Berkoff’s “Biblical Tales”
Steven Berkoff goes all, “Old Testament on our ass” with his contemporary reworking of Adam and Eve, David and Goliath, Samson and Delilah and Moses and Pharaoh. Using the Bible, as social...
Category: Arts & Literature
“Inception” – an existential heist
Make no mistake, “Inception” is superior summer entertainment. Nolan’s existential heist movie deals with, “intense sadness, separation and loss,” all the elements, according to Professor...
San Diego Comic-Con: Geek Music at W00tstock
The idea of “geeky music” has come a long way since Lambda Lambda Lambda won that battle of the bands in Revenge Of The Nerds. And come San Diego Comic-Con, that evolution will take center stage...
Searching for David Bowie in London
Somewhere in London it stopped seeming like a coincidence anymore and started to feel like something I should pay attention to. “China Girl” haunted my steps from my arrival. It showed up on...
Words and pictures: Remembering Harvey Pekar
It’s sad, but fitting, that I hear the news through Warren Ellis. His six words fire across my twitter feed like gunshot, instantly stopping every writer, illustrator, reader and thinker I know in...
“Repo”: a wild night at the genetic opera
In the back of the arthouse movie theatre, the performers unloaded their props and gathered their costumes. They weren't aware that the line in front of the single-screen this Saturday night...
“The Empire Strikes Back” – 30 years on
Like an old soldier reluctant to talk share war stories, I’ve always been somewhat reticent to disclose my service to the “Star Wars” saga over the last thirty odd years. Not that I’m...
2010 New York Asian Film Festival: melodrama perfected
With its lavish, sumptuous production design and attention-grabbing camerawork “Bodyguards and Assassins,” which makes its New York debut at this year’s New York Asian Film Festival is...
Inspired by Nazi horror: an interview with Gregory Forstner
Born in Cameroon, Gregory Forstner has been exhibited in Vienna, Nice, Paris, Berlin, Montreal and New York. Winner of the First Prize of the Festival Jeunes Talents in Cagnes-sur-Mer in 1994,...
Hotel Modern’s “Kamp” at the Toy Theater Festival
One of the most astonishing theatrical productions this summer in NYC occurred at St. Ann’s Warehouse out in the DUMBO section of Brooklyn, which hosted the Great Small Works 9th International Toy...