NYFF Review: Cinema just took a huge dose of adrenaline with ‘Titane’ and gasped for air [Grade: A]

September 27, 2021

It’s probably better for you as a moviegoer to just take my word for it and go see Titane as… Read More

‘The Starling’ review: Theodore Melfi’s breakup dramedy flies on a broken wing [Grade: C-]

September 27, 2021

Melissa McCarthy and Theodore Melfi have shared similarities in their bodies of work. Both getting their names and work known… Read More

2021 Tony Award winners: ‘The Inheritance’ upsets in Best Play, Aaron Tveit and Matthew López make history

September 26, 2021

(l-r) Matthew López, Hunter Arnold, and Tom Kirdahy win the award for Best Play for The Inheritance After two and… Read More

NYFF Review: Engrossing ‘Prism’ doc examines how photographic technologies favor white skin, questions the “neutral camera” [Grade: A]

September 25, 2021

Eléonore Yameogo, An van Dienderen, Rosine Mbakam’s Prism may spark an entirely new conversation about racial bias in filmmaking, namely the “problem”… Read More

‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’ NYFF review: A beautiful film, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing [Grade: B]

September 24, 2021

Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth premiered at the New York Film Festival with little fanfare—a morning screening, a press… Read More

Directors Guild to ‘temporarily alter’ eligibility for 2021 day-and-date releases

September 24, 2021

, The Directors Guild of America National Board at its recent meeting made the decision to temporarily alter its 2022… Read More

2022 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTOR (September)

September 24, 2021

41 years. That's how long it's been since the Best Actor category at the Academy Awards was comprised entirely of… Read More

Montclair Film Festival announces complete 2021 lineup; Maggie Gyllenhaal to receive Breakthrough Director and Writer award

September 24, 2021

Today, Montclair Film announced the full program for the 1Oth annual Montclair Film Festival (MFF), presented by Investors Bank, taking… Read More

‘My Own Private Idaho’ at 30: Revisiting the seminal arthouse indie through the eyes of a lonely, horny teenager [Retrospective]

September 24, 2021

To this day, I still feel a close kinship with the disenfranchised, strung-out, narcoleptic gay hustler of Gus Van Sant’s… Read More

TV Review: With ‘Foundation,’ AppleTV finds its ‘Game of Thrones’ [Grade: A]

September 23, 2021

A trilogy first published in the 1950s, Isaac Asimov’s sprawling narrative spans millennia, follows tyrannical galactic dynasties, imagines opaque and… Read More

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