Once in a while, a movie comes along about a topic seldom discussed in order to delve into universal concepts of love, sex, friendship and family. Duccio Chiarini’s debut film Short Skin does this, using a condition of the penis called phimosis as a …Read more
Madame Bovary is a disarmingly simple story – the wife of a provincial doctor grows bored and unsatisfied in life before her search for passion leads to tragedy – but the inner life of Emma Bovary is so complex and finely drawn that it continues to e …Read more
The pairing of the serious, unassuming Harvard-educated academic and the supremely gifted, impulsively wild self-educated artist are what set fire to Andy Goddard’s Set Fire To The Stars. This is the tale of a professor of poetry more known for his a …Read more
Kurt Cobain has become something of a commodity again, not that he really ever failed to be one. There was a lot of buzz over his name in early 2015, when Brett Morgen released the Montage of Heck documentary, unleashing the truly erratic, drug-laden …Read more
In Welcome to Me, director Shira Piven, writer Eliot Laurence, and star Kristen Wiig delve into the strange underbelly of our media landscape, exploring the intoxicating blend of exploitation, exhibitionism, and emotional neediness that power the mac …Read more
The first two Insidious films succeeded in providing calculated terror to an audience eager for more than just cheap scares. Insidious: Chapter 3 upholds this tradition and then some. Leigh Whannell, first-time director and screenwriter of the first …Read more
Rooftop Films kicked off their 2015 Summer Series with This is What We Mean by Short Films, screened simultaneously on two rooftops and a courtyard at Industry City in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. If anyone should know what they mean by short films, it’s R …Read more
Doomsdays, the debut feature from critic turned director Eddie Mullins, transforms the vacation homes of the Catskills into a staging ground for two men preparing for the imminent apocalypse. Dirty Fred (Justin Rice) and Bruho (Leo Fitzpatrick) live …Read more
Though based on the English writer Vera Brittain’s World War I memoirs, Testament of Youth is not a film about war. Love and aspiration are what drive the people in this emotionally strong film; war is simply something through which the characters na …Read more
Ivano De Matteo’s gripping drama The Dinner, loosely inspired by the eponymous bestseller by Herman Koch, explores how tragedy brings forth the hidden character of family members in a modern-day Cain and Abel allegory. Massimo and his younger brother …Read more
