MaryAnn wearing a red nose at BAM

I attended a performance of The Bridge Project’s production of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Friday night. And here I am outside the BAM Harvey theater wearing my Red Nose Day red nose. I’m doing something funny for money all week as part of the U.K.’s Red Nose Day … more…

Bolt (review)

I figured I was probably overthinking this, and should trust that it would all make sense, but I couldn’t help it. I knew that Bolt was about a dog who believes he has superpowers and actually fights crime alongside his beloved person, but he’s wrong because he’s just the canine star of a hit TV action show. I thought, How can a dog look at a green screen and see something that’s not there?

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (review)

You have to give them credit, whoever came up with idea of blowing regular ol’ movies up to IMAX size, because it has brought back to movie theaters the kind of spectacle we simply can’t reproduce at home, not even with plasma widescreens and blu-ray players. I saw *Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa* in IMAX: It. Is. Jaw-droppingly. Gorgeous.