With Memorial Day weekend officially kicking off the 2014 summer movie season, you know that the cinemas will be full of big budget tentpole movies designed to attract big audiences, but if movies like “X-Men: Days of Future Past” or “The Expendables …Read more
Nicholas Wrathall is the director of the new documentary “Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia,” (opens in theaters on 05/23, read our review here) which chronicles the life of one of the most fascinating writers in American history. Wrathall cap …Read more
“Words and Pictures” is at its heart, a rather predictable rom-com, but made up with intellectual window-dressing that, along with its stars, becomes the main attraction. Clive Owen plays Jack Marcus, a former literary star and current English teach …Read more
The King of All Monsters, is back in theaters for his second American remake after 1998’s abysmal “Godzilla”. Hollywood has a long history of adapting foreign films for the US market. The resulting films have a wide range of quality from the dreadful …Read more
Right from the title, “Growing Up and Other Lies” is dominated by questions of aging, change, and rites of passage. “Growing Up,” the new film from writer/directors Danny Jacobs and Darren Grodsky, the team behind 2008’s “Humboldt County,” is hardly …Read more
If you saw a marquee reading “The Angriest Man in Brooklyn,” starring Robin Williams and you immediately pictured a red in the face Williams spewing bile at a cabdriver, then well, you’d be pretty much right. This very scene occurs minutes into the …Read more
“Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia” is a welcome reintroduction to one of the most fascinating figures of the twentieth century. Gore Vidal made his name as a writer, but he was really so much more – provocateur, pundit, political candidate, …Read more
If you’re feeling some film festival withdrawal after Tribeca but can’t afford a ticket to Cannes, don’t worry, the Soho International Film Festival starts this weekend. Now in its fifth year, the festival is a small but growing presence on the city …Read more
“Transcendence” is in theaters now and is the latest of a long string of big budget sci-fi that have left both critics and audiences underwhelmed (others include “The Host”, “R.I.P.D.”, “After Earth”…I could go on but the pain is too great…). The …Read more
Against the backdrop of war, mundane events can become miracles. “Tales From A Forgotten City” is a series of interviews with the band members of Mostar Sevdah Reunion. Led by the vision of music producer Dragi Sestic, their dream is to revive the …Read more
