Gamergate’s Ghostbusters box office bust
As reported on breitbart.com, Sony’s Ghostbusters opened this weekend to a slew of empty seats in empty theaters, taking in an impressive $46 million dollars from the men of various...
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Shakespeare in an Xbox?: A Chat with EK Theater’s Eddie Kim
I first encountered the work of Eddie Kim and his EK Theater — comprised of students from the Pierrepont School in Westport, CT — over half a decade ago at The Brick Theater in Williamsburg,...
Alan Clarke Retrospective: The Firm (director’s cut)
Let’s begin, at the end of the 1980s and the world of The Firm. The beautiful game is being defiled by the English disease, pumped around the body politic by Football Specials and Intercity trains,...
Tulip O’Hare: The new iteration of women and violence in media
AMC's Preacher wouldn't have been possible without Hannibal and True Blood before it — it's an orgiastic, perplexing, sometimes confusing celebration of violence and mayhem. Trying to sum up...
Feminist Filmmaking Shines at The Human Rights Watch Film Festival
Running June 10-19th at NYC’s Film Society of Lincoln Center and the IFC Center, this year’s Human Rights Watch Film Festival is spotlighting films both by female documentarians (over half the...
Exploring gender identity at the Trans Theatre Festival
For nearly a decade and a half, The Brick Theater in Williamsburg, Brooklyn has been a hub of cutting edgy innovation. (Just check out my interview with Mariah MacCarthy about last year’s inaugural...
Lady Dynamite on Netflix gets mental illness right
Alternative comedian Maria Bamford’s stand-up has never shied away from her experiences with mental illness, nor from her off-the-wall musings on social mores and human behavior, but after her...
Marvel finally gets the Punisher right
As the second season of Daredevil, the Netflix adaptation of the hit Marvel Comics character, was released, Jon Bernthal, who plays Frank Castle, the Punisher, said to press that his character is...
Andreas Koefoed on At Home in the World
I first met Danish director Andreas Koefoed remotely when I programmed his nonfiction tale of international intrigue The Arms Drop at the 2015 Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival. Later I had the...
Taking a closer look at Hitchcock and Truffaut
What better movie is there than Kent Jones’s Hitchcock/Truffaut documentary to prematurely break my sabbatical from film criticism? Truffaut’s 1962 in depth interviews with Hitchcock took over...