Abe Friedtanzer

Abe Friedtanzer
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Abe Friedtanzer is a film and TV enthusiast who spent most of the past fifteen years in New York City. He has been the editor of MoviesWithAbe.com and TVwithAbe.com since 2007, and has been predicting the Oscars, Emmys, Golden Globes, and SAG Awards since he was allowed to stay up late enough to watch them. He has attended numerous film festivals including Sundance, Tribeca, and SXSW, and is a contributing writer for The Film Experience, Awards Radar, and AwardsWatch.
Abe Friedtanzer is a film and TV enthusiast who spent most of the past fifteen years in New York City. He has been the editor of MoviesWithAbe.com and TVwithAbe.com since 2007, and has been predicting the Oscars, Emmys, Golden Globes, and SAG Awards since he was allowed to stay up late enough to watch them. He has attended numerous film festivals including Sundance, Tribeca, and SXSW, and is a contributing writer for The Film Experience, Awards Radar, and AwardsWatch.

Film Review – Liam Neeson’s 100th Film ‘Marlowe’ Gives Him a Slightly Different Private Detective Role to Play

It’s been forty-five years since Liam Neeson’s first screen credit, and he’s done quite a lot in that time. An Oscar nomination fifteen years later for Schindler’s List was arguably the high point of his career, which shifted from prestigious character pieces to brainless action flicks that have been released in recent years with startling…

Exclusive Video Interview: Writer-director Bess Wohl on a Refreshing Perspective on Maternity in ‘Baby Ruby’

Check out more of our video interviews on our YouTube channel. There’s something very sweet about bringing a baby into the world, but the way in which it’s typically portrayed both in cinema and in society is that it’s an entirely positive experience. For many, it’s a very difficult process filled with agony and an…

Exclusive Video Interview: Directors Razelle Benally and Matthew Galkin on Their Showtime Documentary Series ‘Murder in Big Horn’

Check out more of our video interviews on our YouTube channel. There is a disturbing phenomenon of Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women across the United States, where Native women all too frequently disappear and little is done to find them. The Showtime documentary series Murder in Big Horn, which made its premiere at the Sundance…

Sundance Film Festival Review – World Grand Jury Prize Winner ‘Scrapper’ is a Wonderful Tale of Newfound Family

Children may be capable of growing up on their own, but there’s still some value in having an adult around. The circumstances of a family situation may be unpredictable and influenced by many factors, which can involve an untimely death or other events that force people not to be together as they should. When a…

Exclusive Video Interview: The Cast and Showrunners of Syfy’s ‘The Ark’ Discuss Their Space Exploration Drama

Check out more of our video interviews on our YouTube channel. Every mission or operation has its share of contingency plans, but it’s not possible to prepare for every single thing that could go wrong. In Syfy’s new series The Ark, a planetary colonization mission is disrupted, and a crew of less experienced officers are…

Sundance Film Festival Review – ‘Past Lives’ is an Extraordinary, Intoxicating Tale of a Relationship That Could Have Been

In the best of circumstances, two people meet at exactly the right moment and are able to proceed on a path together to forge a relationship. But the timing doesn’t always work out like that, and one person being available and interested may not coincide with the other. The sense of loss that can come…

Sundance Film Festival Review – ‘Magazine Dreams’ Shows the Destructive Power of Societal Standards

People will go to incredible lengths to be perceived as beautiful. What that looks like is different by culture and by gender, and celebrities often embody the worst ideals, which then encourage devoted fans to mimic them in their own lives. There are diets and workout programs that promise participants supposedly healthy and fit bodies…

Sundance Film Festival Review – ‘Jamojaya’ is a Contemplative Portrait of Father, Son, and Fame

The first 10pm screening I ever attended at the Sundance Film Festival was Justin Chon’s Ms. Purple, which, while melodically slow, was absolutely captivating and well worth the late hour. Chon starred in his subsequent film, Blue Bayou, a more conventional drama about a family torn apart by unexpected immigration news. His latest, Jamojaya, is…

10 Movies You Should Still See That Didn’t Get Oscar Nominations

The nominees for the 95th Academy Awards included a number of well-received films and a double-digit take for Everything Everywhere All at Once. But there were other films expected to do somewhat well, like She Said and The Woman King, that ended up completely empty-handed. Here are ten worthwhile movies to see that likely just…

Sundance Film Festival Review – ‘Fair Play’ is a Stressful Cautionary Tale Against Workplace Romances

People often meet the loves of their lives while working together. An office environment can be exactly the right place for a romance to begin and mature, but it can also be a toxic setting where ambition and ego run counter to the personal feelings people have for each other outside of work. There may…