Days Jawn By: New to CANDYMAN
by Melissa Strong, Staff Writer
A Candyman virgin, I sat down to watch the 1992 original as homework.
Transgender Day of Visibility 2025 – Alice Maio Mackay Double Feature: I can fucking feel you, demon
by J †Johnson, Staff Writer
What if we are who our best friends see in us? What if we aren’t what people who don’t love us try to make us into? And as Spencer (Lewi Dawson) puts it in Alice Maio Mackay’s 2023 film T-Blockers: How’s a shitty movie gonna warn anybody about anything?
New Directors New Films Fest 2025 Preview
by Gary M. Kramer, Staff Writer
The New Directors New Films festival is an opportunity for moviegoers to discover some new film or director they probably would not know otherwise.
It's Tough to Be a God: THE ROAD TO EL DORADO turns 25
by Emily Maesar, TVJawn Senior Editor
The Road to El Dorado is nowhere near a perfect film, but it’s beautifully animated and, largely because of GIF and meme culture, it has remained in the hearts of many (mostly millennials, but who’s counting).
The Psychology of a Private Eye: Gene Hackman in NIGHT MOVES
by Kevin Murphy, Staff Writer
“It’s a game where every player is a pawn. Every move is a wrong one. And the winner loses everything.”
How to Start Watching: Jason Statham
by Jill Vranken, Staff Writer
You could make the argument for Jason Statham being his own little microgenre in the world of action/thriller movies.
Queer Window: TU ME MANQUES offers frank emotions about queerness and masculinity
by Gary M. Kramer, Staff Writer
Bolivian writer/director Rodrigo Bellot’s 2019 feature, Tu Me Manques, which he originated as a stage play, is a remarkable queer film.
See You at The Cinema: this Saturday for MILDRED PIERCE at Philly Film Society
by Dr. Ashley Jane Carruthers & Rosalie Kicks
The Classic Coroners pry open the coffin of The Queen of the Movies, Joan Crawford, star of Mildred Pierce.
See you at the Cinema: Philly Film Society & Space Melt present THE RAID in 35mm this Saturday
by Nikk Nelson, Staff Writer
I haven’t really seen anything that lives up to The Raid.
Movies from My Hometown: GOODFELLAS and the Queens-Nassau Borderlands
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
As far back as I can remember, I never wanted to be a gangster.
Cronenberg on Sex and Gender: A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE & EASTERN PROMISES
by Tori Potenza, Staff Writer
With elements of identity crises, queer tension, and traditional male v. female gender roles, these two films make for fascinating bookends in a very specific time in his filmography.
FINAL GIRLS BERLIN FEST continues to be a beacon of light
by Vannah Taylor, Staff Writer
Final Girls Berlin Fest is a hopeful reminder of the ways women and non-binary folks continue to make waves and challenge paradigms in an already boundary-pushing genre like horror.
How to Start Watching: Daffy Duck and Porky Pig
by Tessa Swehla, Associate Editor
A new Looney Tunes film, this one a full length feature, is arriving in theaters this Friday, The Day the Earth Blew Up. Since this film focuses on the characters of Daffy Duck and Porky Pig, I have put together this list of shorts and one feature film that I believe provide a good introduction to the characters for the uninitiated or a guide for those wanting to revisit these characters to prepare for the new film.
Queer Window: Tracing trans histories in NO ORDINARY MAN and FRAMING AGNES
by Katharine Mussellam, Staff Writer
Through scenes based on archival material, brought to life by trans performers and interviews with historians, these films bring to light American trans histories while interrogating common narratives surrounding trans people.
Welcome to the Shadow Gallery: Nazi punks fuck off
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Website
There are a lot of ways to resist, but as a film critic, I thought that one additional thing I can do is to write about movies that depict the evilness of fascism and/or resistance to totalitarian regimes.
Athena Film Fest Preview: WE WERE DANGEROUS, SPACEWOMAN and more
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
I look forward to celebrating fifteen years of the Athena Film Festival at Barnard College beginning March 6 until 9.
Sci-Phi Film Festival 2025 Preview
by Tessa Swehla, Associate Editor
The Sci-Phi Film Festival, hosted by the nonprofit Hiway Theater in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, is a three-day science fiction film extravaganza, showcasing a carefully-curated schedule of outstanding repertoire films.
Let me see inside your house: DEEP RED and its voyeurism 50 years later
by Allie Lembo, Staff Writer
I will always come back to Deep Red because I, like Marcus Daly, like Dario Argento, like to look at all the stuff.
How to Start Watching: David Lynch – Part 2
by Lindsey Romain, Staff Writer
I’ve gone ahead and linked several David Lynch shorts (and a few commercials) to the feature films and TV projects of his that they best correspond with, in chronological order from the beginning of his moviemaking career.
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