Marc Glassman

  Is all fair in Love and War? One Night Only & The Samurai and the Prisoner By Marc Glassman   One Night Only Will Gluck, director  Travis Braun, script w/(uncredited) Will Gluck Starring: Monica Barbaro (Allie), Callum Turner (Owen), Maya Hawke (Malika), Julia Fox (Skye), Molly Ringwald (Linda), LeVar Burton (Rick), Nicholas Braun (Woodrow), […]

From Hell to Outer Space Hadestown: The Musical & The Outer Threat By Marc Glassman   Hadestown: The Musical Brett Sullivan, film director Anais Mitchell, writer & composer Rachel Chavkin, original theatre director Starring: Reeve Carney (Orpheus), Andre De Shields (Hermes), Amber Gray (Persephone), Eva Noblezada (Eurydice), Patrick Page (Hades) & The Fates: Bella Brown […]

Telling Tales  The Odyssey & Steal Away By Marc Glassman   The Odyssey Christopher Nolan, director and writer based on the poetic epic attributed to Homer Starring: Matt Damon (Odysseus), Tom Holland (Telemachus), Anne Hathaway (Penelope), Robert Pattinson (Antinous), Lupita Nyong’o (Helen of Trory/Clytemnestra), Samantha Morton (Circe), Zendaya (Athena), Charlize Theron (Calypso), Benny Safdie (Agamemnon), […]

What’s So Funny? Comedies with different styles Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass & The Racewalkers By Marc Glassman   Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass David Wain, director & co-script w/Ken Marino Starring: Zoey Deutch (Gail Daughtry), Jon Hamm (himself), John Slattery (himself), Sabrina Impacciatore (Ludovica), Ben Wang (Caleb), Miles Gutierrez-Riley (Otto), […]

  Truth Telling, with Music or Not Close-Up & Merrily We Roll Along By Marc Glassman   Cover-Up  Laura Poitras & Mark Obenhaus, directors Feature length documentary portrait of Seymour Hersh   It’s wonderfully appropriate that the documentary world’s most decorated whistle blower Laura Poitras (Citizenfour, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Risk) has made […]

  For part 1, click here. For Part 2, click here.   And the Oscar Goes to… Academy Award Picks 2025 By Marc Glassman   Though it’s not been the blockbuster year that Hollywood moguls and the mainstream media would have wanted, it’s fair to say that “movies are back,” though not “better than before.” […]

  For Part 2, click here.   Prelude to the Academy Awards Picking winners at the 97th Oscars By Marc Glassman Every year, my selections for the Academy Award winners at the station have become a slightly comic ritual, where I vacillate between picking the films I love and the ones that are more likely […]