New Haven The Long Dance Of The Mundane Yale Film Archive goes French. Karen Ponzio 31 Mar 2025 · 5 min read
New Haven Best-Kept Secrets I can tell you something — not everything — about what happened at a Best Video film night. Jisu Sheen 30 Mar 2025 · 5 min read
Oakland “A Refugee is a Snail Without A Shell” Three Ukrainian artists, living in an active war zone, document their lives and practices, to great emotional and visual effect. Sarah Bass 27 Mar 2025 · 4 min read
All Over Double The Trouble Mickey 17 has as many plots as Mickeys. Jamil Ragland 12 Mar 2025 · 4 min read
All Over Bored New World Missing from Marvel’s Captain America: Characters to drive a plot. Jamil Ragland 10 Mar 2025 · 3 min read
New Haven Best Video Rolls Out The Red Carpet For a cinephiles' Oscars-watching party. Karen Ponzio 3 Mar 2025 · 4 min read
New Haven Desert Hearts Sizzle As The Snow Falls At this month's Queer Film Club gathering. Jisu Sheen 7 Feb 2025 · 3 min read
Oakland Gray in Black-and-White Coleen Gray graced the big screen back-to-back for night two of this year’s Noir City film festival. Jeff Kaliss 6 Feb 2025 · 5 min read
Oakland A Cold Open, A Cool Close Noir never sleeps, nor does it nap: matineé double header took criminal women to new (old) heights. Sarah Bass 5 Feb 2025 · 4 min read
Oakland Raymond Burr Brings the Heat as a Heavy Noir City coverage continues: “Raw Deal” gives its follow-up film a shove. Frederick Noland 2 Feb 2025 · 1 min read
Oakland “What Kind of Country Am I Living in?” ‘Democracy Noir’ Reveals Americans Aren’t Alone In Asking. What happens when democracy goes dark? Viktor Orban has created franchisable fascism, and Connie Field's latest doc shares a global perspective. Screened January 20th, 2025. Frederick Noland 31 Jan 2025 · 1 min read
Oakland Shadows and Subversion Noir City 22 kicked off Friday evening with "The Narrow Margin" and “Hell’s Half Acre,” sets a strong tone for the festival. Vita Hewitt 29 Jan 2025 · 6 min read
Tulsa At Home And Abroad With James Baldwin Three documentaries and a night of conversation. Alicia Chesser 28 Jan 2025 · 4 min read
Oakland Noir and Gnawa: Unforeseen Surprises Surprises just kept piling up on the second day of the ten-day Noir City 22 film festival. Agustín Maes 28 Jan 2025 · 5 min read
All Over The Best & Brightest Have “One of Them Days” New film showcases talents some of today’s best and brightest African American stars Jamil Ragland 22 Jan 2025 · 3 min read
Oakland TikTok Kink and Unpacking Consent: “Babygirl” Brings A Complicated Narrative Erotic thriller or age-gap rom-com gone wrong? “Babygirl” fails to bring the heat, and worse, simplifies and stupefies complex sexuality, instead offering insipid regurgitations of pulpy tropes. Vita Hewitt 13 Jan 2025 · 4 min read
New Haven Prof/Filmmaker: The Green’s Not Just About Fun Documentarian weighs in on public space debate in a city's central square. Midbrow Editor 8 Jan 2025 · 9 min read
Oakland Risk Taking Pays Off Jacques Audiard’s new film is the kind that goes just a bit beyond its story, causing one to think about it long after leaving the theater. Agustín Maes 6 Jan 2025 · 3 min read
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