“Hi, Mom” and “Mama”: Dedicated to Every Ordinary but Great Mother
In his short story collection “Puck of Pook’s Hill,” Rudyard Kipling said, “God could not be everywhere, and therefore he…
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“Fuck the World!” and the Queer Anger of “The Living End”
Victoria Mallorga Hernandez reviews “The Living End,” which represents a rabid indictment of the Reagan and Bush administrations and their hand in the genocide of a generation of LGBTQ+ people, but through a language imbued with camp panache.
DOC NYC Nov 10-18 – Critic’s Choice
Senior Film Critic Kurt Brokaw reviews this year’s DOC NYC and reviews Film, The Living Record of Our Memory, Storm Lake and The Art of Making It from the festival.
I, Daniel Blake Review
Five years after it won the Palme D’Or in 2016, Jake Peter looks back at how I, Daniel Blake confronted the UK’s attitudes towards poverty and helped change viewers perception of what it means to be working poor.
New Box Office Record for China’s 2021 Spring Festival. Here Are The Films Made it Happen.
The 2021 Chinese New Year film market opened on February 11 and the total box office reached RMB 78.22 billion,…
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, March 4-14
Spring is busting out all over New York City, with cinemas scheduled to open March 5 (25% capacity, 50-seat maximum)….
Thanksgiving Episodes to Feast on
While many shows have put out all the stops for various holidays such as Halloween or Christmas, there are a…
DOC NYC Film Festival Nov. 11-19 – Critic’s Choices
Consider for a moment what’s been recently showing in two very different movie-going Americas. On Oct. 30 The New York…
China’s Golden Week Holiday Offered Viewers a Reason to Return to the Cinema
As China gains control over the Coronavirus and some aspects of life return to normal, the country celebrated a rare…