Playwright and director Adia Reid talks to us about her family’s journey from Costa Rica and Jamaica to […]
Author: Alex Sayf Cummings
Like so many things in American life, this momentous and catastrophic event should teach us a lot but has instead gone down the memory hole.
In the 1979 cult classic The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh, a down-on-their-luck basketball team called the Pittsburgh Pythons is desperate for a change of fortune. They lose constantly, despite being led by the legendary Julius “Dr. J” Erving, and in a strange twist they turn to an astrologer (Stockard Channing) for help…
Panic in Echo Park provides a fascinating slice-of-life take on 1970s LA, as well as Hollywood’s awkward effort to be more inclusive and with-it.
They say that comedy is tragedy plus time; one could say the same for nostalgia, but in any case, the key ingredient is time.
With nurses in New York City out on strike, we look back at our December 2020 interview with Tanya Martinez.
Baumbach’s ambitious adaptation of a book by a difficult-to-adapt author comes up short.
Guillermo del Toro does the seemingly impossible by making Pinocchio interesting and heartstring-pulling.