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
Oakland David Bowie Falls Back To Earth Nicholas Roeg’s “The Man Who Fell to Earth” The New Parkway Theater Oakland Jan. 7, 2024 I’m ensconced on a couch with a bowl of popcorn and a Robin Lapid 12 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa Live From The Admiral Twin Drive-In Drive-In Double Feature: Halloween & Halloween 4 Admiral Twin October 29, 2023 In director Peter Bogdanovich’s shocking 1968 debut Targets, old Hollywood collides with the new at a drive-in Matt Carney 2 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
New Haven Latinio/Iberian Film Fest Offers Honest Lens On Photog Who Changed History The Latino and Iberian Film Festival at Yale — a.k.a. LIFFY — commenced Monday night with a screening of the documentary film Una Mirada Honesta/An Honest Look, the story Karen Ponzio 1 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
Oakland Drunk On Zombie Cels Drunk Film Festival Oakland The Continental Club Oakland Oct. 13, 2023 The last night of the sixth annual Drunken Film Festival took place at Oakland’s Historic Continental Club on Lauren Tannenbaum 26 Oct 2023 · 4 min read
LA “Caligula,” Recut — & Rescued BEYOND FEST Aero Theater and Loz Feliz 3 Theater Sept. 26 to Oct. 10, 2023 CALIGULA: THE ULTIMATE CUT With special guests Malcolm McDowell and film critic/historian Thomas Negovan Jeff Hicks 6 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven Best Video Scares Up Spooky Movie Screenings For some people October means autumn is here, bringing with it pumpkin everything, apple picking, and sweater weather. For other people October means only one thing: it’s time to Karen Ponzio 4 Oct 2023 · 4 min read
Troy/Albany DIRK & Quirks: Int’l Film Fest Sees World Through Micro Lens New York State International Film Festival The Linda/ WAMC Performing Arts Studio Albany, N.Y. Sept. 22 – 23 The eighth annual New York State International Film Festivalc elebrated small things. RS Benedict 26 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Oakland Grand Avenue Barbie Line Offers Respite From The Real World The movie-goers are as much a part of this story as the blockbuster new Barbie feature film itself, as evidenced by brightly flocked patrons queueing up at the corner of Sarah Bass 28 Jul 2023 · 3 min read