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New York Asian Film Festival And Other Delights

June 24, 2016 by Erik Schlittner Leave a Comment

There’s still fun to be had at BAM Cinemafest, but really, Brooklyn is so last week. The action has moved back to Manhattan with the quindecennial edition of the New York Asian Film Festival.  Hurry to Lincoln Center and SVA to see the latest batch of Asia’s finest movies, as curated by the nice folks…

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BAM Cinemafest: Brooklyn, We Go Hard!

June 15, 2016 by Erik Schlittner Leave a Comment

Scheduled after the Tribeca Film Festival and Cannes, it wouldn’t seem like Brooklyn Academy of Music’s annual Cinemafest, held June 15-26, should be able to come up with any movies worth watching, but somehow they do. Premieres from Todd Solondz, Werner Herzog and two dozen other well-chosen films make this festival worth the trip to…

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Johnny Simmons vs. Adam Goldberg: A Tribeca Film Festival Dispatch

April 29, 2016 by Erik Schlittner Leave a Comment

Tonight’s fight features promising newcomer Johnny Simmons against aging champion Adam Goldberg. Johnny is a rookie, he had a small role in “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” and… I want to say… “Juno”? No, it was “Jennifer’s Body,” and he was also in “Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.” Adam Goldberg has been in everything…

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Eat Insects And Die: A Tribeca Film Festival Dispatch

April 26, 2016 by Erik Schlittner Leave a Comment

Did you know that the Earth is running out of food? If you are a diligent scholar of UN World Health Organization reports, or ever watched “Soylent Green” (1973) late at night while scarfing down Doritos, you know that the human population of the planet is increasing faster than the world food supply. Clearly we…

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Fairytales And Nightmares: A Tribeca Film Festival Dispatch

April 20, 2016 by Erik Schlittner Leave a Comment

It has begun. The 15th, or quindecennial edition of the Tribeca Film Festival has finally arrived. But as you can see by my use of the term quindecennial, I am a bad boy who doesn’t play by the rules. Going to Tribeca to watch a Film is far too obvious a move on the opening…

Filed Under: Critic Tagged With: allumet, seances, the turning forest, tribeca

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Divergent: Allegiant: Teenpocalypse Now

March 29, 2016 by Erik Schlittner 1 Comment

[Editor’s note: Erik Schlittner is a grown man, and we have no idea why he decided to watch this movie or write about it. It wasn’t at our behest, so any emotional trauma he suffered is his and his alone.] The whole thing started with Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games. Comely youngsters fighting to…

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5 Bear Attack Movies to See That Aren’t ‘The Revenant’

March 7, 2016 by Erik Schlittner 8 Comments

Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear, well, he eats you. Congratulations to Leonardo DiCaprio! He won an Oscar for being mauled and very nearly loved-up by a bear in The Revenant (2015). Forget what the detractors say, it was a good performance in a good film. Of course, it wasn’t the FIRST…

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Girls vs. Fresh Meat

February 21, 2016 by Erik Schlittner 1 Comment

That show you like is coming back for a new season. You know – the one with the hip soundtrack, about young people doing drugs, having awkward sex, and making bad life decisions. Of course I mean HBO’s “Girls.” Or maybe I mean the British sitcom “Fresh Meat?” Oh, did I just BLOW YOUR MIND?!…

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’13 Hours’ Isn’t A Movie, It’s A Bad Meme Come To Life

January 22, 2016 by Erik Schlittner Leave a Comment

You probably expected this movie to be a piece of crap. Based on the title alone, you assumed that this movie would be nothing more than flag-waving yee-haw propaganda designed to troll Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Well, it is that. But it’s so much more. 13 Hours is worse than you ever imagined. This movie…

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Creed: Mansions of Glory (With So Many Spoilers)

December 16, 2015 by Erik Schlittner Leave a Comment

Growing up on the streets makes you tough. You fight your way up, and end up in a mansion. But mansion living makes you soft. The next guy coming up from the streets calls you out as a weakling, and you take a beating. Everyone thinks you’re a bum. And then you go back to…

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