Grotesqueries Week: From raining Gollums to big gorilla-wolf MFers: The villains of ATTACK THE BLOCK
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
|There are few films I’ve been an evangelist for more than Attack the Block.
WAITING FOR DALI reaches for freedom from structure
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
Waiting for Dalí, thankfully, has soul, while telling a story of an El Bulli-esque restaurant and its wildly eccentric restaurateur.
THE TUBA THIEVES builds an immersive sense of place
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
Allison O’Daniel’s piece is an atmospheric piece on sound, music, and d/Deaf culture within and beyond these spheres.
Athena Film Festival: Q, IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE?, YOUR FAT FRIEND, and BREAKING THE NEWS
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
Four more films from the Athena Film Festival.
2024 Athena Film Festival: GIRL, TWICE COLONIZED, DANCING QUEEN, FANCY DANCE
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
Here’s the ares some of the flicks I saw on Thursday and Friday nights and Saturday afternoon.
COPA 71 shines a light on buried history of women's soccer (football)
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
I'm not alone in my wonderment seeing the historical footage found in Copa 71.
Athena Film Festival 2024 Preview
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
It’s another weekend celebrating feminism and women in leadership on film in Morningside Heights this weekend, as the Athena Film Festival returns for another year at Barnard College.
GOLDEN YEARS shows how we can cope with change at any stage of our lives
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
Golden Years, if not a revolutionary piece of film, is at least a movie with a relatively radical ethos.
VESELKA: THE RAINBOW ON THE CORNER AT THE CENTER OF THE WORLD shares a Ukrainian immigrant story
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
While the film starts in medias res, eleven days into the war in Veselka’s crowded basement kitchen, the film takes a broad look at Veselka’s place in the history of Little Ukraine and the East Village.
DRIFT is a deeply emotional two-hander about life in the margins
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
The trauma of Drift shouldn’t define it, as ultimately it’s a film about intimacy cutting through fear and precarity, and how the kindness of strangers need not come with strings attached.
ELIS & TOM (It had to be you) is a meandering music doc
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
The film works when it’s tracking the two artists’ paths to, and their time in, the studio.
Walking the Lincoln Tunnel: ELF at 20
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
Even when the corniness or the cringiness gets to be too much, I can still come home to Elf.
DOCNYC: THE HOME GAME, LUCHA, THE LADY BIRD DIARIES, RIOT REPORT, GRASSHOPPER REPUBLIC
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
I closed out DOCNYC with a long holiday weekend of documentaries, a mad dash to see what I could before the fest wrapped
DOCNYC: ALAN DERSHOWITZ, WHO'S BEHIND BLACK ART, SHARI AND LAMB CHOP, BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
There’s just so much to cover from DOCNYC, here are four films I saw the first week of the festival.
DOCNYC 2023 Festival Preview
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
I’m especially looking forward to covering DOCNYC, New York’s annual celebration of documentary film at the IFC Center, SVA Theater, and Village East Cinema (and online) November 8–26.
CADDY HACK is a loving and absurd tribute to 80s comedies
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
Caddy Hack is absurd, it is dumb, it is hilarious, and it wears its miniscule budget on its sleeve with pride.
THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD offers a cursory look at affordability in New York
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
There Goes the Neighborhood is a well-meaning but flawed flyby across the affordability crisis in New York City.
Read MoreBROTHER is a heartfelt ode to growing up West African in Toronto
by Daniel Pecoraro, Contributor
This could have easily been a depressing, poverty-pornographic film if not for a screenplay and direction borne of Virgo’s own lived experience.
JULES is a gentle UFO dramedy
by Daniel Pecoraro, Contributor
Jules exhibits a gentleness and emotional care that transcends what could have been a trite story.
Flop and Fizzle #15: IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE portrays a community coming together
by Daniel Pecoraro, Contributor
It’s a Wonderful Life shows that it’s the friends, rather than the man, that are at the focus of the film’s moral.