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Robby Müller: Living The Light director Claire Pijman will do a Q&a with Andrea Müller-Schirmer following the 2:30pm screening at Metrograph on Sunday, October 1 Photo: Claire Pijman

Claire Pijman’s resourceful and enlightening documentary, Robby Müller: Living The Light (with a score by Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan’s Sqùrl), is a big part of the series, Robby Müller: Remain in Light, at Metrograph that celebrates the legendary cinematographer, who died in 2018. Films by Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch, Sara Driver’s When Pigs Fly, Andrzej Wajda’s Korczak, Alex Cox’s Repo Man, Peter Bogdanovich’s Saint Jack, William Friedkin’s To Live And Die In LA, and Michael Winterbottom’s 24 Hour Party People will all be shown.

Claire Pijman with Anne-Katrin Titze on Robby Müller and Wim Wenders’ Buena Vista Social Club: “That’s how I got to know him, and since then we stayed...

Magnolia Pictures announced today that they have acquired North American rights to Boom For Real The Late Teenage Years Of Jean-michel Basquiat, director Sara Driver’s (When Pigs Fly, Sleepwalk) love letter to New York City’s past through the eyes of people who knew the renowned artist.

The film, which world-premiered at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival to critical acclaim, will next screen at the 55Th New York Film Festival, presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center.

Magnolia plans a 2018 theatrical release.

Boom For Real The Late Teenage Years Of Jean-michel Basquiat follows Basquiat’s life pre-fame and how New York City, the times, the people and the movements surrounding him formed the artist he became. Using never before seen works, writings and photographs, Driver worked closely and collaboratively with her friends and other artists who emerged from that scene: Nan Goldin, Jim Jarmusch, James Nares,...

Howard Crabtree's When Pigs Fly, conceived by Howard Crabtreeand Mark Waldrop, book and lyrics by Mark Waldrop, music by Dick Gallagher, directed by Mark Waldrop, choreographed by Tony Award-nominee Denis Jones Holiday Inn and costumes by legendary nine-time Emmy Award-winner Bob Mackie 'The Carol Burnett Show', will fly again Off-Broadway at Stage 42 422 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036 with previews beginning October 6 and opening night set for Monday, October 30.

According to the show's official announcement,Bob Mackie will be returning to New York to design the costumes for the upcoming revival of the campy musical review, Howard Crabtree's When Pigs Fly. The show features book and lyrics by Mark Waldrop and music by Dick Gallagher.

When pigs fly? More like when gators climb! An estimated eight-foot long alligator was caught on video climbing over a chain-link fence in Fort Myers, Florida, reported Wfla. In the video, the large reptile easily scales the fence, which was located at the Hideaway Country Club, a golf course. Residents told Wfla they're concerned about the crafty gator being near to their homes - and their pets. Said one dog owner, "I'm afraid if the alligator is out, he can come running after it because he is a small dog." The video comes just weeks after 2-year-old Lane Graves was...

Transport Grouppresents Once Upon a Mattress, starringJackie HoffmanOn the Town, Difficult People, Hairspray as Princess Winnifred and John 'Lypsinka'Epperson Lypsinka's The Boxed Set, The Passion of the Crawford as Queen Aggravain. The production, which is directed by five-time Drama Desk Award nomineeJack CummingsIII, featuresJessica FontanaCinderella as Lady Larken,David Greenspan The Patsy as The King,Hunter Ryan HerdlickaA Little Night Music as The Minstrel,Cory LingnerOn the Town as The Jester,Zak ResnickPiece of My Heart as Sir Harry,Jay RogersHoward Crabtree's When Pigs Fly as The Wizard, andJason SweetTooth WilliamsThings to Ruin as Prince Dauntless, with Vivienne Cleary,Richard Costa, Michael De Souza,Tim Dolan,Jack Donahue,Amy Griffin,Sarah Killough,Kristen Michelle, Ali Reed,andDoug Shapiro.

