Brent Goldman
In February 2014, a pastor named Jamie Coots from Kentucky died from a rattlesnake bite during his sermon. By the time an ambulance arrived, he'd gone home and declined medical treatment. Instead, he believed God would save him if ...
Asher Luberto
Remember when actors sold movies? Quentin Tarantino does. The director's ninth feature--presumably his second to last-- is a love poem of that era told on a magnificent scale. The time is 1969. The place is Hollywood. ...
Asher Luberto
"The Art of Self Defense" is a gender case studies that doesn't feel like homework. In other words, your psychology 101 professor would hate it, and you're bound to love it. It's a haunting, evasive and ...
Paula Farmer
In the West Village of New York, numerous blocks down from the uber trafficked and demonstratively commercialized Time Square/Mid-town area, and just before you get to the loud, busy Houston Street (pronounced hows-ton, not hue-ston, like the city), there ...
Asher Luberto
What is a movie? Your film studies professor might have limited their definition to "a video moving at 24 frames per second"-- that's the speed to picture ratio that creates the illusion of real-time on screen. Jean-Luc Godard, ...
Renata PoltSan Francisco,
If it's July, it must be the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival—the 39th edition this year. And as always, the festival promises a wide array of feature films, documentaries, shorts, director appearances, and discussions--not ...
Brent Goldman
The build up to the 2019 version of The Lion King seemed to escape the blowback on remakes (especially the Disney variety) of “why?” and “can’t we leave our classics alone?” The marketing plan was as big and epic ...
James Greenberg
Bob Dylan could be a character in a Martin Scorsese movie. A prickly, emotionally complex, slightly shady artist who might be telling you the truth and might not. That’s how Scorsese ...
Asher Luberto
In Ari Aster's "Midsommar," the hills are alive with the sound of music (literally!). The hills of Sweden warp to the hymns of the occult. Fittingly, this sensationally scary sophomore feature warps and stretches you like silly ...
Asher Luberto
When I got home from my 7 o'clock screening, the power in my neighborhood went out. Under normal circumstances this would have been perfectly normal--the product of construction or some over-eager birds. But the screening was for ...
