February 10, 2017 at 10:00 am
Throwback Review: I Know What You Did Last Summer
While less humorous than screenwriter Kevin Williamson’s Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer still packs a punch in the ...
February 8, 2017 at 11:52 am
Faded Films: National Nightmares
This column is late and I want to have a good excuse, like I was backpacking through Guam, but I don’t I’ve just been so horribly ...
February 6, 2017 at 1:19 pm
Film Review: 20th Century Women
It’s 1979 and the world seems to be at a precipice; Vietnam, Watergate and the Iran Hostage Crisis are behind us and we are at a ...
February 3, 2017 at 3:44 pm
Throwback Review: Scream
In literary theory, post-modernism is full of high-anxiety themes, multiple media formats invading daily life and a general remittance ...
January 19, 2017 at 2:55 pm
Interview and Review: Bad Brain’s HR on Finding Joseph I
Photos by Cheryl Georgette, interviews and text by Tamim Alnuweiri.
A few weeks ago a series of serendipitous events happened. Cheryl ...
January 16, 2017 at 3:13 pm
Ladies Behind Lenses: Emily Kai Bock
Ladies Behind Lenses is a column that explores films directed, produced, and written by women who are kicking ass within the ...
January 13, 2017 at 3:26 pm
Faded Films: Purge Your Friends
Last halloween my best friend and I got really obsessed with the idea of the Purge, as in that horrible Ethan Hawke horror movie. We ...
January 13, 2017 at 11:06 am
Throwback Review: Mystery Train
Looking back on Jim Jarmusch’s career, there’s a de facto split between his films: everything prior to Mystery Train, and ...
January 6, 2017 at 10:07 am
Throwback Review: Stranger Than Paradise
I have yet to see Jim Jarmusch’s new film, Paterson. It’s about a poet bus driver that shares a name with the town in New Jersey ...
December 29, 2016 at 10:00 am
Faded Films: Straight To TV
I canceled my cable TV subscription because it was costing an insane amount and honestly I didn’t get the point of it. It was ...
December 20, 2016 at 4:19 am
Staff Picks: Best Films of 2016
Our top picks for 2016! List curated by Tamim and Will.
In all honesty we haven’t watched most of the movies that are on all the ...
November 28, 2016 at 6:43 pm
Faded Films: Get me out of here
Sometimes a seminal work of art or pop culture event will reveal deep and dark societal fears and psychosis. Vladimir Nabokov said ...
November 17, 2016 at 6:34 pm
Film Review: Gimme Danger
It’s a cliche thing to be an artist that goes unrecognized until after death. The Ramones spent most of their career striving for ...
November 4, 2016 at 10:22 pm
Ladies Behind Lenses: Alex Prager
Ladies Behind Lenses is a column that explores films directed, produced, and written by women who are kicking ass within the ...
September 7, 2016 at 7:44 pm
Faded Films: Summer’s Over
I graduated from college in December which means this whole end of summer thing feels a little weird. I’m getting anxiety about the ...
August 19, 2016 at 5:30 pm
Ladies Behind Lenses: Susan Seidelman – Smithereens
Ladies Behind Lenses is a column that explores films directed, produced, and written by women who are kicking ass within the ...
August 19, 2016 at 4:00 pm
Sad Girl Cinema Club: Modern Romantic Comedies Suck
“Women bleed-it’s beautiful and almost no man has seen a used tampon.” Of all the virtuous one-liners spouted from the ...
August 3, 2016 at 5:41 pm
Faded Films: Stranger Than Stranger Things
Because I am a normal person but also because I very literally have no self control I spent two days last week (weekdays) cooped up ...
July 20, 2016 at 5:28 pm
10 Movie Soundtracks to Stream Online!
A good soundtrack can make a bad film seem great. A good soundtrack is there to clog holes in a leaky ship. I know we do not like to ...
July 13, 2016 at 3:30 pm
Ladies Behind Lenses: Kelly Reichardt – Meek’s Cutoff
Ladies Behind Lenses is a column that explores films directed, produced, and written by women who are kicking ass within the ...
July 13, 2016 at 2:00 pm
Faded Films: Romance Is Alive-ish
Film column by Tamim Alnuweiri. Follow her at @tamimalnuweiri.
Rom Coms are horrible and I’m positive that anyone who’s made ...
June 29, 2016 at 6:41 pm
Faded Films: Heat and Humidity
Film column by Tamim Alnuweiri. Follow her at @tamimalnuweiri.
New York’s got a reputation for being real swampy and muggy during ...
June 23, 2016 at 4:00 pm
Film Review: Eat That Question: Frank Zappa In His Own Words
In Eat That Question: Frank Zappa In His Own Words, Zappa says something along the lines of “most people know who I am without ...
June 15, 2016 at 5:00 pm
Faded Films: Three’s A Crowd
If you consistently find yourself in a group of three then I have some bad news — it means you’re a) third wheeling b) part of a ...
May 23, 2016 at 11:00 am
Sad Girl Cinema Club: The Year of the Witch
I don’t credit The Craft for enabling my teenage obsession with witchcraft and black combat boots that spilled into my adult years ...
April 5, 2016 at 4:35 am
Throwback Review: ‘Paris, Texas’
We peer through the camera lens into a vast desert. You can feel the heat as you float above it, blanketed by its loneliness as a ...
