This year marked the 26th edition of NewFest at FilmLinc, which has become the major New York City film festival for the LGBT community. After checking out the many films the festival offered, I found the following three to be the most engaging and i …Read more
A few months after Xavier Dolan’s Tom at the Farm, Lilting (by Hong Khaou) surprisingly echoes the young Canadian director’s movie. Telling the comeback of the son’s lover in his family after his death, the two movies concentrate on mourning and the …Read more
In horror films about hauntings, the demon’s job is to kill and possess. But there is always a standard build-up; the demon has to perform for half the film before getting to the killing. We might think that without this convention there’d be no horr …Read more
Producer, director and mumblecore stalwart Joe Swanberg seduces us this summer with his latest offering ‘Happy Christmas’, and once again he has done both himself and the genre proud. Jeff (Swanberg) and wife Kelly (Melanie Lynskey) live happily toge …Read more
Anton Corbijn’s A Most Wanted Man is a slow-burn spy-thriller (“slow” being the operative word) that deals with the bureaucratic drama endured by an anti-terrorism cell in Hamburg run by Günter Bachmann (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a weary, wary agent w …Read more
When we think “summer,” we usually think of a few things: warm weather, vacation, the beach, getting a tan that we’ll lose in three months. And then there’s the movie theater, a place that, during the summer season, is ripe with action-packed blockbu …Read more
With just a handful of actors and a few pages of dialogue, the simplicity of Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity (1944) makes it just as much of a joy to watch today as it must have been when it was released seventy years ago. A breathtaking new print of …Read more
LA and the Sunset Strip for most conjure up images of loose, fast living and the real rock’n’roll lifestyle. This is what Rebekah Starr and her band are in search of in their new independent, fly-on-the-wall documentary film My Way. Rebekah and her h …Read more
In the touching documentary Alive Inside, Michael Rossato-Bennett follows social worker Dan Cohen as he fights a system that won’t let him (surprise, surprise!) help those in need. Cohen’s purpose is to use a simple technique to help patients with de …Read more
The subject of Ilan Duran Cohen’s The Jewish Cardinal is Jean-Marie Lustiger, a hard-working Priest in France who attracts the attention of the Pope Jean Paul II. Lustiger’s hard work pays off as he rises through the ranks to become a cardinal and ev …Read more
