*WARNING: This Review contains SPOILERS!* Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, auteur Quentin Tarantino’s latest effort, represents a bit of a departure for the veteran filmmaker: It is his first for Sony Pictures Studio after severing his long ties to the Weinstein Company; it is his first not set in the old west (sort of), during […]
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Bobby Slayton brings nasty to Just For Laughs
interview with Ron Roxtar for Curtains Up Ron : Bobby, welcome back to Montreal’s Just For Laughs. What can people expect this year? Bobby : You know everyone who interviews me asks me the same stupid question and I don’t expect anything different from you. What can people expect? It’s the Nasty show! It’s the […]
Let’s Just Say it Wasn’t Pretty by Diane Keaton (Random House, $31)
By Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up! “I’m a performer who chose my profession because I wanted to be loved by large groups of people. This sort of choice-actually, more an impulse than a choice-has led me here, right where I am today.” -Diane Keaton (from Let’s Just Say it Wasn’t Pretty) Few people in the […]
Song of Spider-Man by Glen Berger (Simon & Schuster, $28.99)
by Andreas Kessaris for Curtians Up! “…this whole book is a story about storytelling – the story of an epic attempt by earnest human beings to tell a story and tell it brilliantly.” -Glen Berger Anyone who knows me well is aware that live theater is not my favorite form of entertainment. And that […]
Curtains Up on Blue Jasmine
by Joseph Rossi Blue Jasmine is Woody Allen’s latest film and as always he shows no sign of letting his talent squander in VOD hell. He’s made some bad choices in recent years but he keeps on going, like a nebbish and neurotic Energizer Bunny. This outing, starring Cate Blanchett, is up there along […]

