All God’s Children will have its world premiere at the 2024 DOC NYC festival tonight, Thursday, November 14, followed by an encore screening on Saturday, November 16. By Elazar Abrahams For decades, the Black and […]
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Planet of the Apes – Every Movie Ranked
By Elazar Abrahams It’s been a few months since I worked through the Planet of the Apes franchise, and therefore a few months since I haven’t been able to stop grunting in a simian voice. […]
Sunset Boulevard & The Substance: The Aging of Hollywood’s Women
By Elazar Abrahams In composer Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard, aging movie star Norma Desmond sings wistfully about the career comeback she so desperately craves. “With one look, I’ll ignite a blaze, I’ll return to […]
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin – Review
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin is now streaming on Netflix. By Greg Wheeler While the media continues to wage war against video games, citing it as a form of “promoting violence”, in reality, gaming can […]
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 […]
Piece by Piece – Review
Piece by Piece snaps into theaters on October 11. By Alex Fischer Piece by Piece is a new musical biopic about hip-hop star and producer Pharrell Williams. It is also, strangely, a Lego movie. In […]
‘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 […]
Lee – Review
Lee snaps into theaters on September 27. Lee is the kind of film that aims to transcend the usual biopic mold, yet despite its ambition, it often feels bound by convention. Directed by Ellen Kuras […]
Framing ‘Rear Window’
By Elazar Abrahams A few years ago, I wrote a paper for a film class, which follows below. The assignment was a frame analysis, a close read of a few seconds from any film on […]
Transformers One – Review
Transformers One rolls into theaters on September 20. By Elazar Abrahams Let’s get this out of the way—I’m not a die-hard Transformers fan. I’ve never seen the live-action films except for last summer’s Rise of […]
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