Sundance 2015 documentaries: two worth seeing, two worth taking a bath afterward.
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Movie Review: ‘The Price of Following Your Dreams’
'My Way' and 'Kumiko': Two new films that explore the beauty and consequences of following your dreams.
Read More »Sundance 2015: ‘It Follows,’ ‘Reversal,’ ‘The Nightmare,’ and ‘Hellions’
A round up of films from the Park City at Midnight section of the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
Read More »New York Jewish Film Festival Movie Review: ‘The Dune’
In the film "The Sand Dune" Director Yossi Aviram tantalizes his viewers with just enough information and visual interest to create vitality in a work that completely engages from beginning to end.
Read More »Movie Review: Amos Gitai’s ‘Tsili’ at the New York Jewish Film Festival
In crafting a worthy adaptation of Aharon Appelfield's Tsili, Amos Gitai's attempts are appreciable in translating the novel's power and beauty.
Read More »24th New York Jewish Film Festival, NY Premiere, ‘Deli Man’: A Review
'Deli Man' currently enjoying its New York Premiere at the 24th New York Jewish Film Festival is an entertaining and humorous look at a tradition of foods and culture represented by the iconic Jewish Deli, a tradition that is fast fading from view unless stalwart deli men like David Ziggy Gruber of Kenny and Ziggy's in Houston, Texas and Jay Parker of Ben's Best in Queens, New York pass the deli torch on to the next generation of deli men.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘Still Alice’ Starring Julianne Moore, 22nd Hamptons International Film Festival
Julianne Moore has won numerous awards for her exceptional and challenging performance as a linguistics professor who must face the brutal fact that she has Early Onset Alzheimer's.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘Goodbye to All That,’ Starring Paul Schneider, Melanie Lynskey
Playwright and screenwriter of 'Junebug,' the award winning Angus MacLachlan, has done it again with 'Goodbye to All That'
Read More »Interview: Angus MacLachlan, Director of ‘Goodbye to All That’
The director discusses his adult coming-of-age film composed of wonderful comedic moments, drama, poignancy and surprises that smash you over the head. It opens today in New York and then in other selected cities, and is available on VOD.
Read More »DVD Review: ‘Phobia’ (2013) – Directed by Rory Abel
There's nothing scary enough about 'Phobia' to warrant even a rental.
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