Transport Group will soon present Once Upon a Mattress, starring Jackie Hoffman On the Town, Difficult People, Hairspray as Princess Winnifred and John 'Lypsinka'Epperson Lypsinka's The Boxed Set, The Passion of the Crawford as Queen Aggravain. The production, which is directed by five-time Drama Desk Award nominee Jack Cummings III, features Jessica Fontana Cinderella as Lady Larken, David Greenspan The Patsy as The King,Hunter Ryan Herdlicka A Little Night Music as The Minstrel, Cory Lingner On the Town as The Jester, Zak Resnick Piece of My Heart as Sir Harry, Jay Rogers Howard Crabtree's When Pigs Fly as The Wizard, and Jason SweetTooth Williams Things to Ruin as Prince Dauntless, with Vivienne Cleary, Richard Costa, Michael De Souza,Tim Dolan, Jack Donahue,Amy Griffin, Sarah Killough, Kristen Michelle, Ali Reed,and Doug Shapiro.BroadwayWorld is taking you inside rehearsals for a special sneak peek below...

Transport Group will soon present Once Upon a Mattress, starring Jackie Hoffman On the Town, Difficult People, Hairspray as Princess Winnifred and John 'Lypsinka'Epperson Lypsinka's The Boxed Set, The Passion of the Crawford as Queen Aggravain. The production, which is directed by five-time Drama Desk Award nominee Jack Cummings III, features Jessica Fontana Cinderella as Lady Larken, David Greenspan The Patsy as The King,Hunter Ryan Herdlicka A Little Night Music as The Minstrel, Cory Lingner On the Town as The Jester, Zak Resnick Piece of My Heart as Sir Harry, Jay Rogers Howard Crabtree's When Pigs Fly as The Wizard, and Jason SweetTooth Williams Things to Ruin as Prince Dauntless, with Vivienne Cleary, Richard Costa, Michael De Souza,Tim Dolan, Jack Donahue,Amy Griffin, Sarah Killough, Kristen Michelle, Ali Reed,and Doug Shapiro.BroadwayWorld is taking you inside rehearsals for a special sneak peek below...

Transport Groupwill soon present Once Upon a Mattress, starringJackie HoffmanOn the Town, Difficult People, Hairspray as Princess Winnifred and John 'Lypsinka'Epperson Lypsinka's The Boxed Set, The Passion of the Crawford as Queen Aggravain. The production, which is directed by five-time Drama Desk Award nomineeJack CummingsIII, features Jessica Fontana Cinderella as Lady Larken,David Greenspan The Patsy as The King,Hunter Ryan HerdlickaA Little Night Music as The Minstrel,Cory LingnerOn the Town as The Jester,Zak ResnickPiece of My Heart as Sir Harry,Jay RogersHoward Crabtree's When Pigs Fly as The Wizard, andJason SweetTooth WilliamsThings to Ruin as Prince Dauntless, with Vivienne Cleary,Richard Costa, Michael De Souza,Tim Dolan,Jack Donahue,Amy Griffin,Sarah Killough,Kristen Michelle, Ali Reed,andDoug Shapiro.

Transport Groupwill soon present Once Upon a Mattress, starringJackie HoffmanOn the Town, Difficult People, Hairspray as Princess Winnifred and John 'Lypsinka'Epperson Lypsinka's The Boxed Set, The Passion of the Crawford as Queen Aggravain. The production, which is directed by five-time Drama Desk Award nomineeJack CummingsIII, features Jessica Fontana Cinderella as Lady Larken,David Greenspan The Patsy as The King,Hunter Ryan HerdlickaA Little Night Music as The Minstrel,Cory LingnerOn the Town as The Jester,Zak ResnickPiece of My Heart as Sir Harry,Jay RogersHoward Crabtree's When Pigs Fly as The Wizard, andJason SweetTooth WilliamsThings to Ruin as Prince Dauntless, with Vivienne Cleary,Richard Costa, Michael De Souza,Tim Dolan,Jack Donahue,Amy Griffin,Sarah Killough,Kristen Michelle, Ali Reed,andDoug Shapiro.The company just met the press and you can check out a photo preview from the special day below...

