Having worked with the prolific Woody Allen on over 30 films since 1980’s Stardust Memories, three-time Oscar-nominated production designer Santo Loquasto is well-acquainted with the writer/director’s ...

Woody Allen’s latest production, “Wonder Wheel,” is a compelling modern Greek tragedy full of characters flawed to the point of self-destruction played out against a backdrop that flows from nostalgic ...

Wonder Wheel is the new Woody Allen period drama set at an amusement park in 1950s Coney Island, New York. The 82-year-old Oscar-winning director has an illustrious career that spans more than six ...

Set in 1950, which doesn’t stop one character from catching the 1933 movie “Flying Down to Rio” at the local bijou, Woody Allen’s “Wonder Wheel” is narrated by a budding dramatist working as a Coney ...

“Wonder Wheel” is not burdened by levity. That’s unusual for writer and director Woody Allen, who surely framed this moody melodrama ironically against the cheery backdrop of 1950s Coney Island, with ...

There’s a priceless bit in “Annie Hall” where Woody Allen’s Alvy Singer attributes his nervous disposition to growing up underneath the roller coaster at Coney Island, followed by a hilarious insert ...

I’ve often written that even on a bad day, Woody Allen is better than everybody else on Sunday. This is true again of Wonder Wheel. Ignore those mixed reviews. (One critic roasted the movie in print ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... One and one-half stars. Rated PG-13. 101 minutes. Woody Allen’s 1950s-set “Wonder Wheel” is not a great movie, but you’ll have to admit it does try to warn ...

Fate, in the Woody Allen sense, is when human error and circumstance join forces to make your life miserable. So maybe there's something fateful in the fact that ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

I saw Wonder Wheel at a screening that featured a live Q&A with the lead actors afterwards, and I got to thinking (often a dangerous development). Why is it that Woody Allen’s films seem a bit lacking ...

Wonder Wheel, maybe Woody Allen’s most glorious-looking film since Manhattan, is an idealized dream-memory of Coney Island’s amusement park just after World War II. The movie is a visual feast, ...