June 26: Play “Mud” Presented by Utopia for Losers

June 25, 2025 at 1:36 pm

June 26: Play “Mud” Presented by Utopia for Losers

New York-based theatre company Utopia for Losers will debut its newest production by María Irene Fornés, “MUD,” on June ...

June 3, 2025 at 5:46 pm

June 4: Violentas Mariposas Screening at Brooklyn Film Festival, 8PM

25 years since winning two awards at the Brooklyn Film Festival, Mexican director Adolfo Dávila is returning to the NYC fest with his ...

January 17, 2025 at 12:33 pm

Jan. 19: Elias Rønnenfelt is “Off Right” at Roxy Cinema

Danish musician and artist Elias Rønnenfelt, best known as the frontman of Iceage, is showcasing his creative range once again, this ...

April 10, 2024 at 4:15 pm

Apr 13: Dogleg Screening + A Conversation with actress Dylan Gelula @ The Roxy, 9:30PM

Brain Dead Studios announced Dogleg will be streaming on Mubi as of May 1. To celebrate the creators will be screening the film at The ...

August 8, 2023 at 9:00 am

Yellowjackets: In Defense of the Cannibal

*Spoilers below* The most romantic, tragic, and bone-chilling moment in Showtime’s Yellowjackets, occurs in the second ...

January 20, 2022 at 9:00 am

Boy Harsher’s ‘The Runner’ doesn’t answer your questions and it doesn’t need to

The majority of reviews out now for noise band Boy Harsher‘s horror short The Runner question whether the 40 minute film could ...

January 3, 2022 at 9:00 am

January 14: world premiere of Boy Harsher’s film ‘The Runner’

Musical duo Boy Harsher have decided to go in a different direction for their next release — making a feature film. The Runner came ...

November 2, 2021 at 9:00 am

Horror villain of the week: Dr. Hannibal Lecter

This past month I have explored our love affair with horror movie villains ranging from ancient vampires, to ghostly urban legends, to ...

November 1, 2021 at 9:00 am

Final Girl of the week: Clarice Starling

A lot of my Final Girls the past few weeks have been defined by their roles as narrative foil to the villains who they defeat. I ...

October 29, 2021 at 9:00 am

Final Girl of the Week: Brigitte Fitzgerald

There aren’t enough female werewolves. This is a disappointment because the werewolf myth works so perfectly as a female coming ...

October 25, 2021 at 9:00 am

Horror villain of the week: Carrie White

To make Carrie White this week’s horror villain was a difficult decision because truthfully she is not really a villain. ...

October 21, 2021 at 9:00 am

Final Girl of the week: Brianna Cartwright

Content warning: police violence I should preface this article by mentioning that Helen Lyle, of the original Candyman, was a ...

October 18, 2021 at 9:00 am

Horror villain of the week: Candyman

We had an urban legend in our town when I was a kid. I don’t know where or how it got started but that’s often the case ...

October 15, 2021 at 9:00 am

Final Girl of the week: Mina Murray Harker

Though the archetype of the final girl has existed for as long as the horror genre, the term was only coined relatively recently. In ...

October 12, 2021 at 9:00 am

Horror villain of the week: why Count Dracula (and vampires in general) are still so iconic

How to choose the most iconic horror movie villains, and who exactly am I to do the choosing? I’m a horror fan, clearly. I write ...

July 20, 2021 at 12:00 pm

Fear Street: true evil is born from white male entitlement

Trigger warning: Police brutality, assault, violence A handsome, white police officer has a queer black teenager facedown in the mud. ...

July 5, 2021 at 12:00 pm

Watch: “Turnstile Love Connection”

Written by Izel Villarba, find more of his work here. When everything locked down, what was the one thing you realized you missed the ...

May 6, 2021 at 12:00 pm

Shadow & Bone isn’t the next Game of Thrones, it’s better

Three years and counting and we still can’t quite escape the shadow of Game of Thrones. Every fantasy series and film inevitably ...

February 23, 2021 at 12:00 pm

‘Little Fish’: The pandemic that never ends

‘Little Fish’ is a mental and emotional mind fuck, but in the best way possible. The story involves Jude (Jack ...

February 11, 2021 at 12:00 pm

Malcom & Marie: what we fight about when we fight with someone we love

I’m starting to think that the way I process film is fundamentally different than the way most critics do. This happened very ...

February 9, 2021 at 12:00 pm

Michaela Coel’s “I May Destroy You” delivers on its promise

Trigger warning: sexual assault. **Spoilers below** “I May Destroy You”, does exactly what the title implies. To say that ...

January 12, 2021 at 12:00 pm

Sex and sexuality are not monstrous, but the way our media portrays it certainly is: a rant

It’s no secret that the television zeitgeist has become substantially more violent in recent years. Violence in film has become ...

December 23, 2020 at 12:00 pm

Riz Ahmed’s ‘The Long Goodbye’: A livestream more alive than a live show

Written by Izel Villarba, find more of his work here. 2020 has forced everything and everyone to adapt to it. A pandemic, in parallel ...

October 29, 2020 at 12:00 pm

The no good, very bad, fucked up, wonderful world of horror

Written by Izel Villarba, find more of his work here. It’s that time of the year again. Though things are a little different — ...

October 26, 2020 at 12:00 pm

Why I want more horrifying women in horror

Horror movie villains always have some basis in the psycho-social. Whether they are the more realistic incarnation of Patrick ...

October 13, 2020 at 12:00 pm

10 spooky soundtracks for getting in the macabre mood

Nothing says spooky season like crisp fall air, pumpkin spice everything, and snuggling up under a blanket with a good horror movie on ...

September 14, 2020 at 12:00 pm

I’m Thinking of Ending Things: Kaufman’s existential splendor

Review by Izel Villarba, find more of his work here. I saw this movie when it premiered on Netflix a week ago and it’s still ...

August 28, 2020 at 12:00 pm

Watch: Ho99o9’s ‘Children of the Void’ documentary

On Wednesday, August 26th, hardcore hip-hop duo Ho99o9 (Horror) premiered a short documentary/stream of consciousness/montage of ...

August 27, 2020 at 3:00 pm

Brooklyn is Burning

The landscape of the Brooklyn music scene is ever changing, but not always for the best. While we’ve seen an uprising in ...

August 24, 2020 at 3:00 pm

Sex & Drug, Love Cult Takes to Rock n’ Roll! A review of CREEM Magazine’s documentary

Photo by Charlie Auringer “Are we on? We guttah start the record.” Since the dawn of large brained mammals, a pure ...

July 29, 2020 at 12:00 pm

Alt Citizen x CREEM magazine: exclusive advance screening of ‘CREEM: America’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll Magazine’

While we’re nostalgic for a present that no longer exists, why not trade that in a time in the past that offers escapism, ...

July 17, 2020 at 12:00 pm

“Book-Paper-Scissors:” A tale of physicality

Brevity is inevitable when you think about it. The human mind is like a constant machine. Always whirring, churning through ...

July 16, 2020 at 12:00 pm

The fraught politics of wide-spread circulation: a deep dive into the work of Arthur Jafa, director of Kanye West’s “Wash Us in the Blood”

At the end of last month a coalition of 13 museums responding to the world-wide uprising against racism and police brutality came ...

March 3, 2020 at 12:00 pm

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