Transport Group has announced that casting has been completed for its upcoming revival ofOnce Upon a Mattress, which starsJackie HoffmanOn the Town, Difficult People, Hairspray as Princess Winnifred andJohnLypsinkaEppersonLypsinka'sThe Boxed Set, The Passion of the Crawford as Queen Aggravain. The production, which is directed by five-time Drama Desk Award nominee Jack Cummings III, featuresJessica FontanaCinderella as Lady Larken,David GreenspanThe Patsy as The King,Hunter Ryan HerdlickaA Little Night Music as The Minstrel,Cory LingnerOn the Town as The Jester,Zak ResnickPiece of My Heart as Sir Harry,Jay RogersHoward Crabtree's When Pigs Fly as The Wizard, andJason SweetTooth WilliamsThings to Ruin as Prince Dauntless, withVivienne Cleary,Richard Costa,Michael De Souza,Tim Dolan,Jack Donahue,Amy Griffin,Sarah Killough,Kristen Michelle,Ali Reed,andDoug Shapiro.

I'm one of those guys that don't watch the Super Bowl for the game. I watch the Super Bowl for the commercials and movie spots, and there were a lot of great commercials this year! Companies spent a combined $359 million on advertising during this year's Super Bowl, with each 30-second spot estimated to cost about $4.5 million. 

A few of my favorite commercials included the ones for Skittles, Snickers, Liam Neeson's amazing Clash of Clans spot, and of course Esurance's "Say May Name" commercial with Bryan Cranston reprising his role as Walter White. Even though there were a lot of great commercials, there were some bad ones sprinkled in there as well, like Kim Kardashian's T-Mobile commercial and Nationwide's "Make Safe Happen," which caused a lot of controversy.  

What was your favorite Super Bowl commercial this year?

Clash of Clans, "Revenge"

Skittles, "Settle It"

Esurance, "Say My Name"

Snickers,...

The time is night for the Super Bowl, where every year advertisers pony up big bucks (nowadays, north of $4 million per 30-second spot) to wave their wares in front of 100 million viewers.

Who drafted big stars to shill? Who went for laughs? Who tugged at heartstrings? And who went out of their way to remind us with a sledgehammer, “Sex sells”?

Read our quick take on many of the commercials from Super Bowl Xlix, and then share your own reviews in Comments.

Jurassic World | Want now. That is all. [Touchdown]

Esurance, “Sorta Mom” | Reckless wreck Lindsay Lohan seen as the equivalent...

The 2015 Super Bowl is more than just cheese products, football and Tom Brady's smug mug. HitFix is watching all the commercials along with you, so get out your red pen: we're grading all the ads as they happen. Follow along, we'll start the tally at kickoff, 3:30pm Pst. -- Fine, it's not kickoff yet, but I half-wish the pterodactyl from the "Jurassic World" trailer would sweep down and pick up Pete Carroll. "Think it will scare the kids?" asks Bryce Dallas Howard's clueless-sounding character. Do You Think? More sweaty shots of Chris Pratt's half-scared, all-brutally handsome face. Grade: B Chevy's "What if your TV went out?" commercial is the equivalent of your little brother poking your feet with a pencil and asking if its annoying. It is annoying. And the Cloverfieldian "cut-out" of my television lacks novelty. AC/DC keeps collecting "Back in Black" paychecks. Grade: D+ Speaking of paychecks,...

Lying, cheating, deceitful pig! Anytime that sentence is uttered you know there’s some drama. We will get to the slick used car salesman that is Brian in just a bit, but first let me say I’m glad this season has officially begun. As of this week, the gloves came off and it is on.

The week began with the group dodgeball date. The day started off innocently enough in a small private little gym where the guys got absolutely pummeled with balls from professional dodge ballers. (Who knew there was such a thing?) Let me tell you, I...

