Wicked

Freeze Frame: Russ’ Top 10 movies of 2024!

Happy New Year! Time to look back at my picks for the best movies of 2024. 10) HIT MAN (R) is a snappy tongue-in-cheek thriller. Glenn Powell stars as a fake hit man for the New Orleans Police. 9) THE REMARKABLE LIFE OF IBELIN (PG-13)is a touching documentary about a paraplegic who...

Freeze Frame: “Wicked” (PG), “Gladiator II” (R), “Bonhoeffer” (PG-13), “The Piano Lesson” (R)

Part one of the smash Broadway musical "Wicked," the origin story of Oz's Wicked Witch of the West, finally hits the big screen. Here's the upside: It's very entertaining and beautifully produced and Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande-Butera are terrific. The downside: It's padded out to 2 hours and forty minutes,...