Adam Driver, Jim Jarmusch, Tom Waits, Indya Moore, Luka Sabbat, and Vicky Krieps Discuss Father Mother Sister Brother
What is family if you can’t depend on them to stress you out or support you. Sometimes you get the best of people and other...
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A House of Dynamite NYFF Review: To War or Not War That is the Unanswered Question
“WHAT?!” Was my immediate reaction after A House of Dynamite’s abrupt ending, followed by audience laughter, a release of 112 minutes of relentless tension? Upon...
Daniel Day-Lewis, Ronan Day-Lewis and Sean Bean Discuss Anemone and Reflect on Retirement and Family At NYFF
In 2017, Daniel Day-Lewis shocked the entertainment world when he announced his retirement following the release of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread because of a...
The Friend NYFF Review – Noami Watts Tackles Grief and A Dog
We as humans unfortunately know the toll grief can take on us, especially when that death is sudden with still so much life left to...
Hard Truth NYFF Review – Finding Honesty Through Anger
I was first introduced to director Mike Leigh’s work in 2008’s Happy-Go-Lucky, which focused on Pauline “Poppy” Cross, a cheerful and optimistic primary school teacher,...
How Nickel Boys Tackles Black Trauma And First Perspectives
As synchronicity would have it, when an advance reader’s copy of Colson Whitehead’s 2019 novel, The Nickel Boys, landed in RaMell Ross’s hands, he would...
How The Taste of Things Made Tran Anh Hung and Its Audience Fall in Love with The Art of Food
Love is precious and pure. Love is both personal and universal. It’s the way it makes us feel, the way we react, the way we...
The Taste of Things Is a Quiet Celebration of Food, Love and Life
Love is precious and pure. Love is both personal and universal. It’s the way it makes us feel, the way we react, the way we...
Poor Things Is a Whimsical Wacky Coming of Age Story Unlike Anything You’ve Ever Seen
Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things is weird, magical, beautiful, and full of life. It’s about life, the way we learn, the way we grow, and how...
May December’s Flips the Script on a Tragic Tale of Love and Abuse
When does love become abuse? When does love become dishonest? When does love become toxic? Todd Hayes is explosive. May December love is a complicated...