Click on the film stills for details and reviews on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which include Captain America: The First Avenger, Friends with Benefits, NewFest, Another Earth, Warren Williams: The Heel of Heels, World on a Wire, Sarah's Key, The Woman with the 5 Elephants, The Myth of the American Sleepover, Psychohydrography, and True Romance.
Weekend Movie Forecast: Captain America Vs. Justin Timberlake
Weekend Movie Forecast: The Army of Crime Vs. The Switch
Click on the film stills for more details on reviews of this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which include The Army of Crime, The Switch, Lottery Ticket, Mao's Last Dancer, Nanny McPhee, Piranha 3D, Soul Kitchen, Hiding Divya, The Tillman Story, Blue Velvet and an Eric Rohmer retrospective.
Weekend Movie Forecast: Predators Vs. The Kids Are Alright
Click on the film stills above for more details and reviews on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which include Predators, The Kids Are Alright, Around a Small Mountain, Despicable Me, The Girl Who Played with Fire, Grease, Racing Dreams, La Cuerda Floja, Winnebago Man, and Pink Flamingos.
Weekend Movie Forecast: The A-Team Vs. The Karate Kid
Click on the film stills above for more details and reviews on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which include The A-Team, The Karate Kid, Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema, Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinksy, Winter's Bone, The Lottery, Requiem for a Dream, and the Brooklyn International Film Festival.
The Cinecultist's Weekly Movie Pick: Slim Pickings Edition
to look forward to seeing. But this week? Nada. Don't believe that could possibly be the case? Check out what other early reviews of this week's releases are saying:
Mulberry Street Public Library Branch Opens Today!
SoHo, Lower East Side, Nolita, and other residents and workers, you'll want to make sure you have your library card, because today at 3PM, the New York Public Library opens its 87th branch in SoHo. The Mulberry Street library, located at Mulberry and Jersey Streets just south of Houston Street, is 12,000 square feet of books, DVDs, computers, WiFi access and more.
"Rachael Ray? We Hadn't Ever Heard of Her"
Nach Waxman is wearing a baseball hat decorated with the diamond shaped Avery Island Tabasco logo as he takes Gothamist around the stacks at Kitchen Arts and Letters, his 23 year-old Upper East Side bookshop. He is talking about Rachael Ray. “It’s a funny story,” says Waxman, describing his first impressions of the current Triscuit box doyenne. He shakes his head and laughs. “Nobody here had heard of her. We didn’t carry her books. Now that we do, we don’t sell them.” Nach (pronounced knock) Waxman doesn’t mind, but Gothamist thinks that maybe he could use the shelf space --Kitchen Arts and Letters is a very small store.
2006's Top Movies
Okay, so it's been 2007 for the last four days but since everyone's doing it from the critics circles to the awards nominating pools, it seemed worth it to weigh in on last year's movies. However, constructing end of the year top ten lists can be both painful and thrilling. Looking at a long list of the year's movie releases reminds you how many films passed you by in the theaters and playing favorites amongst the pool is never easy. It's much more fun to look at a top 10 and what various moviemakers from around the world have churned out in the last 12 months as glass half full. In the midst of the dreck of horrible new releases are some very bright spots, and here are 10 of our personal highlights.
The Cinecultist's Weekly Movie Picks: Scandalous edition
Only a few more days until the end of the year (and the cut off for the 2006 Oscar season), so of course the movie theaters are glutted with choice new releases.
The 44th New York Film Festival Begins With A Curtsy
It's that time of year again, when the New York Film Society at Lincoln Center and a small group of local film critics selects the entries from new world cinema they feel deserves their erudite stamp o' approval. As this year's pre-screening Festival ID tag points out, their 44 years of discernment includes a pretty elite bunch of films and filmmakers, and this year is no different. The NYFF doesn't set out to be mainstream fare, like the younger Tribeca fest, and they pride themselves on this.
The Cinecultist's Weekly Movie Picks: Dallying and Dahlias edition
Dear lord, it's only mid-September but already the amount of new releases flooding theaters is getting a bit overwhelming.
The Cinecultist's Weekly Movie Picks: Reality Is Stranger Than Fiction edition
wherein Paul Giamatti discovers someone mysterious in the pool of the apartment complex he manages. The trailers want it to be both a horror story and an eerie children's fable, but it doesn't seem like it could really be both simultaneously.
The Cinecultist's Weekly Movie Picks: Getting Dumped Edition
After last week's huge box office take for , you know that we're in it: the bang-up summer blockbuster season. However, even with all of this energy of over the top new releases in the air there's still some amazing old movies screening this weekend too. So you better get a watchin'.
The Cinecultist's Weekly Movie Picks: Wolverine edition
This week the box office juggernaut that is the new , there's still tons of repertory to take in instead this weekend.
The Cinecultist's Weekly Movie Picks: Neo-Noir Edition
This week the multiplexes seem practically flooded with new releases, in addition to the good things already out, so much so that Gothamist is starting to fall behind on our movie consumption. But never fear, we shall surely rally. Here's a few suggestions to guide your own weekend viewing.
The Cinecultist's Weekly Movie Picks: Bad Boys Edition
This week’s new movie releases are all about men behaving badly, and of course the women who put up with their crap. Though if that's not what you're into there's always some good Irish beer or Korean kimchee to tempt your movie palate.
The Cinecultist's Weekly Movie Picks: Everyone In For The Block Party edition
Can't you just feel the Oscar buzz in the air? The jangling of borrowed jewels and the buzzing of nominees nerves is like a cacophony even on this coast. Gothamist is excitedly anticipating the telecast like June Carter Cash before a duet with Johnny. In the meantime though, there are movies to be watched.
The Cinecultist's Weekly Movie Picks: Pencil Mustache Edition
This week at the movies, there's good news and bad news. The bad news is that the new releases are seriously scrapping the bottom of the quality bucket. How many weeks now has it been that we've had this complaint? The good news is that, as per usual, there's load of other fascinating movie related events In New York to sink your teeth into with relish.
The Cinecultist's Weekly Movie Picks: Winter Blahs Edition
With the vice president shooting people in the face and everyone still getting over their chocolate hang over from Valentine's Day, this week it's hard not to feel a general malaise and slight discomfort about the new releases line up. However as always, New York's repertory film scene comes through in the clinch keeping Gothamist inspired when it comes to movie viewing.
The Cinecultist's Weekly Movie Picks: Don't Answer That Phone Edition
With the Oscar nominations announced this week, you can expect much of the box office traffic to be people trying to cross films off of their list that they are just now realizing are "important." However, the new releases keep a coming and the New York repertory houses are programming away, so there's loads of good flicks to check out this weekend.
Pitchfork vs the New York Indies
In February of 2005, we booked New York band The Cloud Room to play our 2nd Movable Hype show. We had heard their song Hey Now Now and it instantly stuck in our head like peanut butter to the roof of one's mouth. This is how it was for everyone we talked to. We'd even venture to say that a song hasn't stuck in our head like that since.
Weekend Movies: Closing Out 2005
No don't worry. Gothamist doesn't plan to subject you to yet another film Top 10 list. If you want a good ... uhm ... "overview" of this year's Top 10 lists, you might want to check-out The Reeler's Top 10 Top 10 lists. (Nos. 10-6 appeared yesterday. The top five went up this morning.) If you're looking for something more traditional, you should probably look at 's Take 7 film critics poll.

