The Vargas Blog

 The premise of the comic book Black Panther , now a major motion picture from Marvel Studios , was to be an antidote to the racism found ...

François Girard 's Apocalyptic production of Parsifal is back at the MET this month, with a stellar cast, and under the direction of ...

Very few directors can build a sense of dread and maintain it through a three act structure like Paul Thomas Anderson . In his latest film...

The Post is Steven Spielberg 's film about the publishing by the Washington Post of the Pentagon Papers, classified information detai...

Catching up with the possible Oscar nominated films of 2017, I finally got around to see the very fine Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Mi...

I didn't see them all.  I even missed some of the best, but out of the ones I got a chance to see, these are the top ten best films of...

All hail Mark Rylance !  Four years after his star turn in repertory performances of Olivia in Twelfth Nigh t and the title character in R...

In about 24 hours the Metropolitan Opera will unveil the new production of Giacomo Puccini 's Tosca , a new staging New York opera fa...

It took me a few days to get to Star Wars: The Last Jedi , the latest installment of a cinematic saga that despite its endmost title, is p...

The new production of Giacomo Puccini 's La Bohème at the Opéra National de Paris takes place one hundred years from now, in a space...

James Levine , Conductor Emeritus of the Metropolitan Opera is heading for trouble.  The opera company announced that it would look into ...

These days we are not in the habit of editing operas. Go to any performance of Richard   Wagner 's works and more than likely you...

Matt Lauer has been axed from NBC News after a secret meeting between the NBC brass and an alleged victim who accused the longtime broad...

Over the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend, audiences in the United States flocked to theaters to learn what Mexican moviegoers had proven m...

The great Dmitri Hvorostovski , one of opera's great baritones, and a specialist in the operas of Giuseppe Verdi died in London at th...

The sexual allegations snowball has rolled over Charlie Rose , the longtime 75 year-old journalist whose longtime PBS show has featured s...

Coco , the new animated film from the Disney/Pixar Studios aims to bring the dead back to life, in a delightful, colorful fantasy set in ...

The sexual allegation snowball rolled down Hollywood Boulevard with a brute force, trying to survive the L.A. heat, but never losing its h...

As Thor: Ragnarok is poised to have a winning $121 million opening weekend, Marvel might have just hit upon the winning formula for the ...

The Exterminating Angel , Luis Buñuel 's surrealistic dark comedy about a post-opera dinner party where the guests find themselves una...