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...Stage Door,” the timeless story of a boardinghouse full of young actresses trying to make it on Broadway. If modern heroines were witty enough, it’s easy to imagine the story transplanted to modern L.A. But no one could replace the whip-smart original cast, which features Katherine Hepburn, Ginger Rodgers and a young Lucille Ball. The wit comes fast and loaded, as do all movies based on plays by legendary Broadway writers George Kaufman and Edna Farber. It traces the influence of theatrical wannabe Terry Randall (Hepburn) on the struggling actresses. But the main...
...Unicorns were celebrated as much for their kitsch as their music on 2003’s “Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone?” Songs like “Jellybones” and “Sea Ghost” cast them as inventive, attractive indie popsters, no more and no less. Despite the album’s initial success, the band broke up shortly thereafter. Now, former Unicorns Nicholas Diamonds and Jaime T’ambour are recording as Islands, attempting with “Return to the Sea?...
...solid cast might keep “Kinky Boots” kicking, but too many lackluster lines force it to stumble and fall...
...Things only get worse with Opal’s supporting cast. It’s like Viswanathan has gotten herself permanently stuck in the second scene of a bad teen movie, the one where the camera pans the high school’s sunny front lawn, stopping at each clique long enough to let the skateboarders puff their pot, the jocks flex their muscles, and the cheerleaders bounce their boobs, and then moving on—except Viswanathan never leaves...
...procedural—“Law and Order: SVU”—and the action—“The Shield”—oriented ends of the spectrum. The result is that he knows what he is doing and has found a cast of charismatic professionals who play reliably to type; no one is stretching their capabilities and it mostly works. Johnson even has a cameo as the murdered agent that starts the ball rolling...