, Final Destination: Bloodlines was not on this reviewer’s radar – not until other reviewers gave it uncommonly high scores to go along with its high box office projections. Beforehand, basic knowledge was just limited to the general premise, awareness of its Rube Goldberg style death scenes, the log truck scene from the second film, Devon Sawa and Sean William Scott headlining the first one, and the recurring cameos from the…

In a time where musicals are either barely sold as musicals, seem ashamed to be musicals, flop at the box office, succeed despite being barely d as musicals or all/some of the above, one would think something like Emilia Perez would be a Godsend.

It isn’t based on a Broadway show, is the biggest completely original musical since La La Land or The Greatest Showman, is helmed by a celebrated auteur in Jacques Audiard, is d as a breakthrough in…

Every year at Oscar time, and nowadays even when its not Oscar time, we dig ourselves deeper in the quagmire like debate about representation, and who gets to tell what kinds of stories. Between Killers of the Flower Moon either uplifting or marginalizing the story of the Osage through white director Martin Scorsese’s lens, and a new musical version of The Color Purple through a black director’s lens this time, we’re going round and round the same old circles right…