Mark Wahlberg Stars in “The Family Plan”: A Comedy Thriller The new action-packed comedy thriller “The Family Plan” starring Mark Wahlberg has a familiar premise – a seemingly ordinary family man with a clandestine identity hiding a violent past. This storyline has been seen before in movies like “True Lies” and “A History of Violence,”…
The Perelman Arts Center, a glamorous, gleaming marble cube, is currently hosting dance productions “The March” and “Is It Thursday Yet?” Although it is impressive that the Perelman would devote its new building to dance for a few weeks, unfortunately, the productions themselves don’t rise to the opportunity. “The March” is a three-part dance production,…
The Höss Family’s Life at Auschwitz: A Haunting Tale The story of the real Höss family, who lived in the Auschwitz complex during World War II, is a chilling and haunting one. The complex, spanning 15 square miles, housed different camps, including Auschwitz I where the family resided. This camp was notorious for its prisoner…
When Stephen Le Duc posted on a Reddit forum proposing a meet-up at a music festival, he never expected to meet his future wife. The mechanical engineer was headed solo to the Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas in 2019, an annual dance music festival, when he met Olivia Le Duc, who had responded to…
The Jean-Luc Godard film “Alphaville” opened the 1965 New York Film Festival and was described as the “first successful incursion of pop art into the cinema.” The film, shot in black and white on high-speed film, takes place in the then-new Paris Business district La Défense and features a melodramatic score by Paul Misraki. The…
Stephen Sondheim once expressed the idealistic notion of going into theater when he was twenty, but he later realized that he was going into show Business and that it was foolish to think otherwise. As a titan of musical theater, his decades’ worth of credits as a composer and lyricist included “West Side Story,” “Company,”…
Nia Wilkerson: The Viral ‘Polar Express’ TikTok Star Nia Wilkerson, a college senior at St. John’s University, has gained immense popularity on TikTok for her portrayal of Hero Girl, a character from the 2004 film “The Polar Express.” This Christmas season, she has been spotted at popular spots in New York City, such as Rockefeller…
