With a two-decade long career in photojournalism, Shaul Schwarz is certainly no stranger to the violence and cruelty that permeate our world. In 2008 he began chronicling the outbursts of crime in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, which had become the main batt …Read more

DOC NYC is the country’s largest documentary film festival with over 130 films and more than 100 special guests. This year the festival will take place from November 14 to November 21 at the IFC Center and the SVA Theatre. Guests this year include Er …Read more

It’s been a banner year for Formula 1 racing at the movies; Ron Howard’s “Rush” was an adrenaline fueled thrill ride about the rivalry between Niki Lauda and James Hunt during the 1976 season. Five years before the real Lauda and Hunt were battling f …Read more

In “Revenge of The Mekons”, filmmaker Joe Angio takes us into the eccentric world of one of the world’s longest-running, least popular bands. A “wide disparity between their unrivaled critical acclaim and mass indifference” as the director explains. …Read more

Jacob Latimore, the young star of “Black Nativity”, opening nationwide on November 27th, visited the high school of Harlem Village Academies to chat with their students, inspiring those in the Arts Program to continue following their dreams.  The exc …Read more

FOX Mondays @ 8pm ET What’s it about? The year is 2048. Meet Detective John Kennex, a cop who survived one of the most catastrophic attacks ever made against the police department. After waking up from a 17-month coma, he can’t remember much – except …Read more

A talking head can be a boring thing. Documentary directors will usually break up their interview segments with archival or new footage, because they know that an audience doesn’t want to sit and look at the same face for 90 minutes. Without those br …Read more

“Dear Mr. Watterson” is a documentary directed by Joel Allen Schroeder which is a love letter to Bill Watterson’s beloved comic strip “Calvin and Hobbes”. Schroeder, who was a kid when the comic debuted in 1985, has been a fan of the comic for as lon …Read more

1985.  The AIDS crisis is at its peak.  AZT has just been approved by the FDA to treat the disease.  In Dallas, Texas, homophobia is the norm.  This is the environment in which Ronald Woodruff (Matthew McCounaghey), a straight, chauvinistic electrici …Read more

In “Philomena”, Academy Award winner Judi Dench shows us a side of her she has rarely shown on screen. Famous for her stern, authoritative characters and their stinging line deliveries, here she plays a simple Irish woman named Philomena Lee, who con …Read more