‘Dead Boy Detectives’ review: Neil Gaiman’s sleuths come to life

A girl with long platinum blonde hair smiles.

In the funny, terrifying, colorful, oddly lovely, lovably odd “Dead Boy Detectives,” premiering Thursday on Netflix, deceased putative teenagers Edwin (George Rexstrew) and Charles (Jayden Revri) investigate what’s troubling troubled ghosts. Created by Neil Gaiman […]

Review: ‘Patriots,’ starring Michael Stuhlbarg, is a new Broadway show on Vladimir Putin and ’90s Russia

Will Keen and Michael Stuhlbarg in 'Patriots'

Michael Stuhlbarg in ‘Patriots.’ Photo Credit: Matthew Murphy. “Patriots,” starring Michael Stuhlbarg, is a new play that premiered on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York. It was written by Peter Morgan, who […]

Review: Phish mounts a human-scale spectacle at Las Vegas Sphere

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LAS VEGAS —  The massive LED video screen that forms the interior surface of Sphere can be used to transport audiences to the tops of mountains, to outer space, to beneath the feet of an elephant […]

Paul McCartney, John Lennon sons James and Sean Ono release ‘Primrose Hill’: review

Paul McCartney, John Lennon sons James and Sean Ono release ‘Primrose Hill’: review

Here come the sons. Sixty-two years after The Beatles released their debut single in the UK, 1962’s “Love Me Do,” as the first of many classic songs written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, their […]

The week in audio: Courtney Love’s Women; Kicking Back With the Cardiffians; The Belgrano Diary; Word in Your Ear – review | Radio

Courtney Love’s Women

Courtney Love’s Women (6 Music) | BBC SoundsKicking Back With the Cardiffians | BBC SoundsThe Belgrano Diary | London Review of BooksWord in Your Ear | Acast Sometimes it feels like we will never reach […]

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ Challengers [Mixed]: Review

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross' Challengers [Mixed]: Review

Boys Noize has reworked Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ buzzing score for Luca Guadagnino’s new film Challengers into a 28 minute-long DJ set — and it’s astounding. Sequenced as one throbbing, hypnotic mix, the German-Iraqi […]

‘The People’s Joker’ review: An iconic villain, reimagined

A woman comic performs on stage with the words "Joker the Harlequin" in neon behind her.

The first lines that greet viewers of Vera Drew’s gonzo new film, “The People’s Joker,” are a necessary disclaimer meant to assure audiences (and whatever legal departments at various corporations may be watching) that this […]

‘Franklin’ review: Michael Douglas as a flirtatious founding father

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Michael Douglas, star of “Romancing the Stone,” “Fatal Attraction,” “The American President” and so much more, is not the actor one would think of as first in line to play portly, balding man on the […]

‘Mr. Bates vs the Post Office’ review: Toby Jones leads a resistance

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This Sunday the PBS British-import series “Masterpiece” brings to American audiences the four-part “Mr. Bates vs The Post Office,” which caused a sensation when it was broadcast in January in the U.K. The title suggests […]