Tracking Shots: This Week in Film
The Wall Directed by Doug Liman Amazon Studios/Roadside Attractions Opens May 12 America is going to hate this movie. Doug Liman's The Wall is a mean little thriller set in our desert wars, and its...
View Article"Snatched" Is Perfect for Mother's Day if Mom Hates and Fears Other Countries
“I am garbage,” Amy Schumer’s Emily Middleton, on a vacation in Ecuador with her ma, Linda (Goldie Hawn), that’s gone all wrong, chimes in agreement with someone who’s leveled the insult at her — and...
View ArticlePWR to the PPL: The Guitar-Shredding, Gender-Fluid World of PWR BTTM
Everywhere Liv Bruce and Ben Hopkins take a step transforms into a scene. It's a chilly spring day at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in Prospect Park, and the two of them — the duo that is New York punk...
View ArticleCutthroat Alabama Siblings Fight for Financial Dominance in "The Little Foxes"
There are two kinds of people in this world, according to the amoral, avaricious Hubbard clan, who headline Lillian Hellman's sumptuously sour 1939 Southern drama The Little Foxes: the people who...
View ArticleTricky "Dick": Jill Soloway’s Adaptation of a Radical Classic Gets Lost in...
Quality Television must be a tricky thing to make. It has to appear smart, but appeal widely; it has to retain an edge, but not one sharp enough to cut into profits. Jill Soloway (the lauded mastermind...
View ArticleAnna Wise: How Kendrick Lamar’s Favorite Backup Singer Is Making Her Voice Heard
Like 99.9 percent of Americans, Anna Wise first heard the Kendrick Lamar track "PRIDE" when the Compton-bred rapper surprised fans with the unannounced drop of DAMN last month. The difference is that...
View ArticleSeventies New York Comes Alive in John Freeman Gill's "The Gargoyle Hunters"
When your back-cover blurbs include multiple comparisons to J.D. Salinger, you've got to be feeling pretty good about your first novel. When those blurbers include such lit luminaries as Colum McCann...
View ArticleTim Robbins Brings Hunter S. Thompson's Decadent and Depraved Kentucky Derby...
Well, we were all fueled up. A pair of double mint juleps purchased at the theater bar cost fifty-seven dollars, with tip. At least they let us take the souvenir cups to our seats. As the lights went...
View ArticleVideo: Paul Ryan Jeered By New Yorkers During Visit To Harlem Charter School
A week after he rammed through legislation that would strip an estimated 2.7 million New Yorkers of health care, House Speaker Paul Ryan was greeted with jeers and protests in Harlem yesterday when he...
View ArticleWood-Fired Wizardry at Metta in Fort Greene
We need to talk about dessert at Metta. Specifically, one dessert: a sweet potato. Only it won't much look like a sweet potato when it lands on your table, having just been plucked from the embers by...
View Article"Six Degrees": A Witty Con-Man Classic Picks Apart Bourgeois Complacency
In John Guare's celebrated comedy of manners Six Degrees of Separation, currently being revived on Broadway in a vibrant new production directed by Trip Cullman, everything seems shot through with the...
View ArticleChoreographer Tamar Rogoff Mounts an Immersive Survey of Lives in Extremis
Choreographer Tamar Rogoff makes movies as well as live movement theater. She's great at rupturing the barrier between action and audience — breaking the fourth wall — surrounding performers with...
View ArticleTrump Firing James Comey Isn't A Constitutional Crisis, It's A "Preemptive...
When Donald Trump abruptly fired FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday evening, it sent off shockwaves of concern that the president was seeking to protect himself and his associates from the FBI's...
View ArticleMaria Schrader’s Stefan Zweig Film Is History Worthy of the Author Himself
Maria Schrader’s excellent dramatic feature chronicles Stefan Zweig’s final years in exile. Born in Vienna to an upper-middle-class family in 1881, Zweig had become one of the most popular writers in...
View ArticleNYC's Subway Commute To Get Worse Until At Least 2045 (Unless Cuomo Does...
The howling you heard from deep beneath the streets this morning was the sound of thousands of exasperated subway commuters experiencing a second consecutive day of catastrophic delays, delays that...
View ArticleStill No Arrest In Killing Of Kenneth Bostick, Transgender Man Widely...
There are still no charges in the death of Kenneth Bostick, a transgender man fatally attacked in Chelsea on April 25, but the NYPD says a “person of interest” is in custody. Although his birth name...
View ArticleThe Author Of "The New Paris" Tells Us Where The French Go To Feel At Home In...
Lindsey Tramuta just wanted to get home. It was the last day of the writer’s book tour for her recent bestseller, The New Paris, which makes the case for the City of Lights as a hotbed of contemporary...
View ArticleFollowing Allegations Of Sexual Assault, Backlash Mounts Against PWR BTTM
Today, responding to allegations of predatory behavior, sexual assault, and anti-Semitism, PWR BTTM's Liv Bruce and Ben Hopkins issued a shared statement on Facebook, calling the accusations “shocking”...
View ArticleCorrection Commissioner Joe Ponte to Retire
The rolling turmoil at the City's Department of Correction seems to be continuing, with the New York Times reporting last night that DOC Commissioner will be resigning today. Whether or not that report...
View ArticleReverse Engineering The Wu-Tang Clan
Leon Michels is sitting in the Spring Lounge bar in Soho, talking about the technicalities of mixing down music through five analog tapes to recreate the "haze" that defined RZA's peak work for the...
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