Metro Weekly

All posts by Randy Shulman

  • Real World

    The less said by the characters in The York Realist, a sixties-set drama about an ultimately unrequited love between two young men, the better for...

  • Battle Fatigue

    You've gotta hand it to Edward Zwick -- when creating an historical war epic, he's got the formula down pat: Make it bigger than life,...

  • Santa Claws

    Holiday movies are designed, by and large, to spread good cheer, to make us all warm and glowy inside, to make us feel charitable toward...

  • The Kiss of Activism

    On Wednesday, November 5th, Stephanie Haaser kissed a girl. The twelve-second kiss occurred between Haaser and classmate Katherine Pecore during lunch period at River Hill...

  • Parental Guidance

    Photography by Todd Franson ''I certainly didn't take this job for any notions about limelight or attention on me. As a person, I'm more of...

  • Amazing Adventure

    It's been ages since I witnessed an audience applaud a movie. But the Sunday matinee crowd gathered at Master and Commander: The Far Side of...

  • Song of the Quilt

    Photographs by Todd Franson The Lesbian and Gay Chorus of Washington and D.C.'s Different Drummers on their first full rehearsal, Tuesday, November 18th, 2003. ''When...

  • Roman Holiday

    It is the best of Sondheim, it is the worst of Sondheim. It is the first Sondheim, it is the quite possibly the last Sondheim....

  • Laugh-A-Minute

    ''I do a lot of stuff about being a gay mom and my relationship and my kids, '' says comedian Judy Gold. ''But, of course,...

  • Bear Necessity

    I'll admit, with the recent triumphant rise of such CGI animated wonders as Finding Nemo, and the recent hard tumbles of more traditional animated fare...

  • Revolutionary

    Matrix fans, you can exhale now. And rejoice. The Wachowski Brothers have done their trilogy proud, bringing it to a satisfying action-crammed, effects-laden conclusion that...

  • Classic Cut Ups

    David Zucker's involvement in Scary Movie 3 should be seen as a blessing and a curse. The man who, along with brothers Jerry and Jim...

  • The Nature of Nicholas

    Reel Affirmations 2003 Review by Randy Shulman Rating: (1 out of 5) Saturday, 10/25/2003, 12:00 PM Feature presentation, $9 at Lincoln Theatre IF MOVIES WERE doldrums, The Nature...

  • Latter Days

    Reel Affirmations 2003 Review by Randy Shulman Rating: (5 out of 5) Saturday, 10/25/2003, 8:00 PM Feature presentation, $15 at Lincoln Theatre C.J. COX'S SMART, sexy

  • Secondary High

    Reel Affirmations 2003 Review by Randy Shulman Rating: (1 out of 5) Friday, 10/24/2003, 11:59 PM Feature presentation, $9 at Visions Cinema THIS CANADIAN MISHAP purports to be...