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Hollywood’s Counterfeit Culture The theft of intellectual property and appropriation are common practices in the entertainment industry. Hollywood Svengalis wielding power over wide-eyed dreamers is a well-established part of entertainment culture and tolerated by many insiders. According to activist and film director Micheal Rice, HBOmax and its show producers have continued the practice with their alleged theft and consequent cover-up […]
To flatten the curve of the coronavirus, all New York City movie theaters are indefinitely closed, and New Yorkers are urged to stay indoors except when absolutely necessary. For those who miss being able to venture all around Brooklyn, here are four easy-to-find, contemporary films set in the borough’s neighborhoods that don’t typically get featured in cinema all too much. […]
With all new releases on hold and movie theaters closed indefinitely, the film industry is in a dire place. But delays are nothing new to Hollywood. Here are four films, delayed in their own time, that can help make sense of your new life under quarantine. Ad Astra When Disney executives purchased 20th Century Fox in 2018, they found they […]
If any character stands at the heart of Westworld’s narrative over its now three-season run on HBO, it’s Maeve (Thandie Newton). Over the past three years, the bordello-madame-turned-sentient-android, a creation of a faceless entertainment corporation, has awakened to greater ambitions than the simple genre tropes she came into being with, only to realize that there isn’t anything for her outside […]
“I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It’s all right, but it’s already done and I want to do something new.” -Donald Judd (1928-1994) This quote from Judd perfectly embodies how the artist successfully changed the direction of the art historical canon, with the influence of his […]
Caleb and Frank like movies. Caleb and Frank are also snobs who think they’ve seen everything. Of course, they have not seen everything, and there exist a great number of movies that they have absolutely no intention of sitting through. But, trapped indoors and bored to tears, Caleb and Frank forced each other to watch the movies they’d otherwise avoid […]
There isn’t a human life on earth that hasn’t been affected by the coronavirus pandemic. For the first time in human history, there’s no other place to which we can escape. Here in New York City, many of us are quarantined at home. The nesting instinct isn’t natural this time of year when, through our dirty winter windows, we can […]
Everyone knows Jimmy Stewart couldn’t ever play anything but Jimmy Stewart. He never lost the mid-Pennsylvania drawl that’s given rise to thousands of impressions, poor and expert alike (mine’s alright, but see Dana Carvey for a particularly good one). And his narrow, six-foot-three frame lent him a loping, awkward on-screen presence that is a far cry from the preternatural wit […]
A people frozen in fear cried out, “Save us! Our kids need something to watch,” and Bob Iger listened. Disney+ released Frozen II three months in advance of its planned streaming date in response to pandemic-induced anxiety, boredom, and spiritual malaise. We streamed it the day it became available on home media from an undisclosed safe house on Long Island. […]
On the afternoon of Saturday, February 29, the Regina Opera celebrated its 50th season at Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The Golden Jubilee Concert presented selections from Verdi’s Don Carlo and Massenet’s Manon, the intermezzo from Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, and a full production of Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi. Eminent music director Maestro Gregory Ortega began with the […]