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    “The Cinema Within” Streaming & DVD May 20

    We were told in Film History 101 that spectators who first saw the Lumière brothers' 1896 film of a train rushing forward ("Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat") scared the audience, who thought it was going to leap from the screen and hit them. Turns out this didn't really happen. We were also told that it took a long time for audiences to...

    “The Old Woman with a Knife” opens May 16

    Someone once said that death is a punctuation mark in our lives we don't control. (Unless we commit suicide.) Serial murderers and assassins insert it into other lives multiple times. (A bullet, knife, poison–they all insert the period.) I've never liked films or TV shows about hit men. I don't find any humor or irony in the occupation and I refuse to watch them...
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    Brooklyn Horror Film Festival Oct. 13-20

    The 7th annual Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, presented by Shudder, will be held October 13th to the 20th with screenings at Nitehawk Cinema, Williamsburg...

    RIP JLG

    I remember the day in my freshman year of college when I discovered the work of Jean-Luc Godard. I gathered up all the change...

    Top 10 Mystery Novels: Oct. 18, 2021

    Here are the top ten bestselling mystery novels for this week, according to Publishers Weekly.