Translation : “Manif pour tous – THE LAST SHOWING”   Gay liberation, social violence and cinema Premiering at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013, “Blue is the Warmest Color” was released while France was experiencing one of the most polarizing soci …Read more

Richie Mehta is the director of “Siddharth,” a powerful new film about Mehendra (Rajesh Tailaing), a chain wallah on the streets of Delhi, who sends his young son Siddharth to a factory to work against his wife Suman’s (Tannishtha Chatterjee) wishes. …Read more

“Jersey Boys,” the latest from director Clint Eastwood, knows how to talk the talk, but never necessarily walks the walk. There’s a lot of talk about high stakes and risks and the mob (more alluded to, actually), but never throughout the entire film …Read more

This week saw the conclusion of Brooklyn’s Northside Festival, which is best known for its music but also hosts a growing film program. Now in its fifth year, the festival featured a wildly eclectic mix of films; like its host borough, the lineup was …Read more

In Finsterworld, director Frauke Finsterwalder and co-screenwriter Christian Kracht take us to a place of bright colors populated with strange characters that hold a mirror to our faces and dare us not to find ourselves identified with them. For all …Read more

One might be tempted to classify Alex van Warmerdam’s “Borgman” as yet another entry in the “home invasion” sub-genre, however to do so would be to deny oneself of the many pleasures concealed within this adventurous tale. The word “pleasures” itself …Read more

It’s no secret that action and explosions sell movie tickets, but on the one hand there is a significant difference between heroically crashing $250,000 Nissan Skylines in drag races and police chases, fictional shootouts inside the Matrix, and secre …Read more

Kim Rocco Shields is the director of the controversial, and eye-opening, short film “Love Is All You Need?” which reverses the roles of homosexual and heterosexual couples, where “heteros” are bullied and ridiculed for being the way they are. Rocco i …Read more

At the beginning of “Siddharth,” from director Richie Mehta, main character Mehendra  (played with raw emotion by Rajesh Tailang) is told that he is living in the stone ages because he doesn’t have a phone. It’s our first indication of some dire circ …Read more

The Egyptian Revolution shook the world in myriad ways, yet no one really thinks of it in artistic terms. This is precisely what Marco Wilms does in his “ART WAR”; he chronicles the Revolution through the endless artistic expressions that arose from …Read more