Rowan Atkinson is a timeless comic legend that has earned the respect he receives. Whether it’s with his internationally-renown Chaplin tribute Mr. Bean, his numerous appearances as The Black Adder or his varied live shows, Atkinson throws his entire body…
MFKZ Movie Review: Anime Genre Mashup Brings Nonsensical Boredom
One of the most distinct styles of art and filmmaking, the Japanese anime genre has stayed in so many people’s memories because of how open it is and how it can be molded into other movie genres. Anime has been…
First Man Movie Review: Neil Armstrong’s Story Gets A Big Blistering Biopic
There was a time when going to the moon was considered the scariest thing a human could possibly do. Despite the wonder surrounding the first men to land on another planet, the build-up to that moment was full of death,…
Shoplifters is the Latest Emotional Sucker-Punch from Japanese Maestro Hirokazu Kore-eda | NYFF 2018
In a ramshackle house in a Tokyo suburb, there lives an impoverished family who steal to survive. The bulk of their finances comes from the pension of grandma Hatsue’s (Kirin Kiki) dead ex-husband, a pittance of ¥60,000 ($527.69) a month—plus…
Angels Are Made Of Light is a Devastating Look at the Struggles to Educate the Next Generation in War-Torn Kabul | NYFF 2018
The teacher tells the children that angels are made of light. We can’t seem them, but looking down from heaven, they can see us. In the bombed out capital of Kabul, all the children see when they look up is…
They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead Movie Review | NYFF 2018
During the post-screening panel following the New York Film Festival premiere of his new film They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead, award-winning documentarian Morgan Neville revealed that of all the artists, political figures, and cultural personalities he’d examined, it was…
Carmine Street Guitars is a Breezy Look at One of the Last True Craftsman of Greenwich Village | NYFF 2018
The old man calls them the “bones of the city”—gangly guitars scraped, carved, and burnt from the discarded lumber of old New York City buildings. He salvages the wood—mostly virgin timber from the Adirondacks harvested over 200 years ago—from dumpsters…