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'Nothing changes unless you make it change," intones recently paroled grifter Foley (Samuel L. Jackson) in The Samaritan, a repeated mantra not subscribed to by David Weaver's...
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Following the pallid, sleep-deprived programmers who create entertainment on Microsoft's Xbox gaming platform, Indie Game: The Movie is an insightful new geek documentary,...
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The idea that addiction (drugs, alcoholism) is a disease is still scoffed at in some quarters, but what traction the once-radical notion has is largely due to the work of...
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In an old news clip that is played in the documentary Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story, a newscaster says, "You can tell a lot about a people by the rumors they share." You...
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Dustin Lance Black, scribe of J. Edgar and Milk, gets behind the camera for Virginia, a bonkers tragicomedy that blandly mocks the red-state family-values charade. The title...
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Although originally released in Japan eight years ago, the New York debut of Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog is well-timed: It arrives less than a month after Darling...
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During the late summer of 1910, a distraught Gustav Mahler journeyed to Holland to spend a single afternoon with a vacationing Sigmund Freud, and their onetime encounter...
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The subtitle of Tales From Dell City, Texas reads "(pop. 569 and dropping)," but Josh Carter's multifaceted doc isn't strictly a lament for a once-prosperous town now fallen...
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Bizarre, off-putting, and finally demanding of rubberneck respect, this fish-tank indie never leaves a rather lovely duplex apartment, occupied by an unemployed Everyman...
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The "name" connected to Lovely Molly is that of director Eduardo Sánchez, one of the perpetrators of 1999's Blair Witch Project hoax, a marketing coup and major...
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In one of the clips of him featured in Never Stand Still, a rough history of northern Massachusetts's Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, the late modern-dance pioneer Ted Shawn...
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Like other great war photographers, the late Tim Hetherington always went beyond the raw surface of armed conflict to find a more intimate view—and a better...
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On Thursday, May 10, Philip Levine, the current United States Poet Laureate, reads at Congregation Beth Elohim in Brooklyn, followed by a Q&A with CBE's Senior Rabbi Andy...
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The Voice has obtained extremely disturbing images from New York City's jail system. These photographs—graphically showing knife wounds and beating injuries to the...
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On Broadway, we now have three Alan Menken musicals, three Andrew Lloyd Webbers, two Stephen Schwartzes, five musicals about faith, two lowbrow British farces adapted or...
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Alex Ross Perry doesn't lack ambition. The Brooklyn-based director's first film, 2009's Impolex, riffed on Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow. His second film, The Color...
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Guaranteed to make most men feel woefully unprepared for a fistfight to the death, these five action flicks from After Dark Films—each of which will play once a day as...
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Jean Renoir’s Grand Illusion opened in an anxious France in June of 1937, as wars were going badly for the Spanish and Chinese Republics, and Picasso’s Guernica...
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Considering that many modern-day music documentaries present an unerringly glowing portrait of the artist, it’s a pleasant surprise that Under African Skies not only...
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Earlier this month, Lakisha Robinson—better known by her stage name, Kilo Kish—commanded the bar at Top of the Standard while sporting a silver sequined jacket...
