A cockfight is a contest between two gamecocks, often conducted in a circular arena called a cockpit. That partially explains the wry title and unusual staging of Mike Bartlett’s edgy play, “Cock,” but of course, there’s more to it. Reviews News Headlines – Yahoo! News
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – As a defender of the 1985 comedy “Clue,” I can’t automatically reject the idea of basing a feature film on a board game. But the game Clue comes with characters and a plot and a house. Battleship comes with a grid and boats and pegs. All those things turn up in [...]
Max Payne hasn’t graced video gamers’ screens for nearly nine years, and when we reacquaint ourselves with the former New York City detective, we find a man drowning his troubled past in bottles of scotch and prescription pills. Reviews News Headlines – Yahoo! News
A Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Malcolm X and a best-seller about Catherine the Great are among the finalists for a new literary prize. Reviews News Headlines – Yahoo! News
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Well, the upcoming movie adaptation of “Fifty Shades of Grey” has its theme song, if it wants one. “Chokehold,” a provocative track from Adam Lambert’s second album, sounds tailor-made for the S&M occasion: “Sheets are in a knot… I kinda like the pain… I keep running away from you, but I [...]
“Polisse” feels like the two-hour pilot for the kind of meaty cop drama that could only exist on cable television, one you’d want to program into your DVR to watch all season long. Reviews News Headlines – Yahoo! News
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Some thoughts on Lisa Marie Presley: “Too bad she ain’t just like her daddy/Oh what a shame/She got no talent of her own/It’s just her name.” No, that’s not our review. That’s Presley anticipating (or reviving) some of the conventional/cynical wisdom about her musical career in “Sticks and Stones,” a bonus [...]
“The Taste of Tomorrow: Dispatches From the Future of Food” (Harper), by Josh Schonwald: What will we be eating in 2035? That’s the question reporter Josh Schonwald sets out to answer in “The Taste of Tomorrow.” Reviews News Headlines – Yahoo! News
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Everyone remembers the most galvanizing moment of this year’s Grammys – when the telecast cut to commercial and, over a Chipotle ad, we heard a studio recording of Willie Nelson singing Coldplay’s “The Scientist.” You can relive that very special Grammy moment (minus the environmentally themed animation and Chipotle logo) at [...]
Adam Lambert “Trespassing” (RCA/19) Reviews News Headlines – Yahoo! News
