Anyone even remotely familiar with Broadway musicals is probably well aware of the collaboration between Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein that led to massive hit musicals, such as Oklahoma!, South Pacific, The King and I, Carousel, The Sound of Music, and so many more. Fewer people might be aware of Rodgers’ partnership with Lorenz Hart,…
Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel, Frankenstein, was so evocative for its time, paving the way for nearly one hundred years of adaptations from the more faithful film adaptations to animated films and comic books. One filmmaker who has always been a notable fan is Guillermo del Toro, who has been saying for decades in interviews that…
When people talk about New York filmmakers, Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee are frequently the first two names that come to mind, while Jim Jarmusch is often forgotten, maybe because he hasn’t made much of an effort to set or film any of his movies in his own city. One of the segments in Night…
If you don’t live in Charlotte, North Carolina, you may not have heard of Jeffrey Manchester, the egregious robber who broke into 45 McDonald’s establishments between 1998 and 2000 by breaking through their roofs, earning him the moniker of “Roofman.” He was eventually caught, but he figured out a clever way to escape from jail…
Over the years, Noah Baumbach has been hit or miss, from his side hustle collaborating with Wes Anderson, most notably on The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, to his more fruitful collaborations with partner Greta Gerwig. Marriage Story might end up being the benchmark for everything Baumbach has done since, because it was clearly something…
Now in its 63rd year, Film at Lincoln Center’s New York Film Festival (aka NYFF) can boast proudly about being one of the longest-running film festivals within the United States and even North America. When it began in 1963, it was looking to Europe, where film festivals like Cannes, Berlin (Berlinale), and Venice (Bienalle) were…
Michael Chiklis made his name as an actor from starring in two hugely popular television shows, The Commish in the early ‘90s, and then, the even more popular The Shield, in the mid-00’s. He won an Emmy in 2002 for the latter, and he’s continued to act in a variety of roles ever since. Notably,…
In 2016, filmmaker Justin Tipping’s feature directorial debut, Kicks, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, notably having Mahershala Ali playing an urban gangster mentor mere months before he played a similar role in Barry Jenkins’ Oscar-winning Best Picture, Moonlight. (Ali also won his first Oscar for Jenkins’ film.) Nine years later, Tipping is back with…
Tim Blake Nelson is more than just a beloved character actor, having directed six feature films with another one on the way, but most people will know him more for his roles in films by the Coen Brothers (O Brother, Where Art Thou and The Ballad of Buster Skruggs), Guillermo del Toro (Nightmare Alley, Pinocchio),…
Stephen King is having quite a year with no less than four adaptations of his work, including two features already released based on short stories, The Monkey and The Life of Chuck, with two more movies on the way, based on his earlier work under the pseudonym “Richard Bachman.” In fact, this weekend’s The Long…
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