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‘Taking Venice,’ A Look Inside The Art World’s Politics

Amei Wallach is an award-winning art critic who, as a filmmaker, has often brought to the silver screen art history with acclaimed movies such as Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress and The Tangerine and Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Enter Here. Her latest cinematic oeuvre focuses on a peculiar story revolving around the oldest, largest…

Back to Black: Marisa Abela Embodies Amy Winehouse in Biopic

Photo by Courtesy of Dean Rogers/Focus Fe/Courtesy of Dean Rogers/Focus F – © 2024 Focus Features, LLC.   The explosive lives of famously troubled but equally gifted artists are often embraced by their industries for one thing: their ability to sell their work for their representatives’ financial gain. Amy Winehouse was one such talented musician whose…

‘Ashley Madison: Sex, Lies & Scandal,’ A Perspicacious Miniseries

Move over Tinder, Bumble, Hinge, eHarmony, Meetic, OkCupid, Happn, Match and Raya! The position of the most controversial Dating App of our time is conquered by Ashley Madison: a membership website service based in Canada, currently present in 53 countries. This platform addresses married couples who want to have an affair. What’s in a name?…

Unfrosted: Jerry Seinfeld Shines in Another Absurd Surrealist Comedy

©Photo by John P. Johnson / Netflix – © 2024 Netflix, Inc. Jerry Seinfeld has repeatedly proved to be one thing over the course of his decades-long career in Hollywood: a comedic innovator who pays manic tribute to his generation’s pop culture. Starting with his hit eponymous, semi-autobiographical 1990s sitcom, the Emmy-winning actor has soared in…

Daniel Yoon’s Ultra-Independent East Bay

©Photo by Daniel Yoon, Level 33 Entertainment  A mid-life crisis is hard enough without losing your sanity. Jack Lee worries about his state of mind, but from time to time he also suspects the ringing in his head might signify something beyond the boundaries of our assumed world. Regardless, his depressing life is an absolute…

‘Let It Be,’ The Beatles Film Is Restored But Unengaging

If you recall Peter Jackson’s multiple Emmy Award-winning docuseries, The Beatles: Get Back, be prepared for what inspired it! Michael Lindsay-Hogg, over fifty years ago, made the original 1970 film about The Beatles, called Let It Be, which is now available on Disney+ in its restored version. The film opens with a conversation between Jackson…

The Idea of You : A Couple’s Night of “Stream and Chill”

Photo by Courtesy of Prime Video – © Prime Video Solene Marchand is an early Millennial, so she can maybe partially relate to Gen X. Hayes Campbell is Gen Z, but he is relatively early Gen Z, for what that is worth. There is only sixteen years difference between them, in contrast to the full two…

The Fall Guy Video Review / Above the Line vs Below the Line Episodes 40

Check out more of our video interviews on our YouTube channel. Film Critic : Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi Works as film critic and journalist who covers stories about culture and sustainability. With a degree in Political Sciences, a Master’s in Screenwriting & Film Production, and studies at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute, Chiara has…

Wildcat : Ethan Hawke Delivers a Stunning Biopic of Flannery O’Connor

©Courtesy of Oscilloscope The best compliment I can give to the heartbreaking biopic directed by Ethan Hawke is that five seconds after the ending titles started I was already researching the short stories and novels published by Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964). From the Queens Public Library, I borrowed her first book Wise Blood by the way. …

The Roundup: Punishment: Don Lee’s Beast Cop is Back

©Courtesy of Capelight Pictures International Det. Ma Seuk-do makes Jack Reacher and the Rock look puny and weak. South Korea’s criminal underworld refers to him as the “Beast Cop,” but he is an old softie at heart. When the mother of a murdered programmer commits suicide out of grief, he takes it hard, so he…

‘The Contestant,’ A Look Into the Origins Of Japanese Reality TV

©Courtesy of Hulu Sensationalism is the bread and butter of today’s media and entertainment industry. The competition for higher sales in the field of communications can be traced back to the circulation war between Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World and William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal during the mid-1890s. This gave wave to what was…