One of the longest-running shows in West End and Broadway history, the stage musical Cats received its world premiere at the New London Theatre in 1981, where it played for 21 years and earned the Olivier and Evening Standard Awards for Best Musical. In 1983, the Broadway production became the recipient of seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and ran for an extraordinary 18 years. Since open...[Read More]
Hello again, dear readers, and I hope a lot of you enjoyed Thor: The Dark World over the weekend. In the meantime, this week’s Trailer Trashin’ column takes another look at my most anticipated movie of the rest of the year, Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. Premise: After successfully crossing over, and under, the Misty Mountains, Thorin (Richard Armitage) and ...[Read More]
This Friday, we at last get to see the next part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, as Thor: The Dark World finally hits theaters stateside. And fittingly, this week’s new installment of Trailer Trashin’ examines another upcoming Marvel Comics movie, next summer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past. Premise: The X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of their species across two diff...[Read More]