Tulsa The Antidote To A Noir World? “Noir Nights” With Josh Fadem Noir Nights With Josh Fadem Circle Cinema April 15, 2024 Considering what he does for a living, it’s no surprise that actor and comedian Josh Fadem (Better Call Saul, Lindsey Claire Smith 19 Apr 2024 · 3 min read
Philadelphia Pearl Jam Album Bombs As A Movie Pearl Jam: Dark Matter in the Dark Landmark’s Ritz 5 214 Walnut St. Philadelphia April 16, 2024 The theater lights faded until nothing remained but the pixelated heads of Nora Grace-Flood 18 Apr 2024 · 7 min read
New Haven Deadpan Yoga La Práctica (The Practice) — the latest from Argentinian writer/director Martín Rejtman — is the story of a yoga instructor’s interactions with students old and new as he maneuvers his Karen Ponzio 9 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
Hartford Food Flick Blows An Opportunity Club Zero Cinestudio Trinity College Hartford April 3, 2024 (This review contains spoilers.) Food is an incredibly difficult topic to talk about. People talk about weight loss, diabetes, famine, and Jamil Ragland 4 Apr 2024 · 3 min read
NYC Grime & Crime: The Coolest Movie Ever Made Le Samourai Film Forum West Village, NYC 3/31/24 Film Forum is at it again with some truly aces programming. I’ve no doubt that the seats of this K Hank Jost 2 Apr 2024 · 3 min read
NYC How I Began To See Evangelion Evangelion IFC Center West Village, Manhattan 3/29/24 (Spoilers. Etc.) I am, with some small degree of vocality, no great fan of anime. I have a strong affinity for K Hank Jost 30 Mar 2024 · 4 min read
Chicago Keeping It Reel In Chicago La battaglia di Algeri Music Box Theatre 3/24/24 Chicago may not be the first place that aspiring megastars think to showcase their talents on the silver screen, but Stacey Peters 25 Mar 2024 · 4 min read
LA This Is Me on Top of You VAL + THE AMATEURIST NOW INSTANT IMAGE HALL Chinatown, Los Angeles March 9, 2024 Getting ready for the screening, everything felt like a performance. I slipped on a pair of black Brittany Menjivar 15 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
NYC The Joys of J‑Horror Blind Woman’s Curse Film Forum’s Japanese Horror Programming West Village, NYC 3/8/2024 Film Forum just can’t be beat, if I’m being honest. There’s K Hank Jost 11 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Nashville The Taste Of An Indy Moviehouse The Taste of Things The Belcourt Theater Nashville 3/5/24 Showing up hungry to a movie called The Taste of Things was both unintentional and a mistake — salvageable only Libby Weitnauer 5 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Joan Jett Blakk Spills The Tea At Queer BIPOC Short-Film Fest Black Queer History Spotlight: Shorts Grand Lake Theatre 3200 Grand Lake Ave. Oakland Feb. 22, 2024 It’s not always easy to find events falling at the intersection of Black Breezy Bratton 26 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
NYC The Tarkovsky Test: Hang In For The Long Shots Andrei Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia Film Forum West Village, NYC Feb. 23, 2024 The average shot length in contemporary, big-budget films — both your Marvel slogs and flacccid A24 pseudo-arthouse meanderings — is, K Hank Jost 25 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
NW Arkansas El Dorado Film Fest Shows Triumphs, Struggles Of Indie Movie Makers El Dorado Film Festival South Arkansas Arts Center El Dorado, Arkansas Feb. 8 – 11, 2024 Independent filmmakers converged on the El Dorado Film Festival in Arkansas to show their work Mickey Mercier 22 Feb 2024 · 4 min read
Hartford We’ll Always Have Casablanca Casablanca Cinestudio Hartford Through Feb. 15, 2024 I’d heard about Casablanca so many times. I’ve seen all the references and parodies, but never the movie itself. When I Jamil Ragland 14 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
Oakland In the Mood for Movies and Lumpia Cozy Cinema: Movie Night 7th West Oakland Feb. 8, 2024 A movie night in Oakland with films by auteurs inspired by filmmakers I love — Godard, Varda, Ozu, Tarkovsky—and Filipino Robin Lapid 12 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Checkmate, Black History Month How does a young girl from Uganda go from beginning chess player to champion? Disney’s Queen of Katwedocuments the journey from one to the other as well as the Karen Ponzio 5 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland Dark (And Long) Was The Night “They Made Me A Fugitive” and “Aimless Bullet” Noir City 21 Grand Lake Theater Oakland Jan. 23, 2024 Who knew watching films was exhausting? If you’ve ever been to Sarah Bass 25 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford American Fiction Pulls A Switcheroo American Fiction (2023) Cinemark Buckland Hills 18 XD and IMAX Manchester, Conn. Jan. 23, 2024 Warning: This review contains spoilers. As soon as I saw the trailer for American Fiction, Jamil Ragland 24 Jan 2024 · 3 min read