Eve Tushnet
Richard Shepard’s Dom Hemingway, starring Jude Law as an aging felon and Richard E. Grant (yes) as his best friend, is a bizarre genre hybrid of gangster entertainment and family tearjerker. At first we seem to be solidly in lads’-night-out…
The new Muppet movie, Muppets Most Wanted, is basically 1981’s Great Muppet Caper if you make Kermit self-pitying, Piggy helpless, and Russia the villain. Also, there are several gulag dance scenes. The Great Muppet Caper is my own favorite Muppet…
In early January, I attend my very first professional sports competition. The U.S. National Figure Skating Championships have already been going on for four days; the event sprawls over four disciplines and five age categories. I’m at Boston’s TD Garden…
What everybody forgets about the Smiths is how much fun they were. And not just fun: The band careened through the ’80s putting out four studio albums which were joyful, sexy, funny, self-deprecating, silly, and even sometimes compulsively danceable. The…
Hirokazu Koreeda’s new film, Like Father, Like Son, pretends that it will be up front about the source of its heartbreak. Koreeda is the tragedian behind 2004’s Nobody Knows, based on the real-life horror of several small children abandoned in…
The Shakespeare Theatre’s production of Noel Coward’s 1932 Design for Living (in D.C. through June 28) has many virtues. The play follows a young woman and two men who find, after much denial and jealousy, that they are all in…
If you judged by the headlines and the ballot boxes, you’d think the only interesting thing about marriage is whether Ellen DeGeneres can marry Portia de Rossi. But the central issue in the gay marriage controversy — how we should…
WASHINGTON — In 2002, over a third of all births in the United States were to unwed mothers. About 40 percent of recent first marriages end in divorce and the prospects for second marriages are even dimmer. In several American…