January 20, 2016 at 11:16 pm
Sad Girl Cinema Club: Life is Hard
After hitting the unnerving age of 25, I was ambushed by the villainous, ‘quarterlife crisis.’ Among other concerns, I ...
December 8, 2015 at 8:44 pm
Review: ‘Mustang’
I have never rooted for characters as much as I did in Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s, French masterpiece, Mustang. Set in modern day rural ...
November 24, 2015 at 8:02 pm
Art Cures: Cabin Fever
Art Cures, our new series, offers a themed list of music, films, books, events and other cool stuff in hopes of supplying you with a ...
November 16, 2015 at 8:34 am
Art Cures: NSFW
Art Cures, our new series, offers a themed list of music, films, books, events and other cool stuff in hopes of supplying you with a ...
November 13, 2015 at 8:25 pm
Throwback Review: ‘Repo Man’
Repo Man is a weird fucking movie. This is a throwback from the 80’s about punks, repo men, and aliens. It’s not like other ...
September 20, 2015 at 10:43 pm
Art Cures: Back 2 School
Art Cures, our new series, offers a themed list of music, films, books, events and other cool stuff in hopes of supplying you with a ...
August 25, 2015 at 5:56 pm
Film Files: ‘Pierrot le Fou’ and the Pop Art Movement
Our latest column, Film Files, explores the world of cinema and the culture that surrounds it. From dissecting the work of acclaimed ...
August 19, 2015 at 6:07 pm
Throwback Review: ‘Hackers’
Editor’s Note: Nitehawk Cinema will be hosting a special anniversary screening of HACKERS. It will be a 35mm presentation, ...
August 18, 2015 at 6:58 pm
Art Cures: Tripping Along The Open Road
Art Cures, our new series, offers a themed list of music, films, books, events and other cool stuff in hopes of supplying you with a ...
August 3, 2015 at 4:35 pm
Review: Tangerine And The New Film Heroine
“Merry Christmas Eve, Bitch.” The first line in Sean Bakers latest indie flick, Tangerine, grabs you by your shirt and doesn’t ...
July 21, 2015 at 6:29 pm
Commemorating ‘Clueless’ And Its Most Underrated Character
As the internet has presumably informed you, Clueless celebrated its 20th anniversary over the weekend. While its remembrance ...
July 21, 2015 at 8:46 am
Art Cures: Creeping through summer
Art Cures, our new series, offers a themed list of music, films, books, events and other cool stuff in hopes of supplying you with a ...
June 18, 2015 at 4:22 pm
Art Cures: Teenage Wasteland
Art Cures, our new series, offers a themed list of music, films, books, events and other cool stuff in hopes of supplying you with a ...
June 3, 2015 at 6:06 pm
June 3: Brooklyn Film Festival: ‘Frame by Frame’ @ Wythe Hotel, 8pm ($13)
As part of the Brooklyn Film Festival, Frame by Frame, a new film following follow four Afghan photojournalists as they navigate an ...
June 2, 2015 at 5:30 pm
Throwback Review: ‘Angst’ (1983)
Gerald Kargl’s Angst was added to my endless list of films to watch a few years ago and like many others, it was quickly and ...
May 29, 2015 at 8:00 am
May 29: ‘The Fly’ @ Nitehawk Cinema, 12:15am ($11)
Nitehawk Cinema is screening David Cronenberg’s remake of The Fly, featuring the inimitable Jeff Goldblum as a scientists who ...
May 22, 2015 at 8:00 am
May 22: ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ @ Nitehawk Cinema, 12:10am ($15)
Nitehawk Cinema is screening Philip Kaufman’s paranoid, sci-fi classic and remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, starring the ...
May 21, 2015 at 8:00 am
May 21: ‘Dune’ @ Nitehawk Cinema, 7:15pm ($15)
As a part of their BOOKS & BOOZE series, Nitehawk Cinema will be screening Dune in celebration of the Folio Society’s ...
May 19, 2015 at 8:18 pm
Art Cures: City Life
Art Cures, our new series, offers a themed list of music, films, books, events and other cool stuff in hopes of supplying you with a ...
May 14, 2015 at 8:00 am
May 14: ‘Wolfen’ @ Nitehawk Cinema, 9:30pm ($15)
Nitehawk Cinema is screening ’80s crime-horror film Wolfen, directed by Michael Wadleigh and adapted from the novel by Whitley ...
May 7, 2015 at 6:17 pm
Kurt Cobain’s Teenage Wasteland Comes to Life in ‘Cobain: Montage of Heck’
If you are only searching for answers about the death of Kurt Cobain, Brett Morgen’s Cobain: Montage of Heck leaves you hanging. If ...
May 1, 2015 at 5:18 pm
Tribeca Film Festival Review: ‘Necktie Youth,’ another set of Millennials (rich, self-destructive teenagers from South Africa)
If you could go back in time, what advice would you give your teenage self? Presumably to not waste your formative years acting ...
April 15, 2015 at 7:58 pm
Art Cures: Exploring Ethereal Japan
Art Cures, our new weekly series, offers a themed list of music, films, books, events and other cool stuff in hopes of supplying you ...
March 27, 2015 at 8:37 pm
Mar 28: ‘The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari’ @ Nitehawk Cinema, 12pm ($16)
Nitehawk Cinema will be screening The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari, a silent horror film and one of the very first in the genre, with a ...