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Home » Sam Mendes

Tag: Sam Mendes

Posted inArts & Culture

Desperate debauchery haunts this Cabaret

by Dmitry Samarov October 9, 2019August 18, 2021

Encroaching fascism and gender fluidity make for a timely revival with Cowardly Scarecrow.

Posted inBlogs

Reader’s Agenda Thu 2/13: Off the Wall Cabaret, Cinema Slapdown, and Karen Russell

by Jillian Sandler February 13, 2014August 18, 2021

What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Thursday, February 13

Posted inFilm

The bi who loved me

by J.R. Jones November 14, 2012August 19, 2021

James Bond in Skyfall: man’s man, ladies’ man, or a little of both?

Bond holds the not-yet-fallen sky hostage
Posted inFilm

007 hits the big 5-0

by J.R. Jones November 6, 2012August 19, 2021

In Skyfall, James Bond ponders the future and the past

Posted inBlogs

“Road” to be ruined?

by J.R. Jones March 30, 2007August 19, 2021

Can Sam Mendes ruin Richard Yates’s Revolutionary Road?

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