As a collective audience this time of year, many of us enjoy revisiting holiday films because they themselves have become a part of the festivities. There are the critically acclaimed classics, and then there are those that aspire to be classic – bot …Read more

“It’s not science fiction,” says Edward Snowden, in reference to the NSA’s secretive gathering of metadata. “This stuff is happening right now.” Laura Poitras’s documentary Citizenfour is verité in the purest sense, being that everything you see in t …Read more

If you’re looking for something to do in New York between Christmas and New Year’s, a time of year I’ve affectionately labeled the “denouement of the holiday season,” you’re in luck. Film Forum is holding a week-long screening event of Ernst Lubitsch …Read more

Although the buddy comedy is certainly a well-worn template, the triumph of The Foxy Merkins, is its ability to make it seem shiny and new. This quirky film follows two lesbian prostitutes, one of whom actually identifies as heterosexual, in their mi …Read more

Female inhabitants of Antarctica have a saying that goes, “the odds are good, but the goods are odd.” Odd is one word for living on the very bottom of the planet, in total isolation. Antarctica’s winters are unforgivable and unapologetic, with temper …Read more

Who is Dan Harmon? The answer you get will depend upon whom you ask, though each of Harmon’s acquaintances in the film lit up with eager anticipation to answer such a straightforward question.  John Oliver says that Dan is a “human hand grenade, with …Read more

It all comes down to one image: a map of the Gulf of Mexico. The enormity of the sea is evidenced by tiny red dots showing areas of deep water drilling scattered all along the coast and outward, like little sprinkles spilling onto the floor of an ice …Read more

There’s a chill in the air this time of year––the kind that makes you hurry inside your house when it’s dark out, or sleep with the lights on. As Halloween approaches, you’ll want to have your lineup of scary movies handy for cool autumn nights at ho …Read more

St. Vincent tells a familiar story: two unlikely heroes come together, abrasively at first, but ultimately to their mutual benefit. You can certainly gather that much from the film’s trailer alone, and the film is marketed exactly for what it is, tho …Read more

Preparing a lush meal for dinner guests in her ultra-modern kitchen, Kate (Hilary Swank) loses her grip on a glass, sending it shattering down into the sink. Staring at her hand, the expression on her face says it all: something is wrong. Up until th …Read more