This year’s theme for the 33rd New York African Film Festival (NYAFF) is “As the Stars Sow the Earth.” With…
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Back in January, your intrepid Culture Vulture correspondent previewed the multi-genre 2026 South by Southwest film lineup — and then,…
The next best thing to springtime in Paris… as in the actual city, is Rendez-Vous With French Cinema in New…
Activism and allyship can come in various forms and levels of effectiveness. The film, “White Man Walking” puts a spotlight…
The 32nd running of the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas recently announced its 2026 line-up of world…
1. WEAPONS It‘s not just the catchy hook and mystery of the premise (all but one of the students in…
Over the last few years the appetite for true-crime dramas seems insatiable. With the canvas for nefarious acts of all…
Although it has turned up at the backend of some top ten lists and honorable mention on a few others,…
Who wouldn’t want to be in Paris in 1959? The city is abuzz with creative energy. A revolution in art,…
In cinéma vérité, a style of documentary filmmaking popularized in the ’50s and ’60s by the Maysles Brothers (“Gimme Shelter,”…
Does the title “Nuremberg” summon a dust-coated memory of the 1961 film, “Judgement at Nuremberg,” that colors your predictions about…
Here’s a great example of a perfectly imperfect film imbued with cleverness, uniqueness, charm and poignancy delivered in an unexpected…
When adults asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I gave a tri-part answer: “A choreographer,…
Eight years prior to the Oct. 7, 2023 antisemitic attack by Hamas and other Gazans on the Nova Concert in…