195 stories by "Kurt Gardner"
Iñárritu's dark western is a stunningly photographed but ultimately empty exercise in style.
In The Revenant, Leonardo DiCaprio goes for broke playing Hugh Glass,
Saturday, December 12th was quite a celebration at the Empire Theatre in San Antonio. The occasion was the release of The Nature of… which is
Since its original publication in 1843, Charles Dickens' novel A Christmas Carol has been adapted many times for film, stage and television, in both musical and
Magic is literally in the air at the Woodlawn this holiday season with its terrific production of the beloved Broadway musical.
The most well-known musical version
The centuries-old tradition of the traveling show is brought to life in a charming production at San Antonio's AtticRep.
Taking a break from its regular fare of well-staged narrative dramas …
Green Day's American Idiot at the Woodlawn Theatre, San Antonio.
When American Idiot opened on Broadway in 2010, it brought to the venerable St. James Theatre a radical new sty…
Leave it to Eli Roth, the king of torture porn, to lovingly resurrect another disgusting genre " the cannibal vomitorium atrocities from the '70s and '80s " with his new film The Gree…
Report and film reviews from the Alamo City Film Festival by our man in Texas, Kurt Gardner:
In keeping with its mission of showcasing films and filmmakers from around the world, the Alamo C…
Made in 2013, but amazingly not receiving U.S. distribution until this month, Tom at the Farm is the fourth film by Canadian wunderkind Xavier Dolan, who made his first film at age 20 (I Kil…
Almost 60 years ago, Broadway audiences were shocked by West Side Story, an audacious piece of musical theater that dared to take on the subject of race relations. With Jerome Robbins' fierc…
Festival report by Kurt Gardner.
Of the many films I saw at the San Antonio Film Festival, which took place July 28th through August 2nd, a standout for me was a feature entitled Mome…
Of the dozens of shorts screened at this year's San Antonio Film Festival, some really stood out in terms of execution, creative vision, and dramatic heft.
Here's another selection of compel…
A silver-tongued convict on the run from the cops meets a young man trying to escape his past, and together they form an unlikely alliance on the highways of Texas.
The year is 1980, and Jak…
A variety of entertaining and provocative short films are being screened at this year's San Antonio Film Festival from filmmakers all over the world. So far, I've had the opportunity to see …
One of the most highly anticipated films of the year, Antoine Fuqua's Southpaw arrives with Jake Gyllenhaal bulked up and ready to spar, but alas " Kurt Sutter's cliché-ridden screenplay ad…
Director David Zucker, actor Sean Young, and stuntman Corey Eubanks are all scheduled to attend the San Antonio Film Festival, which takes place July 28th through August 2nd at the Tobin Cen…
Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Quiara Algeria Hudes' Water By the Spoonful is the middle play in a Philadelphia-set trilogy that centers on Elliot Ortiz (Paul Ramos), a wounded…
The Deco District's flagship theater takes on a Broadway behemoth, and the result is practically perfect in every way.
In the early 2000s, when Disney started mining its film properties for …
Two different one-man shows at the Hollywood Fringe, covering two completely different topics, have something in common: excellence in performance and craftsmanship.
What Be G*d is Blessing
…
Our newest Exit Review is a guest report from critic Kurt Gardner. Kurt is reviewing Charivari in Voyeurville, which is now playing at the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2015.
INFO:
Charivari…
Our latest Exit Review is a guest report from critic Kurt Gardner. Kurt is reviewing The Load-In, which is now playing at the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2015.
INFO:
The Load-In.
Now playi…
No Traveler: A Comedy About Suicide
Playwright/performer Penny Pollak debuts her one-woman show at this year's Fringe, and it's an event that was well worth the wait.
A disturbed young woman…
Here follows the newest Exit Review for ArtsBeatLA " it's a guest report from critic Kurt Gardner of DOMA Theatre’s production of the musical American Idiot which is now playing at the…
NOTE: Different material and different performers are scheduled for each show. This review is for the Thursday, June 11th performance.
The famous but deceased kiddie show host, Uncle Impossi…
Pure action films are definitely a tricky business. If you hurl machines, bodies, and buildings at your audience for two hours without rhyme or reason, accompanied by a relentlessly crashing…
