Andrew Barker

If ever there was an organization perfectly suited to piggyback on the current vogue for live public table-reads of screenplays, it would be the Black List, whose annual compilations of...

Though based on a smash-hit jukebox tuner that won four Tonys, Clint Eastwood's adaptation of "Jersey Boys" can't properly be described as a full-on musical. It does often hint at...

In the lead-up to the 2014 World Cup, Brazilian artist Vik Muniz created a pair of massive art installations using 20,000 carefully arranged soccer balls -- an impressive accomplishment, but...

Founded three years ago, the Champs-Elysees Film Festival takes place in Paris in the middle of June, a period that would seem a less than ideal time to try and...

Though it's correctly categorized as a teen romance, "The Fault in Our Stars" is above all a movie about cancer. Cancer provides the butt of the film's most caustic jokes,...

There's a scene midway through the Adam Sandler-Drew Barrymore vehicle "Blended" that sees the two stars, playing single parents thrust together on a South African resort, accidentally meet up for...

There are a good 20 minutes of genuine comic inspiration in Jerome Sable's "Stage Fright," a horror musical that essentially imagines what a "Glee" summer-camp episode would look like if...

The NAACP continues to deal with fallout from the racist comments attributed to Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, whom the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP had planned to...

What would "It's a Wonderful Life" look like if Clarence the angel were replaced by the human personification of George Bailey's sentient penis? It's a question very few people have...

When theater director Jon Vickers hopped on the phone with Variety, his single-screen cinema was in the middle of a typically diverse run. The night before, it had screened a...