Film & Animation
Beauty At The Movies: Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soapbox
Crazy people and beauty products: These are a few of my favorite things. And both merge beautifully in Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soapbox, a documentary about eccentric soap master Emanuel Bronner. I was thrilled when I discovered t...
Thousands of Stanley Kubrick Photos On Display at the Museum of the City of New York’s Online Gallery
Stanley Kubrick. Life and Love on the New York City Subway. Passengers in a subway car. 1946. Museum of the City of New York. X2011.4.10292.55E American director Stanley Kubrick has captured some of film’s most iconic moments...
FILM: Joss Whedon’s Sharp Dialogue and Solid Performances Save the Day in Marvel’s ‘The Avengers’
Marvel’s “The Avengers,” written and directed by Joss Whedon, is kind of begrudgingly good. Not good in the sense of having a clear and defined antagonist or rational plot points—but made almost enjoyable by the...
Dispatches From Tribeca: The Boring Bromance of ‘Fairhaven’ and ‘Jack and Diane’s’ Confusing Lesbian Werewolf Love Story
Celeb Sightings: So it turns out Dakota Fanning is actually 18, and a freshman at NYU, which would explain why she’s allowed to see all these sexually explicit indie movies. This doesn’t, however, explain why she liked th...
Dispatches From Tribeca: James Franco Outweirds Himself in “Francophrenia,” Juliette Binoche Shines in the Otherwise Slacking “Elles”
Celeb Sightings: “Mad Men’s” Rich Sommer hanging out early in the press lounge, eating an ice cream bar before Malin Akerman, Topher Grace and Chris Messina came in to join the party. Topher appropriate greeted the trio w...
Dispatches From Tribeca: ‘Take This Waltz,’ ‘As Luck Would Have It’ and ‘First Winter’
Photo Courtesy of Tribeca Film Festival Celeb Sightings: Walking down the street, playing on my phone, I looked up and realized that I was walking next to Patricia Clarkson (who was also playing on her phone). Also, Dakota Fann...
Dispatches From Tribeca: ‘Your Sister’s Sister,’ ‘Side by Side,’ and ‘Chicken With Plums’
Photo Courtesy of Tribeca Film Festival Tribeca is an interesting festival. It boasts a plethora of high-profile star attendance (this year’s jury for competition films includes Rosario Dawson, Patricia Clarkson, Hugh Dancy, ...
Film in Review: “Marley” Proves to be an Insightful, Personal Portrait of the Man Behind the Legend
When you think of Bob Marley and his effect on pop culture, Jamaican culture and spiritual ideology; it can be hard at times to remember that he was once a human being. The death of a celebrated icon, a premature one at that, c...
“Girl Model” Documentary Explores the Darker Side of an Industry Obsessed with Youth
For as long as there has been fashion, there have been models. From Vogue Italia to your local JC Penny catalogue, it is impossible not to be inundated by these tall, waif beauties, flashing their million dollar smiles, giving ...
