By Elazar Abrahams Since opening at the start of 2024, Mercer Labs has been a welcome addition to the downtown Manhattan scene. The experimental museum is the brainchild of multidisciplinary artist Roy Nachum, and features […]
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Or Something [Bushwick Film Festival]
Or Something is screening at the Bushwick Film Festival this Friday, October 18. By Elazar Abrahams Many indie films line our inbox at TV and City, but there is simply not enough time to watch […]
Are You Smarter Than A Celebrity?: Season 1 – Review
Are You Smarter Than A Celebrity? premieres October 16 with three episodes on Prime Video. By Elazar Abrahams Amazon Prime’s new game show Are You Smarter Than A Celebrity? is their first launch of a […]
Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft: Season 1 – Review
The first season of Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft tunnels onto Netflix on October 10. By Elazar Abrahams The Tomb Raider video game franchise has a storied history, from its roots on the […]
Criminality in ‘Fargo’
By Elazar Abrahams A few years ago, I wrote a paper for a crime fiction class, which follows below. It’s a close read of one of the Coen Brothers’ earliest and best films, Fargo. Good […]
Disclaimer – Review
Disclaimer premieres with two episodes on Apple TV+ on October 11, followed by new episodes weekly concluding on November 8. By Elazar Abrahams Filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity, Roma) makes the jump from the silver screen […]
Jimmy Fallon’s Tonightmares
By Elazar Abrahams Deep in the bowels of Rockefeller Center (ok fine, just one floor down) lies a twisted maze of jump scares and frights brought to New Yorkers by an unlikely provider – The […]
‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ + Film as a Visual Medium
By Elazar Abrahams A few years ago, I wrote a paper for a film class, which follows below. The assignment was a scene analysis, a close read of a piece from any film on the […]
McNeal
McNeal is in performances at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater through November 24. By Elazar Abrahams McNeal, the new play by Ayad Akhtar, has all the buzz of a Broadway must-see: a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, […]
The Hills of California
The Hills of California is playing at the Broadhurst Theatre in a strictly limited engagement through December 8. By Elazar Abrahams The Hills of California, transferring to Broadway from its acclaimed run in London, is […]
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