Sometimes we'll read a review of a show being produced elsewhere and, for a moment, wish we lived there rather than here. It doesn't happen often, but it does happen (and only for a moment). Luckily, New York being the theater capital that it is we manage to get many of those productions. Eventually. And sometimes we just get them through other means (that's your cue, PBS). For instance, if you're as curious about the National Theater's production of Frankenstein as we are—its directed by Trainspotting's Danny Boyle and starring the awesomely-named Benedict Cumberbatch (Holmes) and Jonny Lee Miller (the first Mr. Angelina Jolie, probably still most famous as Sick Boy in Trainspotting) as both the Doctor and his creation—you'll probably be interested to know that while the show is still playing to sold-out houses in London it hits our shores later this month for two nights. The second performance allowing American audiences a chance to see the actors perform both roles. more ›

The following post is from our advertiser, Slumdog Millionaire. From Director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, 28 Days Later) comes Slumdog Millionaire, the film that Rolling Stone’s Peter Travers calls “one of the year’s best” and Richard Corliss from Time Magazine calls “a buoyant hymn to life, and a movie to celebrate.” A penniless, eighteen year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, Jamal Malik is one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's ‘‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” But when the show breaks for the night, suddenly, he is arrested on suspicion of cheating. After all, how could an uneducated street kid possibly know so much? Determined to get to the bottom of Jamal’s story, the jaded Police Inspector spends the night probing Jamal’s incredible past, from his riveting tales of the slums where he and his brother Salim survived by their wits to his hair-raising encounters with local gangs to his heartbreak over Latika, the unforgettable girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of Jamal’s increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show’s seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out… Visit the OFFICIAL SITE for info about FREE screenings in your area. more ›

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There might not be anything better than beating the heat with a little zombie action. To make up for their spectacularly misguided adaptation of The Beach, Danny Boyle and Beach writer Alex Garland give a bleak vision of London in 28 Days Later, where mankind is being ravaged by a virus, Ebola with a twist, as the infected turn into zombies that sprint after the uninfected. Meditations on humanity interspersed with vomiting blood and red eyes. more ›