54th New York Film Festival starts Friday, runs September 30-October 16
The 54th New York Film Festival kicks off this Friday, September 30th and runs until Sunday, October 16th. One of the biggest end-of-year ...
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Review: The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography
The B-Side is an atypical Errol Morris documentary. He doesn’t use the Interrotron at all, his tool that allows interviewees to stare directly ...
NYC: The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival starts next week (October 14-16)
The inaugural Brooklyn Horror Film Festival starts next Friday, October 14th. The BHFF will screen more than a dozen features and 25 shorts, ...
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BHFF Review: Child Eater
Creating a new face of horror is difficult. For every Jason, Freddy, and Michael Myers, there are countless forgettable imitators. These lower-tier boogeymen ...
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BHFF Review: Let Her Out
Feeling frustrated by a movie isn’t unusual. The best/worst kind of frustration is when the hints of a better film are evident. It’s ...
NYC: Check out Apparition Popup Art Show on Saturday 10/8 (Brooklyn Horror Film Festival)
While the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival gets underway next week, there’s a launch event at Catland Books on Saturday, October 8th starting at ...
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Review: I, Daniel Blake
Bureaucracies make great villains. Faceless and absurd, they operate in such nefarious ways and are perfect machines for dehumanization. Bureaucracies are reliably inefficient, ...
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Review: Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Steve James may be incapable of directing a bad documentary. His films includes Hoop Dreams, The Interrupters, and Life Itself. With Abacus: Small Enough ...
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Review: Fire at Sea
Sometimes I’ll see a movie and that makes me shake my head and say, “Okay, yeah, I get it”. These sorts of movies ...
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DOC NYC Review: 13TH
13TH feels like a culmination of Ava DuVernay’s career to this point. The documentary brings together the racial and social history of Selma, ...
Review: Elle
Elle has been billed as a rape-comedy, but that’s a misnomer. It’s a comedy in the classical sense given the events of the ...
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Review: Gimme Danger
Iggy Pop and Jim Jarmusch sound like an unlikely pairing. One’s the primal frontman of proto-punk legends The Stooges, the other’s a mellow, ...