Tag: Brooklyn
An American Pickle: Too Saccharine To Be Briny
As Seth Rogen tries his hand at what Lindsay Lohan pulled as Hallie Parker and Annie James in The Parent Trap already, we’re given a [Read More…]
Vampire in Brooklyn Corroborates That All the Freek-A-Leeks Flock There
Even before Tracy Jordan was reminding us that “Freaky deakies need love too,” there was Eddie Murphy as Maximillian crashing an unmanned boat into the [Read More…]
Letting Go of Your Old Self: Tully
One of the few enviable human qualities is a predilection to kick into survival mode and the ability to move on from shattering traumas. We’re [Read More…]
From New York to Italy and Back Again: Master of None Season Two
It’s a bit uncanny, really, that when the first season of Master of None came out, I was in Milan. Now, here I am for [Read More…]
Reel Talk With Matthew Conboy of Goodnight Brooklyn
Matthew Conboy is the director of Goodnight Brooklyn: The Story of Death by Audio. As co-founder of the venue, his deeply personal documentary highlights the [Read More…]
Goodnight to All That: Matthew Conboy’s Goodnight Brooklyn Puts Death by Audio to Bed for Good
It seems like whenever someone moves to New York and stays in it for even just three years, everything they knew to be good and [Read More…]
The Beauty of “Brooklyn”
To be an immigrant in 50s-era Brooklyn was hardly for the faint of heart. The passage to America alone, followed by the harsh appraisal at [Read More…]
Golden Globes 2016: More Interesting Than Last Year
Award shows can always go one of two ways: utterly drab or a complete shit show. In the case of this year’s Golden Globe Awards, [Read More…]
Nasty Baby Takes Many Nasty Turns
Chilean writer-director Sebastián Silva, who came to prominence with The Maid and Crystal Fairy & The Magical Cactus, has created an intriguing addition to his canon in [Read More…]
Christmas, Again: A Modern Scrooge Story Set in Brooklyn
When you’re acting as a shill for the sale of Christmas trees at the Greenpoint/Williamsburg border, there’s really no reason to be particularly happy about the [Read More…]