Tune in alert for The Hub's Family Game Night line-up. Sunday, September 23, 7 pm Et . .Family Game Night. Season Premiere Six families are drawn from the audience to compete in larger-than-life versions of Sorry!, Yahtzee Bowling, Simon Flash, and a brand new re-imagined game of Battleship to win cash and prizes! Hosted by Todd Newton. To celebrate the approaching season premiere, The Hub will present a seven-hour .Best of .Family Game Night. Marathon. (Friday, September 21, starting at 8 p.m. Et) featuring the most exciting episodes from the popular series. second season. Saturday, September 22, 10:30 am Et . .Secret Millionaires Club. "When Pigs Fly" - When Elena has to raise a piglet for school, she's less...

You Are Not I

"Showcasing a free-form approach to narrative that you'll wish wasn't all but extinct in American independent cinema," writes Benjamin Mercer in the L, "Sara Driver's long-unavailable (and too small) body of work constitutes a minor revelation. In her 1981 debut, You Are Not I — recently rediscovered and refurbished, providing the impetus for Anthology's retrospective — Driver laid the groundwork for her eerily dissonant overlay of enchantment, terror, and tedium: Adapting a Paul Bowles story with longtime collaborator (and partner) Jim Jarmusch, who also shot the film on black-and-white 16mm, You Are Not I is an outer-boundary study in the mind's capacity to project its disturbance." Suzanne Fletcher plays Ethel, "who has somehow escaped from a nearby mental hospital in the flaming aftermath of a several-car pileup. She travels through a derelict zone to her sister's house, where the 'inconvenient' Ethel winds up in an unnervingly clenched domestic showdown.

Michelle Kemper Brownlow: I have enjoyed the new "Kate Plus 8," and Sunday's episode left me wanting more. I am a big Kate Gosselin fan -- not because she is famous, but because I admire her strength, her commitment to her kids and her resilience. I know I may get backlash for this post. I always cause a ruckus when I go pro-Kate, but when I watch the show, I see a mom doing a bang-up job raising some awesome kids!

I think I have enjoyed the new "Kate Plus 8" because of the almost audible sigh of relief you can see on her face and hear in her voice. Sure, she still gets annoyed at the kids or circumstances, but I don't sense that deep agitation she had in prior seasons in the big brown chair with the "loud breather" next to her.

Episode two highlighted the Gosselin's newest adventure: chickens!

Well, if Casey had to go, he sure went out with guns a'blazin'! But first… After Jessie won Hoh again last week, I couldn't help but laugh when he started pulling the House Guests into his Hoh Room, one at a time, to interrogate…uh, I mean, question each one about their motives and game play. Although many viewers have their issues with Jessie, you have to admit this is good stuff and the boards keep talking about him, so there's something to be said about that! Speaking of…Jessie, Natalie, and Lydia? Talk amongst yourselves… I'm not even going to begin to speculate on that! Lydia: "When I'm watching Jessie sleeping sometimes, he moves or smiles or his face has expressions - maybe he's dreaming of unicorns…maybe he's thinking about me. That would be nice." Fun Fact: Have/Have Not Competition: "Keg Racer" We used 75 gallons of suds.

Have a question about gay male entertainment? Ask the Monkey! (Please include your city and state and/or country.)

Q: Just wondering if there is any information on Star Trek hottie Anton Yelchin's orientation? -- Logan, Terre Haute, In

Anton Yelchin as Star Trek's Ensign Checkov

A: I confess I was confused by the casting of Yelchin as Chekov, because unlike the rest of the new Enterprise crew, he doesn’t look anything like original actor Walter Koenig, not even when you really, really squint.

On the other hand, Yelchin deliberately hams up the Russian accent, just like Koenig, apparently for comic relief. (Interestingly, both Yelchin and Koenig really are of Russian decent, with parents who emigrated to the U.S. Yelchin even has an accent in real life.)

The 20-year-old actor (who also appears in Terminator Salvation) has indicated in interviews that he’s straight.

Q: I...