The Last Five Years first made its Off-Broadway debut in 2002 – it ran at the Minetta Lane Theatre for two months – and while critics adored it, perhaps not many expected it to become a bona fide cult classic. The original cast recording featuring No …Read more
The plot of Jonathan Scott Chinn’s directorial debut The Widowers is straightforward enough: Jake (Richard Lovejoy) is reeling from the recent passing of his wife, and his best friend signs them up for an alternative therapy group hidden deep in the …Read more
When Matthew Shepard was killed at age 21, he became an LGBT icon and the driving force behind changes in hate-crime legislation, but there was so much more to him than just his death, and in her feature length directorial debut, Michele Josue paints …Read more
With movie theater attendance decreasing yearly, and younger audience members thinking it’s OK to watch movies on their phones, something should be done to remind people why it is that movies were able to lift people’s spirits during the Great Depres …Read more
In Felix and Meira, Luzer Twersky plays Shulem, the devoted husband of Meira (Hadas Yaron), a young woman who has trouble adjusting to the restrictions of the Orthodox community where she lives. Instead of giving her husband as many children as he wa …Read more
Set in a small town in Kentucky, Boy Meets Girl is a charming romantic comedy that deals with the unorthodox love triangle between trans girl Ricky (Michelle Hendley), the wealthy, bubbly Francesca (Alexandra Turshen) and Ricky’s best friend Robby (M …Read more
In The Voices, Ryan Reynolds plays Jerry Hickfang, an optimistic but shy bathtub-factory worker who one day musters the courage to ask out his workplace crush Fiona (Gemma Arterton). When she stands him up to go out with her friends, Jerry ends up ki …Read more
At 27 years old, Justin Peck is now Resident Choreographer of New York City Ballet, where he has set several acclaimed ballets on the company. (His newest, choreographed to Aaron Copland’s Rodeo premieres this week.) Commissions for new ballets are c …Read more
It’s not often that a deeply political film comes in the guise of a romantic comedy, but that’s just one of the many pleasant surprises of Eric Schaefer’s new feature, Boy Meets Girl. The film takes place in rural Kentucky and presents a love triangl …Read more
This year’s selection of Oscar nominated short documentaries handily address the theme of families braving the unimaginable. JOANNA is a quiet meditation on the beauty of life and parenting, and the immense struggle of having to leave either too soon …Read more
